Elaine’s Space

Our New Warehouse

It’s been no secret that we’ve had a difficult 12 months at Children’s Rooms, I blogged about this last year -here

Approaching Christmas we quickly filled the new units with new lines and some cracking bargains thanks to the negotiating skills of Dave and Ourkev and the festive season was incredibly busy (we did see a downturn during the Woolworths fiasco though) but the New Year Sale proved even more popular.

The trend has continued throughout the year- thankfully.  Thanks to Darren and Carolyn being so capable, Dave and Kev have had plenty of time to source new suppliers and, even more important, the time to  go and see them and forge beneficial relationships - there’s a lot to be said for face to face contact in this electronic age!

By February it was obvious that if we were going to take advantage of the multitude of excellent deals that we were being offered we would have to start looking for larger premises.

And boy, did we strike lucky.

Not only is the warehouse much closer to home (Ourkev can easily! cycle there) it’s nearly twice the size at roughly half the price.

We also qualified for a £5000 Legi (Local Enterprise Growth Initiative Grant), so we were able to install a mezzanine floor and a second office.

Our landlords, also local folk, are incredibly nice, very accommodating and helpful. (and luckily  have a variety of other warehouses and business units in the area, which we could be taking advantage of in the near future ;))

We’re now fully moved and in the process of creating the best use of the available space - not an easy task, but we are getting there, allthough the amount of accumulated dust and debris is awesome.

Part 2 - Our Knight in Shining Armour - coming soon

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