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Horse Rider Spurred On To Start Online Business

FINDING jodhpurs that fitted proved difficult for horse rider Sam Ollis – so she launched her own business selling fitness wear in larger sizes.

Sam, 46, used redundancy money to set up online firm Curvy Kit and now hopes to encourage other larger people to get active.

She had been working as a radio controller in a police control room but took a deal to leave and focused on growing her business while working as a groom at stables where she keeps her horse Murphy.

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FUNDING PROJECT TO REVITALISE FIFE’S HIGH STREETS AWARDS 100TH GRANT

A butcher has become the 100th enterprise to benefit from a funding campaign that has invested over £200k to help revitalise and support businesses based on Fife’s High Streets.

Leuchars Quality Meats, which has a shop in Leuchars and another in Newport, has received £4.5k from the Town Centre Business Support Fund administered by Business Gateway Fife on behalf of Fife Council’s Town Centre Development Unit.

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Vollood Hairdressing Salon Craig Hutchison

Dunfermline salon aims to be a cut above the rest

Following 10 years working in salons both at home and abroad, hairdresser, Craig Hutchison, knew that the time was right to open his own business.

Launched in late 2014, with support from Business Gateway Fife, Dunfermline based, Vollood Hairdressing (www.facebook.com/pages/Vollood-Hairdressing) offers customers a range of styling services and exclusive Aveda products, from tailor made premises in Bridge Street.

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The Furniture Plus Team

Business Gateway Helps Thriving Social Enterprise

Business is booming for a Fife social enterprise which helped divert over 800 tonnes of furniture and electrical goods from landfill last year.

Furniture Plus, a charity-based reuse and recycle organisation, also undertook 7,500 collections throughout Fife and saw sales remain steady at around £500,000.

Now the enterprise, which has been helped by Business Gateway Fife, plans to further develop its training programme and open an IT suite by this summer at its Dysart base, as well as transfer its Inverkeithing warehouse and shop to Dunfermline by the end of the year.

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