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<strong>July</strong> <strong>2014</strong> Edition<br />
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Interview with Deano from Tokyo Tattoo - Page 16<br />
Feature on Addiction & Recovery - Page 11<br />
Interview with Praveena Thakor from The Laundry Lounge - Page 4<br />
Hollie Gazard Trust Feature - Page 22<br />
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PAGE 7 weddings<br />
PAGE 18 charity<br />
PAGE 25 recruitment<br />
PAGE 8 local hero<br />
PAGE 19 accountants<br />
PAGE 28 charity<br />
PAGE 13 business security PAGE 20 photography PAGE 29 animal shelter<br />
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Hello and Welcome to <strong>July</strong>’s edition of<br />
<strong>Unique</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>, thank you for sharing<br />
June’s magazine on Twitter @<strong>Unique</strong>Chelt<br />
and for interacting with the magazine.<br />
At the time of writing this introduction<br />
England have already lost to Italy in the<br />
World Cup Groannnn !! About to play<br />
Uruguay which by the time of reading this<br />
I hope we have beaten Suarez’s mob along<br />
with Costa Rica to sail into the 2nd round<br />
#Fingerscrossed :)<br />
We have got some great features this<br />
month including from two business owners<br />
with real vision: Deano from Tokyo Tattoo<br />
and Praveena Thakor from Laundry<br />
Lounge. Also we have a heart felt feature<br />
on Hollie Gazzard Trust set up in her<br />
memory and a gritty tale on Addiction and<br />
Recovery.<br />
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<strong>Unique</strong> Business Stories:<br />
Praveena Thakor<br />
The Laundry Lounge<br />
I had the pleasure of meeting the up and<br />
coming business owner of the fabulous<br />
Laundry Lounge on the Bristol Road in<br />
Gloucester and services Gloucester,<br />
Quedgeley and Hardwicke areas to name<br />
just a few. The Laundry Lounge is a unique<br />
concept in its sector as Praveena has<br />
created a clean, comfortable and chilled<br />
environment or her customers whilst they<br />
wash their clothes.<br />
Praveena is a thoughtful, intelligent and<br />
ethical business lady who is completely<br />
unique at what her business does, this is<br />
Praveen’s story in her own words:<br />
Most of my family have their own business<br />
or are heavily envolved in commerce, so<br />
it was only a matter of time I think before I<br />
started my own business. My family were<br />
very good at encouraging their kids to excel<br />
in education I achieved a Degree in Business<br />
& Law and considered getting a Masters in<br />
Intellectual Property<br />
Instead I went the corporate route in<br />
employed world with C&G and eventually<br />
trained up to be a financial advisor. I then<br />
met my future Canadian husband and<br />
planned our future in Canada where I<br />
emigrated. We had two beautiful children<br />
...happy times or so I thought.<br />
My husband admitted to having a long affair.<br />
My Canadian paperwork was still in its early<br />
stages so I was not recognised and had no<br />
rights. It was a messy and heartbreaking<br />
divorce and my ex-husband was a bully. I<br />
eventually came back to UK with absolutely<br />
nothing apart from the most important my<br />
son and daughter. I decided to be a full time<br />
mother to my two lovely children and to focus<br />
on them, over time I got the call to work for<br />
myself.<br />
I investigated several ventures but wanted<br />
something which fitted around taking my<br />
children to school and spending quality time<br />
with them. I then got the idea of running<br />
a laundry centre with a difference it had<br />
to be clean, comfortable and somewhere<br />
where people can chill out whilst they do<br />
their washing. Eventually the unit came up<br />
on Bristol Road and with the help of my<br />
parents my dream started to be a reality. I<br />
also managed to get the maximum funding<br />
from a local charity trust called Fredericks<br />
Foundation, this was an amazing experience<br />
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as it included pitching my business to 10+<br />
people on the decision panel. My business<br />
was approved on the day and Fredericks<br />
have also asked me to do promotional work<br />
