What Câr-y-Môr can teach us about purpose, perseverance and turning an ambitious idea into a viable business Some businesses start with a product. Others start with an obvious gap in a market. Câr-y-Môr started with something considerably bigger: an ambition to bring coastal and rural communities together to restore the sea, improve the soil and…
Reflections from Connect Over A Cuppa 20th March 2025 with Cat Hyde, co-founder of Seagulls Reuse One of the reasons I started Connect Over A Cuppa was to hear from people who have built organisations in very different ways. We often talk about successful businesses in terms of turnover, growth, profitability or an eventual sale….
At our December 2024 Connect Over A Cuppa, we were especially pleased to welcome Paul Cogan, Collaborative CEO at Bettys & Taylors Group. Partly because it gave us the opportunity to look behind the scenes of one of Yorkshire’s most recognisable family businesses, and partly because Paul arrived with a considerable selection of Bettys and…
