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Mum who remortgaged house to start dream wedding shoe business celebrates £1m turnover
23.08.2022 - 15:19 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A mum who remortgaged her home and started her dream business for her spare bedroom is celebrating a whopping £1m company turnover. Charlotte Mills had always wanted to become a designer, and in 2014 decided to take the plunge into the fashion industry.
Using knowledge she gained from working at other companies such as River Island, the mum-of-two set up her wedding shoe brand from her spare room - after remortgaging her house and still working full time. She was denied a government grant or loan from the bank and had to keep her fledgling business a secret from her boss incase it folded.
However, she was determined to make it a success and spent many sleepless nights trying to get her brand off the ground, Hull Live reports. Now, after seven years of hard work and a "disaster" that left her with huge debt, her business turned over an incredible £1million in 2021 - making more than £400,000 in profit - with this year's sales already up by 30 per cent.
From a working-class family in the small town of Failsworth in Oldham, Charlotte was the first in her family to head to university. She studied at the London College of Fashion - alongside the likes of Sophia Webster and alumnus Jimmy Choo - and her interview to get a place was the first time she'd visited the capital.
Although she didn't achieve the A Level grades she was meant to, the prestigious university let her in but she always felt like an outsider. "I love London now and have the best time when I go, but moving there as a student was difficult and lonely," Charlotte told The Mirror.
"I was coming home a lot at weekends because I was so homesick. Being a northerner in London, I was really intimidated by all the other girls in my class. They all had posh accents and
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