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When Katerina and her husband moved from London to Llanwrst, they were looking for a change of pace from the hustle and bustle of the big city.  Both arts and music professionals, the pair wanted [...]

Dale Pool had a passion for photography since his father gave him an SLR camera at an early age.  At college he started undertaking some freelance work and from there decided to do a degree in [...]

I’m Kath, owner and frame maker at Free Range Frames. I’d been working in the legal sector since leaving university until one day I worked out that I still had as many years left to [...]

Rhys Jordan started his business in 2014 shortly after being made redundant as a Social Worker.  A keen fitness enthusiast, Rhys was coaching people for Triathlon Wales, but was frustrated with [...]

It’s been a good week for Robert Owen Community Banking. On Tuesday we were awarded a prestigious Citi Micro-entrepreneurship award – today we’ve been given the go ahead to keep on [...]

Responsible Finance press release Robert Owen Community Banking Fund named as Winner, Social & Community Impact in 2016 at the Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards When a Welsh community wanted [...]

Our Start Up Loan client ETO Music Practice has won a major new contract to produce all the music practice apps for the five sell out Young Voices choir concerts at London’s O2 Arena. Young [...]

It’s been a busy year for business loans here at Robert Owen and we have a number of interesting clients and business ideas that we are supporting at the moment. We form a lasting [...]

Since 2013, the Community Development Finance Association – now known as Responsible Finance – has been partnering up with the Citi Foundation to deliver the Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards in [...]

Lori Whinn had a great idea. She wanted to produce high quality, hand-made chocolate that was unlike any other on the market. Chocolate with a bit of pzazz that combined high quality, quirky [...]