for them at different networking events.<br />
I eventually got the Planning permission<br />
required for change of use and in <strong>July</strong> 2013<br />
The Laundry Lounge was born, it was a<br />
large initial investment with the washing<br />
machines which I bought outright. The first<br />
three months were slow and I worried that I<br />
was doing the right thing but it quickly picked<br />
up and my fears abbitated. The services we<br />
offer include Service Washes from £3.50,<br />
Ironing and Alterations and more.<br />
it all happened for a reason. I’m fiercely<br />
independent and strong willed. Once I knew<br />
what I wanted I put my plans into action.<br />
To find out more about Praveena and what<br />
services The Laundry Lounge offer take a<br />
look at www.thelaundrylounge.co.uk or Call<br />
07729 531521<br />
<strong>Unique</strong> say: Well done Praveena<br />
your hard work, application and<br />
innovation will take you far<br />
Praveena has plans to expand the<br />
Commercial arm of her business as currently<br />
they look after 25-30 commercial clients inc<br />
football and rugby teams and with plans<br />
for a pick up and delivery service by early<br />
next year. Future plans also include winning<br />
more Commercial customers ideally B&B’s<br />
& Hotels, Praveena is looking into and<br />
researching the possibility of franchising the<br />
Laundry Lounge in the future...it’s a long<br />
way away yet but everything is a possibility.<br />
In her spare time Praveena loves to run,<br />
read books, travelling, and learning new<br />
languages, spending quality time with her<br />
children and loves socialising with her<br />
friends.<br />
Despite everything which happened.....<br />
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ADDICTED AND RECOVERY<br />
with Annoymous<br />
I started gambling when I was 17 years old...<br />
I was attending GlosCol in Cheltenham<br />
and got friendly with a lad who liked<br />
the odd bet on horses and football. My<br />
gambling carried on normally into my<br />
first employed job where I could pop to<br />
the bookies a few times a week to bet on<br />
horses, again this was on £1 or £2.<br />
Over the next few months something started<br />
to click in my head that this was easy money<br />
and the bets slowly started to increase from<br />
£2 to £5 per bet and also gambling every day<br />
in addition to having extended lunch breaks<br />
and skiving parts of the afternoon.<br />
I then managed to get a different job which<br />
was well paid and then the my life and<br />
gambling started to become unmanageable<br />
as I was well and truly Addicted. I would<br />
skive off work to go to racing events at<br />
Cheltenham or go to the bookies...I would<br />
also go to the bookies when I should of been<br />
managing a business. Addicts have to lie to<br />
cover their tracks so loved ones do not know<br />
what you are getting upto. Addiction is very<br />
much about pleasure, pain and the lie’s that<br />
you tell yourself and others every day it really<br />
is like being on a Hamsters wheel..circle of<br />
addiction with no way out...or so I thought.<br />
I would be telling elborate lies to my girlfriend<br />
of the time or starting arguments so I could<br />
go gambling...gambling was my life and<br />
everything else had to fit round it. You have<br />
moments of clarity where you realise you<br />
need help and need to stop but then you end<br />
up stealing or manipulating someone to get<br />
money once your own funds dried up.<br />
After several crisis points in my life I called<br />
Gamcare and they pointed me in the<br />
direction of a Self Help group for Gamblers,<br />
slowly but surely my life started to improve<br />
as I was given some new life skills to help<br />
stop me gambling. As the years went by I<br />
relapsed a couple of times but now I have<br />
been clean for a good period of time, I now<br />
work on my recovery and try to help other<br />
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Whatever your addiction there is always a<br />
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Tattoo or Taboo<br />
Tokyo Tattoo is a avant-garde tattoo studio at 13 The Courtyard off Montpellier<br />
Street in Cheltenham. Deano the owner chilled out with our very own Sarah<br />
