Charlotte Purdie was a new parent with a problem. There was nowhere to go with the right facilities to enable her to feed her baby.
So Purdie – then 21 – did something about it. She launched The Milk Lounge, a cafe in Nottingham with fantastic, family friendly features.
From clean and spacious changing rooms, activities for toddlers and older children, sensory spaces, peer support, homemade cakes and healthy food, language classes, feeding rooms and buggy parking, The Milk Lounge was designed to meet families’ needs.
The original cafe thrived and Charlotte has opened a second cafe. In episode 4 of The Responsible Finance podcast, Charlotte tells us about:
- the “rollercoaster” ride of launching and growing a business,
- biggest challenges, and how she overcame them,
- why she turned to a responsible finance provider – our member, First Enterprise – when she needed money to get The Milk Lounge going but the bank said “no.”
Listen to episode 4 on iTunes, or download or click to play, below:
What next?
- Listen to Episodes 1,2 and 3.
- Please share the podcast, tell others about it, and ideally leave a rating or review on iTunes so other people can learn about the work and impact of responsible finance providers. And if you’re a responsible finance provider or a client and you’d like to put yourself forward to be on the show, get in touch – email podcast producer, Jamie Veitch.