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Sophie Sampson
27th June 2008 15:34

Celebrating bespoke jewellery

 

Four of us bunked off work early yesterday to go to the finals of the FSB British Small Business Champions Awards in Stratford. We were one of six finalists in the Central region and got treated to a nice dinner and lots of speeches.

We didn't actually win in the end - the award went to a family firm of costermongers whose fourth generation has brought a whole new area of business by selling directly to offices over the internet, which sounds great. The young man who won had very sweetly brought his parents along as his guests.

Harriet met a sea captain, who was the after dinner speaker, Captain William Wells.

We were also introduced to the Mayor of Stratford, who easily out-jewelleried everyone else in the room with her mayorial chain. Inevitably, she and Harriet were soon talking about how you could redesign it to make it more comfortable and easy to wear.

Apparently you have to have dresses specially made to go underneath and there is a discreet underpinning to keep it sitting correctly, which is a shame as it must make mayorial duties harder. Perhaps we think about jewellery too much (is that even possible?) but I know Harriet will have already redesigned it in her head...

Well, a lovely time was had by all, we met some interesting people and we got some great feedback about how we could have made our entry the one. Getting that far was a great testament to the fact that we do what we do really well, and give something back to the community we work in. Well done us.

Sophie Sampson
 

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