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Embracing entrepreneurship in Hull and East Yorkshire Embracing entrepreneurship 07 2516-8428 842009 ISSN 772516 Business Works Magazine £3.95 Business Works 9 BUSINESSWORKS Winter 2019 LIFE-CHANGING SPACES Meet Joe Bvumburai of Eznat, whose dream took him 5,000 miles from home LOOK WHO’S TALKING Voiceover artist Liz Drury on how she embarked on her new career ARTY ANIMAL What’s ‘disruptive marketing’? Calvin Innes explains all Winter 2019 Powering Forward Joining the family firm wasn’t the easy option – there was nowhere to hide, says Lauren Boanas 007 #GrowMySME UNLOCK YOUR GROWTH POTENTIAL Whether it’s boosting productivity, targeting new markets or expanding your operations, we’ve got a range of experts on hand to help your business fl ourish. With three exciting schemes, the #GrowMySME programme offers your business access to specialist one-to-one advice and guidance, a varied workshop and masterclass series: Scale-Up and Supply Chain support, and grant schemes that will help you to unlock business growth. •BUSINESS GROWTH SCHEME •ICT FOR GROWTH •FINANCE FOR GROWTH www.growmysme.co.uk HumberGrowth Humber Business Growth Hub #GrowMySME CONTACTS BUSINESSWORKS WELCOME SALES UNLOCK Helen Gowland A warm welcome to our seventh issue of BW – and, as we approach Christmas [email protected] and what could be one of the coldest winters in years (so I’ve heard), we’re certainly in need of warmth. I look forward to Christmas not so much for YOUR GROWTH the glitter, the presents and the booze (though those aren’t bad!), but for the chance to down tools for a bit. I usually turn my office phone off around PRODUCTION December 20 and get back going in the first week of January. Let’s face it, the POTENTIAL Steve Jessop majority of people are doing the same. When you work for yourself you can [email protected] often feel like you’re never quite “off-duty” (for me, the idea of a two-week holiday is but a distant fantasy) – but this time of the year I feel justified in going offline for a bit. Some might be horrified by the idea of going offline, and not being accessible DESIGN to customers/clients 24/7, and indeed it depends on what industry you work in, Whether it’s boosting productivity, targeting new but I’ve always said that unless you work for an emergency service, most things Craig Hopson can wait until tomorrow, or next week. You’ve got to have your downtime – [email protected] markets or expanding your operations, we’ve got a and if you’re self-employed or run a business, sometimes you just grab that downtime when you can; the odd Friday afternoon, a Monday morning, range of experts on hand to help your business fl ourish. whatever works for you. Just don’t burn yourself out – it’s not worth it. EDITOR As I get older, the idea of “self-care” becomes ever more important to me #GrowMySME – more than chasing money. I learned a lesson a long time ago when I was With three exciting schemes, the programme offers your business access Sam Hawcroft looking at work emails on my phone on a Sunday night, and trying to deal to specialist one-to-one advice and guidance, a varied workshop and masterclass series: [email protected] with an irate customer who had a problem with his subscription (for H&E, the magazine I publish). He was acting like I’d cut off his gas – calling me and my Scale-Up and Supply Chain support, and grant schemes that will help you to unlock company everything under the sun. It made me upset and angry, and I didn’t get business growth. much sleep that night. I should have left those work emails on my computer and PHOTOGRAPHY dealt with them on the Monday morning. The customer in question eventually Leo Francis blustered that he wasn’t going to renew, so I [email protected] called his bluff and didn’t beg him to come back – •BUSINESS GROWTH SCHEME he was wasting my time and causing me anxiety, and not having to deal with him ever again was worth far, far more than any money he could 07854 442741 have paid me. •ICT FOR GROWTH Anyway, I really hope you have some time bw-magazine.co.uk to switch off this Christmas. Enjoy the food, festivities and family time – but make sure you •FINANCE FOR GROWTH keep this BW magazine somewhere safe to inspire you when January comes around. Sam Hawcroft, BW Editor All contents copyright © 2019 Business Works. www.growmysme.co.uk All rights reserved. While every effort is made to In association with ensure accuracy, no responsibility can be HumberGrowth Humber Business Growth Hub