Mckew @LadyMckew as they shared his vision for Tokyo Tattoo.<br />
SM: What’s your vision with TokyoTattoo?<br />
Tattoo or<br />
SM: What makes you different?<br />
Deano: I want to change the image of<br />
tattooing and create a brand. But, more<br />
importantly, give our clients confidence, with<br />
high standards and high quality hygiene.<br />
The position of the studio was important<br />
to us, with a top end studio, no expense<br />
spared. We are also the first tattoo studio<br />
that’s a limited company. We are a lifestyle<br />
brand with an avant-garde studio.<br />
SM: It’s obvious when you walk into<br />
TokyoTattoo that it is a bright, clean studio.<br />
Are you setting a trend with studios?<br />
Deano: No. We are setting the benchmark of<br />
how it should be, by setting high standards.<br />
It’s not a trend. Trends come and go. We<br />
pay attention to detail and maintain a very<br />
high standard of hygiene<br />
SM: What do you do to maintain the high<br />
standards?<br />
Deano: We only use organic ink. Some inks<br />
used around the world are poisonous we are<br />
trying to help the industry. We don’t want to<br />
be streamlined.<br />
Deano: I want our clients to walk into<br />
TokyoTattoo and be at ease. It’s clean, its<br />
pristine each station has an iPad docking<br />
station, so the guests can relax listen to the<br />
music they want to listen to, if they don’t like<br />
what’s playing at that point.<br />
We are updating the market and<br />
making tattooing luxurious, giving the<br />
customer what they want. We have a<br />
minimum of two guest artists a month, giving<br />
more choice and no waiting lists.<br />
SM: You have thought of everything, does<br />
this include the brands stocked in the studio?<br />
Deano: We have Brand Ambassadors; we<br />
are the first studio to do this. They have a<br />
large following so we help promote them and<br />
promote us. We have the bestselling Beard<br />
Oil, Apothecary 87 by fashion model Chris<br />
Millington, clothing from Prang Out and Pride<br />
Aftercare products which are the best in the<br />
world.<br />
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SM: Do you want to talk about Rocking the<br />
Cotswolds?<br />
Deano: We are so proud to be recognised<br />
for bringing something different and unique<br />
to the Cotswolds. Out of 300 nominees<br />
we have been classed as a “rocker of the<br />
Cotswolds”. It’s nice to be accepted and to<br />
be a feature of the Cotswolds.<br />
SM: Do you think tattooing will ever become<br />
fully accepted as Art?<br />
Deano: No, not all art is accepted. A new<br />
generation will change the mind set and up<br />
the game for others, but not everyone will<br />
accept it.<br />
Taboo<br />
SM: With the impact of social media, what<br />
positive & negative impacts do you think<br />
it has for future development of the tattoo<br />
industry?<br />
Deano: It’s definitely benefiting the industry.<br />
You are now able to see an artist, go to<br />
them and see what can be achieved. This is<br />
changing people’s ideas on tattoos.<br />
‘Everyone that leaves here leaves with a<br />
piece of art’<br />
SM: Whats next for TokyoTattoo?<br />
Deano: I am planning on open more<br />
TokyoTattoo around the UK maintaining<br />
the right location so we continue our luxury<br />
brand.<br />
Sarah Mckew<br />
Fashion Editor<br />
© Sarah McKew <strong>2014</strong><br />
‘Everyone that leaves here<br />
leaves with a piece of art’<br />
boo<br />
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Hilary and Rob of Emmaus Cheltenham<br />
a unique approach to homelessness<br />
Tucked down Henrietta Street,<br />
behind the Brewery the Emmaus<br />
Charity Shop might look like any<br />
other, selling furniture, bric a brac<br />
and clothing. But did you know that<br />
this shop is part of an international<br />
movement that has a UNIQUE<br />
approach to homelessness?<br />
Emmaus Gloucestershire is one of 26<br />
communities in the UK providing homeless<br />
people with a place to live and work.<br />
The shop in Cheltenham is one of four in<br />
Gloucestershire that supports 23 formerly<br />
homeless people, called companions. It is<br />
UNIQUELY staffed - in return for board and<br />
lodging companions give up the right to state<br />
benefits and work 40 hours in the shops and<br />
furniture warehouse.<br />
