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Sponsored by English Heritage, National Lottery Heritage Fund, and Vist Richmond and hosted at RHACC, these five separate events over June and July are inspired by Henrietta Howard- visionary behind Marble Hill.

These events are by women to inspire your inner entrepreneur. Your ticket includes a glass of wine, networking, and a marketplace promoting local businesses.

Do What You Love and Love What You Do – Join Holly Tucker (Founder, NotontheHighStreet.com and Holly & Co) and Samantha Trinder (Co-Owner, Bingham Riverhouse) for an in-conversation around the joys, challenges and lessons learned when setting up and running your own business.

Holly Tucker:

Holly Tucker MBE, founder of notonthehighstreet and Holly & Co, is the UK Ambassador to Creative Small Businesses.

She believes that following your passion and building a business doing what you love is the key to a happy and fulfilled life. Through Holly & Co, a creative content company, Holly is working to positively influence this creative movement by redefining what it means to be a ‘small business’, encouraging more women to start their own businesses, as well as empowering our young with the skills to thrive in the new working world they are entering. Bringing colour and creativity to the business world, Holly seeks to advise and inspire anyone who is dreaming of starting or already on the business journey through her podcast ‘Conversations of Inspiration’, events, a physical shop, and now, Do What You Love, Love What You Do, a Sunday Times Bestseller business book.

Holly Tucker joins The Poppy Factory as Vice Patron - The Poppy Factory

Samantha Trinder:

Co-founder of the Bingham Riverhouse Hotel.

Sama is a yoga/meditation teacher, therapist and the founder of bhuti, an eco wellbeing escape + members club in Richmond, London. ‘bhuti’ was founded in 2016 to offer a place to find your ‘inner bhuti’ through connection: with others, with yourself and through yoga/fitness, therapies, courses and a plant based cafe. Sama has been practicing yoga for almost 20 years and learnt meditation in 2008. Being a mum of two she juggled a career in hospitality, creating and operating a boutique hotel, Bingham Riverhouse in London for many years. Located on the idyllic Richmond Riverside, Bingham Riverhouse features a stunning venue for weddings & civil ceremonies along with 15 luxurious bedrooms, members club and an acclaimed restaurant by MasterChef: The Professionals winner Steven Edwards.

At the end of 2020 Sama launched the members club at Bingham Riverhouse to offer a second home for people to socialise, work and evolve. The concept of the club was inspired by the changing needs of the community during the pandemic, with hybrid working environments as the new normal, and a desire for more balance. The membership offers inspiring workspace, exciting monthly events and opportunity to connect both socially and professionally.