Liverpool’s shops for £1 scheme
Two entrepreneurs have taken the keys for Liverpool's latest £1 shops. The scheme – a variation on the city's Homes for a Pound project – see the former empty units on Smithdown Road made available at a cost of £1 a year for three years.
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00:00 Two entrepreneurs have taken the keys for Liverpool's latest £1 jobs.
00:06 The scheme, a variation on the city's Homes for a Pound project,
00:10 sees the former empty units on Smithdown Road made available at a cost of £1 per year for three years.
00:17 It's about keeping money in communities, it's about creating jobs locally
00:21 and creating self-employment opportunities for people.
00:25 That's fine, I think that's really important and when we're talking to some of the people there today,
00:31 some are already trading, but this will give them the opportunity to expand,
00:35 to create jobs and to create more value and keep that within this community.
00:41 Jane Hayter, who previously worked on Smithdown Road in the Old Bank,
00:45 will open her shop in loving memory of, specialising in providing services for bereaved families at the end of August.
00:53 Well it's a real community project, just to be a part of the regeneration programme is lovely,
01:01 you know in itself to get these shops open, to get these up and running, it's a lovely neighbourhood
01:07 and I think it's good news for the people who are already here that we're all up and running.
01:14 So that's really important to me, but then in the lives of people who are suffering bereavement,
01:25 to say look that's okay and we're here for this special thing, that's also important.
01:35 Just two doors away, Derry Borman, who graduated with a photography degree from Liverpool Hope University a decade ago,
01:42 is set to open her first studio in the autumn.
01:45 I usually do weddings, but I've always wanted to have a space to branch out into commercial stuff
01:52 and some portraiture and family shoots and just other little bits.
01:58 So now I've got the space and I'm thinking I'm going to put a big focus on lifting up small businesses and the community,
02:07 so doing shoots for the businesses around, a lot of product photography, maybe doing some workshops for children and even adults.
02:17 The pair received their keys and will join three other £1 shops, a beauty salon, fashion store and Italian cafe,
02:24 on a previously vacant row of units once earmarked for demolition.
02:28 Well I think the future is really exciting for Smithdown Road, it's a great destination,
02:33 I think it's great that we've got independent businesses here, we've got new start-ups coming into the area
02:39 and I hope that the area will go from strength to strength and this is one part of this
02:44 and one small way that the council can help do that.
02:48 The duo both have their families to thank for making their dream of opening a shop come true.
02:53 Derry said she was alerted to the scheme when her father sent her a link on WhatsApp,
02:57 whilst Jane said she wasn't aware of the opportunity until her son Michael did the same.