We have a UNIQUE way of using the surplus<br />
that we generate – we give it to others<br />
who need it more than we do. This can be<br />
local charities, individual families in need,<br />
and international aid projects. Currently we<br />
are supporting homelessness services in<br />
Gloucestershire and several projects in India.<br />
It’s not about the money we generate and<br />
the excellent shops we provide in four<br />
communities, it is about changing lives.<br />
We have believe that in helping others we<br />
help ourselves, and that meaningful work<br />
restores dignity and inclusion in society.<br />
The perception of people who are homeless<br />
is that they are a drain on society, but the<br />
residents of Emmaus Communities turn this<br />
perception on its head. Not only do they work<br />
to support themselves, but they also work to<br />
help others.<br />
It is a UNIQUE and successful business<br />
run much like a co-operative. All goods<br />
are donated and are sold on at low prices<br />
with a high turnover of stock. We don’t<br />
sell new goods or pay for our stock. The<br />
people of Gloucestershire generously give<br />
their unwanted goods and larger items are<br />
collected free of charge. Emmaus rarely<br />
says no to goods offered and we dispose of<br />
the things we can’t sell in way that doesn’t<br />
damage the environment – last year we<br />
saved 415 tonnes from landfill.<br />
It is a UNIQUE business and successful<br />
business model. In 2011 UK research<br />
(Just Economics) forecast a Social Return<br />
on investment (SROI) of £11 for every £1<br />
invested. The savings to taxpayers for every<br />
companion living and working at Emmaus<br />
Gloucestershire is calculated to be £47,442.<br />
The first Emmaus Companion, living with<br />
the founder Abbé Pierre in 1948 in France<br />
helped to build temporary homes for those<br />
in need, first in the priest’s own garden,<br />
then wherever land could be bought or<br />
scrounged. He later said; “Whatever else<br />
he might have given me - money, home,<br />
somewhere to work - I’d have still tried to kill<br />
myself again. What I was missing, and what<br />
he offered, was something to live for.”<br />
It’s UNIQUE – but it works! It works because<br />
companions work 40 hours a week to make<br />
us independent and surplus generating. It<br />
works because the people of Cheltenham<br />
and Gloucestershire provide us with the<br />
goods to sell and come and buy from us.<br />
Most importantly it works because we work<br />
for others and make a difference to lives<br />
home and abroad.<br />
visit us at 19 Henrietta St Cheltenham GL50 4AA Tel: 01242 269734<br />
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Hollie Gazzard Trust<br />
Unfortunately, Hollie was tragically<br />
murdered by an ex-Partner on 18<br />
February <strong>2014</strong> while she was<br />
working as a hairdresser in her<br />
Salon.<br />
We wanted something positive to<br />
come out of this tragedy so<br />
we set up the Hollie Gazzard Trust<br />
to help support and fund a young<br />
hairdresser in Gloucester each<br />
year to enable them to be trained<br />
and educated in Hairdressing and<br />
to fund their equipment.<br />
This was Hollie’s passion and we<br />
want to give others the opportunity<br />
that Hollie was fortunate to have.<br />
The Trust will also be supporting two<br />
other local charities, Increase the Peace, a<br />
project targeting young individuals away<br />
from knife crime and Anti Social Behavior<br />
& GDASS (Gloucestershire Domestic<br />
Abuse Support Service), helping those<br />
who suffer from domestic abuse locally.<br />
While we are devastated and can’t<br />
change what happened to Hollie, the<br />
funds raised will go towards these<br />
three worthwhile charities with the<br />
intention of helping others.<br />
We are in the process of setting up our<br />
own website and you can access this<br />
by browsing to www.holliegazzard.org.<br />
All donation are an important<br />
contribution towards the Trust Fund<br />
and will go some way towards us<br />
achieving our aims in helping others.<br />
THANK YOU FOR YOUR<br />
SUPPORT<br />
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unique cheltenham<br />
events in <strong>July</strong><br />
Selection of events and happenings in<br />
