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Eleanor Ward from Chichester, West Sussex, is bringing her idea for a company that sells innovative changing robes to life after securing £25k in funding from Let’s Do Business Finance under the Start Up Loan scheme.

After falling in love with open water swimming in 2018, Ellie also fell in love with using changing robes – and this evolved into using them when camping and in every day life.

The convenience, the comfort, and the practicality, not to mention the multiple uses - changing robes had become a staple of her new hobby, but despite this, she had bright ideas for how products from even the leading brands could be improved. Sometimes struggling with manual dexterity in her hands, she knew others might feel the same, and value an alternative – but the turning point was yet to come.

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