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Business Quarter:
Summer 10: issue Five
As is entirely appropriate for summer, the season of growth, there is a distinctly agricultural and rural feel to this issue. That starts with Peter Richardson, the Newby Wiske farmer who is bucking the trend of falling organic sales that have been recorded elsewhere in the country. Instead, Peter and his colleagues are taking the northern section of the mighty Riverford organic vegetable box delivery system into new and as yet untapped areas.
Then there's Vicky Godliman, the overall winner of this year's inaugural Rising Stars awards. Vicky might appear to be a financial controller, and certainly that is what she is by day, but back at home she keeps a menagerie of animals including hens, and both she and her husband Mark are keen horse riders who take part in event trials. That was, in fact, how they met.
It all goes to show what a thorough exposure to the fresh air can do to your wise business thinking. But we go further too in exploring a new venture that aims to create more renewable energy in the country by making more use of the unjustly neglected weirs you will find in just about every stream and river in the north of England. They are relics of our glorious industrial past.
But there's another theme crossing here too, and that is one of women in business. Alongside Vicky, we have as our companion over the lunch table one Claire Young, the runner-up in the last but one series of The Apprentice. Aside from coming back to live in Yorkshire, Claire is fronting an organisation aimed at encouraging teenage girls to aim higher. As someone who gained a famous reputation for answering back to Sir Alan, she shows she is not afraid to aim high herself.
Cathy McConaghy should know about aiming high, too. She used to run one of Yorkshire's most successful exhibitions, but in this issue she explains why she has given all that up and is instead launching a catering business. As you would expect from someone with an eye for flair, it's not your average sandwich van. And it's no less entrepreneurial either.
Our final entrepreneur might be a man, but Jaz Athwal is no exception to our theme of fresh thinking, not least in the way he has led a life that has involved arriving in England at the age of four, going on to have a successful track record in – of all things – rugby league, building up a successful property business, and now acting as ambassador extraordinaire for the Asian business community.
This issue we look too at Finance Yorkshire, the newly-launched organisation that has – 90m to invest in Yorkshire businesses. Can it be an example of fresh thinking too? Read and find out.
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