the Cheltenham Community:<br />
<strong>Unique</strong> Networking (Business Networking)<br />
Wed 2nd <strong>July</strong> 7am - 8.30am<br />
Longford Inn,Gloucester<br />
Cheltenham Music Festival<br />
2nd <strong>July</strong> - 13th <strong>July</strong><br />
Various venues<br />
Pied Piper Junior Aquathlon<br />
Sat 12th <strong>July</strong> 8am - 11am<br />
Sandford Park<br />
Winchcombe Table Tennie Club Summer BBQ<br />
Tues 15th <strong>July</strong> 7.30pm - 10.00pm Call Dick Prior 01242 603233<br />
Lee Evans<br />
Sun 20th <strong>July</strong><br />
Centaur, Cheltenham Racecourse<br />
Monty Don - Down to Earth<br />
Sun 20th <strong>July</strong><br />
Cheltenham Town Hall<br />
Hollie Gazzard’s 21st Birthday Weekend<br />
26th & 27th <strong>July</strong><br />
The King Teddy, Longlevens<br />
Please let us know if you have an event you want to advertise in our<br />
magazine, please email steveunique@yahoo.co.uk<br />
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Harnessing potential in people<br />
At Charles Ford Recruitment we believe in listening and<br />
speaking with clients to ascertain your staffing objectives.<br />
Call Charles Ford Recruitment on<br />
01242 699752 or 07731 899854<br />
How we are different:<br />
• All Candidates are interviewed face to face and fully referenced<br />
• Excellent interpersonal skills underwritten with integrity<br />
• Proactive Communication<br />
• Twelve Month Candidate guarantee available<br />
• Head hunting service available to recruit and match a candidate to<br />
your specific requirement<br />
Customer Service<br />
Administration<br />
Automotive<br />
Charles Ford Recruitment taking the hassle out of Recruitment<br />
Special Offer for <strong>Unique</strong><br />
CV Rewriting Service, rewrite your CV for £70 was £90<br />
Just email your CV to sales@charlesfordrecruitment.com.<br />
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£25 for Equine & Canine Initial Consultations and Treatments.<br />
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1 Hour Consultation Includes:<br />
Assessment of muscle, bone and joint alignment<br />
Massage, myofascial release and stretching<br />
Personalised after care and rehabilitation regime<br />
Contact Jenny on:<br />
T: 07727 845996 E: jkralee@gmail.com<br />
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Everyone loves cake !<br />
So at Let There Bee Cake<br />
my main mission is to<br />
create a cake you<br />
wont forget<br />
If you are interested in a bespoke cake, Please<br />
do contact me at the details below so we can<br />
discuss what you require. Please also take a look<br />
at the website to see the work I have done.<br />
Prices will vary depending on your design,<br />
for a rough idea you could visit my website.<br />
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Mobile: 07837650447<br />
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Cheltenham Animal Shelter<br />
Gardner’s Lane, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL51 9JW<br />
Providing shelter for homeless domestic animals from across the county whilst<br />
attempting to locate appropriate new homes. We also aim to educate members of<br />
the public and professionals in correct and appropriate animal husbandry through<br />
humane education programmes.<br />
Rehoming • Boarding • Grooming • Training • Pet Shop<br />
visit www.gawa.org.uk<br />
www.facebook.com/cheltenhamanimalshelter/info<br />
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networking<br />
Don’t Miss This Business People...<br />
Promote<br />
YOUR<br />
business<br />
every fortnight:<br />
Wednesday 06:45 - 08:30am<br />
Longford Inn, Gloucester GL2 9BE<br />
NEXT MEETINGS:<br />
2nd <strong>July</strong> • 16th <strong>July</strong> • 30th <strong>July</strong><br />
<strong>Unique</strong> Business Networking offers local business owners:<br />
#RealBusinessRelationships #RealBusinessSupport<br />
#RealBusinessIntroductions<br />
Costs: Only £10 to Visit including Full English Breakfast<br />
If you want to know more about <strong>Unique</strong> Business Networking<br />
Call Steve Taylor on 07731 899854, or just turn up at either venue with<br />
plenty of Business Cards, 60 Seconds elevator speech and a smile<br />
To book your seat click on www.uniquenetworking.co.uk<br />
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