Local business woman Julie Kaur, owner of Jule's Convenience Store in Hadley, Telford has reached the final of Best Businesswomen Awards for 2024 and has also been nominated for Community Retailed of the Year award in the Retail Industry Awards 2024.
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00:00We've got an email through last week to say we've won the Best Businesswoman Awards,
00:05which is a huge honour for myself as an Asian lady and representing women in general.
00:11So it's a real honour and I think all women should apply for stuff like this because
00:16we're all doing the work, yeah, and I think unless you apply yourself you don't know what
00:21you're capable of. During Covid it was a case of sink or swim and I think we had to swim
00:27basically because you can see the surrounding areas full of elderly people, vulnerable people,
00:33so our job was to make sure the goods got out there as well as look after our own safety.
00:37But since then I feel the respect has gone phenomenal, it's been really rewarding serving
00:42the public. So what we try and do is always be available to have a chat and if we think
00:47somebody's having a bad day we'll say right we're available at nine o'clock tomorrow and come back.
00:51And generally they do and then we tell them about the local groups like the over 50s at
00:55Hadley, anything else, the swimming lessons at Wellington. We try and keep them up to date but
01:00then we also offer tea and coffee. We've got a breakfast club that we do that my son introduced,
01:05so we have about five or six ladies that come in and a couple of gentlemen just come have a
01:09cup of tea, could be toast one day, it could be just biscuits, but they chat to each other,
01:14tell them what they watched on telly and there's a lot of mental health so we want to try and
01:19address a little bit of that. So going forward we'd like to take probably 10-12 people who don't
01:26really go out and wouldn't have afternoon tea anywhere and just treat them to afternoon tea.
01:30We've been very fortunate, me and my husband, we've been able to bring up our family here
01:34and everybody has been very loyal to us. You know we don't need loyalty cards, loyalty schemes,
01:40we're just really lucky to be able to have loyal residents really and passing by trade.
01:46And even the youngsters from the college to HLC, the primary schools, they've been great and
01:52have a nice day goes a long way than tar and see you later. So it's been nice and the community
01:59is growing from strength to strength, people come to us for support and we try and support them as
02:03best as we can. It's best consumer so it's what we've done during Covid, how we've grown as a
02:09business, so it's and it's all female so that'll be quite interesting. I mean we are down for
02:16Community with Retail Industry Awards, we had that through today and being shortlisted for us
02:22as a stall we're doing everything right and we're going above and beyond what we should be doing.
02:28And I think I take my hats off to all independent stalls that went through Covid because without us
02:35the local community would not have survived so I say fair play to all of us, it's not just about me.