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Penny has grand designs
Thursday 4th March
A chance meeting at Trawden show led a Colne designer to start her own business.
Penny Roadway, whose previous work includes packaging for Prince Charles’ Highgrove Estate, founded Quench Creative after speaking to advisors from Pennine Lancashire’s No Limits programme.
Penny explains: “I was made redundant, and was looking around for another job when I bumped into someone I’d known at a previous company. She suggested looking at starting my own business.
“I had thought about it before, but not in such a serious way.”
Penny went along to various workshops run by the No Limits Get Set programme, but it was a Women Mean Business event, run as part of November’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, that was a turning point.
“Liz Pollard from Dale Carnegie Training talked about facing your fears and getting outside your comfort zone. I realised that I kept putting off starting because it was outside my comfort zone. I had to face that and start up properly. So that’s what I’ve done.”
Penny’s new business, Quench Creative, began work on March 1, based at Pendle Enterprise Haven in Nelson. While the business takes on all sorts of design work, it will build on Penny’s specialist background designing labels for the fashion industry, from the leather patches on your jeans to the branded tags that hang on new clothes (known to retailers as swing tickets).
While Penny is discreet about where her work ends up, a sneaky peek at her desk reveals some very well known and sought-after names. But she says: “When I see something hanging in the high street, I get an enormous sense of achievement. It’s my work and it’s there in public.”
And now any Pennine Lancashire business thirsting for a good brand will be able to take advantage of Quench’s refreshing approach to design.
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