accepted for inaccuracies, howsoever caused. No liability can be accepted for illustrations, Engineering The Future photographs, artwork or advertising materials Established Since 1991 while in transmission or with the publisher or their agents. All content marked Profile should be regarded as advertorial. All information is correct at time of going to print, November 2019. www.bw-magazine.co.uk CONTENTS WINTER 2019 Embracing entrepreneurship in Hull and East Yorkshire www.bw-magazine.co.uk 10 34 16 50 24 FEATURES REGULARS 06. NEWS 10 WHAT IS ‘DISRUPTIVE MARKETING’? Sam Hawcroft talks to artist Calvin Innes 08. THE COURT FILES POWER 14. FOCUS ON FINANCE 16 Lauren Boanas, technical director of Hull-based PowerPlus 22. LEGAL MATTERS LIFE CHANGING 45 24 42. OPINION Joe Bvumburai’s dream took him 5,000 miles from home 54. EVENTS DIARY ATTENTION TO DETAIL 30 Phil Ascough meets the teenage entrepreneur whose passion became a business ls LIFESTYLE FACE BEHIND THE VOICE 34 Professional voiceover artist Liz Drury talks to Sam Hawcroft Untitled-2 1 19/11/2019 19:54 06 NEWS Charities join forces to offer auction bidders close-up view of Viola return The 102-year-old son of a former skipper of the Viola trawler has signed up to support two of his favourite charities, which have joined forces to create a unique fundraising offer. Eric Tharratt has signed two of the “Homeward Bound” calendars produced by the Viola Trust to raise awareness and money as part of their campaign to bring by Robert Bentley Picture the Viola trawler back to Hull. The calendars will be sold in a silent auction by the Sailors’ Children’s Society, with the prize also including a place for each successful bidder, as guests of the Viola Trust, at the official welcome party when the Viola returns. The two charities will split the proceeds of the sale. Bids can be placed by sending an email with your bid amount to wendy. [email protected]. Alternatively you can call Wendy Fish on 01482 342331 and request a card that can be used to submit your bid. The auction will close at end of business on Monday, December 16, Artist Larry Malkin with some of the paintings featured in the calendar. and the calendars will be forwarded to the successful bidders. Eric, of St Nicholas Avenue, Hull, is the from Hull or have a strong connection to has been very strong. Some calendars are eldest of five children whose father, George the city. still available in retail outlets throughout William Tharratt, was skipper of the Viola Business sponsors including Andrew Hull and East Yorkshire but we expect to before the Great War. When George died in Jackson Solicitors, Arco, RSM UK, SMS sell out soon and of course only two people the late 1920s, Eric’s mother, Dorothy, told Towage and 1884 Wine & Tapas Bar can claim the special, signed calendars. We her five children that one of them would covered the cost of printing 500 copies are very grateful to the Sailors’ Children’s have to go to Newland Homes because she of the calendar. Fewer than 50 remain, Society for organising the bidding process could not afford to house them all. and only the two in the possession of and we really hope that people respond Dorothy selected the youngest, two-year- the Sailors’ Children’s Society carry the generously and help us all make this a great old Violet, as the child who should leave signatures of both Eric and Larry. success.” but Eric insisted he would go because he Deanne Thomas, the charity’s chief Copies of the calendar are available from was nearly 12 and could leave after two executive, said: “We found Eric’s Hotham’s Distillery, 1884 Wine & Tapas years and earn an income to support the remarkable story very moving and we Bar and Hull Maritime Museum as well as family as the man of the house. hope others will feel the same way. We are from selected post offices and newsagents. When he was 14, Eric got a job on a farm delighted that Eric and the Viola Trust felt it It can also be ordered via email to info@ at Thearne and four years later he joined appropriate to support our work in addition violatrawler.net. Smith & Nephew, where he stayed for 46 to the campaign to bring the Viola home. The Viola was built in Beverley in 1906 years until retirement. “Their target date for the return of the and operated from Humber Dock – now He said: “I’d wanted to go into the navy historic vessel is early 2021, which is Hull Marina – as part of the Hellyer fleet but the people at Newland Homes had to also the year of the 200th anniversary of boxing trawlers.