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Ventura Digital

Marketing company Ventura Digital benefits from the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme.

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Honey Corn

Pioneers in organic and eco-friendly beauty products, Honey Corn, have teamed up with airline amenities provider Spiriant, to introduce their luxury, artisan skincare kits to the skies.

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Stark Restaurant

Good food laid bare, Michelin-Star style. Ladders and rope lights hang intertwined beside unpolished, bespoke wood-panelled walls.

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Jeavon’s Toffee

The entrepreneurs that have taken start-up loan lending past the £15m milestone are Corin and Lesley Jeavon, founders of vegan toffee brand, Jeavon’s Toffee.

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Ekkist Architects

Founded by Olga Turner and Jonathan Baker, the Guildford-based business offers a complete design service.

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Ismini Phillips Studios

The Tonbridge-based studio offers Pilates classes fit-for-all, regardless of experience. Founder, Ismini Phillips has earned her status as a fitness expert from being a Pilates teacher for over ten years to the founder of her own studios, launched in early 2019 to deliver health and fitness solutions to the local community. 

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Half Man! Half Burger!

HM!HB! delivers an experience true burger fans can’t get enough of.  Co-owners Rory Myers and Matt Woodhouse source all their ingredients from local suppliers, including the grass-fed, pastured Sussex beef, leaving no stone unturned in pursuit of serving the tastiest burgers possible.

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FittaMamma

Alexandra McCabe is determined to help mums look and feel good. A Start Up Loan helped her kick start her pregnancy sportswear business.

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Bringing Space to Sussex: Creative Space Science

Hastings couple launched a mobile planetarium business following a Start Up Loan. Creative Space Science CIC is a social enterprise and Community Interest Company offering astronomy outreach with the ambition to influence and inspire the next generation of space scientists.

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Salon1thirty4

Craving some TLC? Uckfield’s leading beauty salon is open for business!

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The Junction Gastropub

Vibrant, family-friendly community pub in Eastbourne, The Junction, opened in Polegate following support from a Start Up Loan.

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The Lightshop

With over thirty years of experience, Jason Daniel saw an opportunity to open up Eastbourne’s first independent premier lighting shop in the centre of Eastbourne.

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The Chap Magazine

It’s 1999. Social media doesn’t exist. There’s a rivalry between Blur and Oasis, Brit-Pop is truly in its prime and lad’s mags flood supermarket shelves.

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Tipz ‘N’ Toez

Beauty entrepreneurs and twins, Maria and Nicola have been in the trade since the age of sixteen and have years of expertise in the field, launching their very first salon, Tipz ‘N’ Toez over eighteen years ago.

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The Hive

The Hive is at the centre of Lewes High Street in more ways than one. 

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Californian Classics

Hastings-based Californian Classics offer a one-stop shop for Karmann Ghia owners. Combining a life-long passion with a wealth of expertise, the business is dedicated to helping clients find specialist parts, accessories and engines to restore or improve their Classic Karmann Ghia.

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