The award-winning entrepreneur and founder of Shea Radiance, Funlayo Alabi, discusses her Nigerian childhood, mixing up shea butter on the kitchen table, her now global, multi-million dollar business and protecting the women who pick the nuts…
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Mornings
You may well be smugly hangover-free but for the rest of us, here’s a recipe from Richard Tring, the owner of Bristol’s Red Light bar, for the perfect Bloody Mary. Bottoms up!
Work Life
She left her job as an art teacher to set up a shop in east London selling ethical, creative clothing, toys, books and accessories for 0-6 year-olds. Here, Angie talks kids’ fashion and the cost of London living…
Family
Clary & Peg offer vintage-inspired maternity clothes that can be worn before, during and after pregnancy. The founders – Edwina Gieve and Johanna Kociejowski, friends from antenatal class – explain the business…
Work Life
Raised in Lithuania, now living in Bristol with her three-year-old daughter Sequoia and two kittens – Egle, 32, works as a freelance photographer; capturing the innocence of childhood and the romance of weddings…
Work Life
Working as a self-employed TV producer on documentaries like One Born Every Minute means the return to work for Cat Green is somewhat more complicated. She shares her conundrum…
Wellbeing
From a childhood on the rugged Scottish coast, to seven years in Cyprus and now settled in Lewes, where she raised five children and set up her business – Amanda Saurin – apothecary, perfumier, homeopath, doula – on her wild life…
Family
Childcare.co.uk – the UK’s largest online community of parents and childcare providers – explain the different options: childminder, nanny, nursery, au pair and babysitter, including the average cost and what other people are opting for
Work Life
She worked for Alexander McQueen before launching her own label, creating luxury scarves from intricate animal-themed illustrations. Now Sabina Savage is stocked in Heal’s and Bloomingdales. She tells us about her fashion world…
Work Life
Amelia Gregory: editor of Amelia’s Magazine, publisher of a new colouring-in book featuring 40 artists from around the globe and single mum to a three-year-old and three-month-old talks family, crowdfunding and creativity