Julie and Amanda began working together in 2006 when they discovered a shared passion for promoting and encouraging art and creativity primarily through sewing. They joined forces to combine teddy bear and soft toy design and construction with helping to enthuse children (and their parents) through workshops and creative birthday parties.
The business developed into restoration and repair as it became clear this was what people really wanted. Bear It In Mind then began to focus...
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Sonnaz Nooranvary is a British-Iranian upholsterer based in Dorset, and best known for being the resident upholstery expert on the RTS Award-winning, BBC One show, The Repair Shop.
Born in Iran Sonnaz lived on an Iranian Merchant Navy Ship for the first year of her life before the family settled in the UK briefly. This has always meant that Sonnaz has a thirst for adventure, travel and exciting and new experiences.
Starting her upholstery career at 17-years-old, as the first female apprentice,...
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Reuben has been fascinated with all things mechanical since he was a toddler. Growing up on the family’s remote 2000 acre hill farm in the Yorkshire Dales with eight brothers and sisters, Reuben taught himself how to fix tractors when he was just 11.
Reuben spent weekends and holidays fixing up and flipping second-hand trials bikes hoping to save enough cash to buy a digger and start a digging business when he left school.
Reuben has appeared...
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Psychic, astrologer, broadcaster, TV personality and Sunday Times best-selling author, Michele Knight has re-defined the terms ‘psychic’ and ‘self-empowerment’ bringing psychics and astrology into the 21st Century with an exciting, and contemporary spin which gives ancient wisdom new meaning
Voted the UK’s Favourite Female Psychic several years running by readers of Soul & Spirit – one of the UK’s leading magazines in the mind, body and spirit genre, as well as Best Spiritual Website, Best Psychic Company, Best...
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TRICIA CRESSWELL is a retired public health doctor. She temporarily returned to work in spring 2020 in support of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and now, in 2021, is volunteering as a vaccinator. As a dedicated reader of fiction and aspiring writer, she completed the MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle in 2017. Her work reflects her concerns about social justice, women’s reproductive rights and the ethical complexities we all face. Creative response to the...
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Globally acclaimed Interior Designer and TV Personality Laurence Llewelyn Bowen is a true British icon. His unrivalled talent, professional skill and personal charisma has established Laurence as an international design superstar and easily one of the UK’s most famous and recognisable faces.
Laurence is celebrated for his passionate advocacy of design democracy and has an unwavering commitment to the concepts of ‘Everyday Luxury’ and ‘Casual Glamour’. His unique style and a sharp knowledge of the sector...
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Clive is a very successful first-generation farmer, who had no previous experience. Clive found Ravenseat Farm over 25 years ago. It is located in Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales. Clive’s farm has continued to go from strength to strength. They have raised a family of 9 children, a flock of Swaledale sheep and an assorted range of horses, cattle, pigs and dogs in one of the most remote areas of the country!
Clive is best known...
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Dawn Butler is a member of Parliament a politician who is known for her straight talking and inspirational speeches.
Dawn made history as the first Black woman to speak from the despatch box in the house of commons, she was first ever elected female African-Caribbean government minister in the House of Commons.
Dawn uses her platform for others again making history by using British Sign Language to ask a question in the House of Commons to raise...
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Lewis Hancox is an influencer, filmmaker and illustrator from the North West UK. Mainly known for his online characters ‘British Mum’ and ‘Prinny
Queen’, he's built a committed following and regularly produces viral comedy videos.
In 2011 he featured in the Channel 4 series ‘My Transsexual Summer’, which
initially gave him a platform for his work. He co-created an ongoing film
project about trans people called ‘My Genderation’, with trans-activist
Fox Fisher. Their films have been screened in festivals all...
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Sarah Hart is a respected pure mathematician and a gifted expositor of mathematics, as evidenced by her 2021 profile in the New York Times https://tinyurl.com/3urd7pxk. Dr Hart was the youngest STEM professor appointed at Birkbeck College (University of London) and its first woman Mathematics Professor. Educated at Oxford and Manchester, she gained her PhD in Mathematics in 2000 at the age of 25, moving to Birkbeck as a lecturer in 2004. As a hugely popular...
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