‘I used my redundancy money from British Airways to start a kids business’

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“Taking redundancy was a tough choice, however it was the right one.”

“Once I found the right manufacturer, they told me I’d need CAD designs from which the steel machinery would be made, so I created a prototype and took it to the streets of London, thrusting it into parents’ hands for feedback! Naively, I thought I’d have it done in less than a year. But as I was creating a blueprint from scratch, there was a lot of back and forth, testing and failure. It took three years to make it happen. Along the way though, l was spurred on by some great people.

 

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