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00:00Hi, so my name's Isaac and this is Grace. We run Jolly Jellies here in Waterlooville opening this

00:06Saturday which is tomorrow at the time of speaking. We're looking forward to meeting

00:11everyone and looking forward to supplying everyone their sweets and chocolates and all them goodies

00:16really. Yeah perfect, perfect. So yeah and it's something you've both been running since the

00:21start of the year, is that right? Just online? About February time, yeah. Okay, it's quite

00:25unique obviously because you're both quite young so would you kind of always wanted to own your

00:28own business, that was kind of in your ideas? That's me, that's me. I've always, I've dabbled

00:33in loads of different bits, tried a few businesses out. I was in the clothing industry for a little

00:38while with one of my friends and then just at the start of the year I just decided to do,

00:42just try and run a sweet business really, that's as simple as that. Yeah. The sweet shop up in

00:48Waterlooville closed down about a year ago, yeah so about a month or two after he closed

00:56we started doing it online. I got my food hygiene from home, tamped one of the rooms into a little

01:01office and sort of went from there really, started doing it for collections and delivery. Then we

01:07started doing events, we've done a few festivals over the summer and then it sort of took off,

01:11everyone was asking us to open a shop so we did really. It grew quite quickly, it went from

01:17friends and family making up their boxes for birthdays and sort of last Christmas and then

01:22all of a sudden it sort of hit the members of the public quite quick and we got really busy.

01:27It was really good. Very quickly yeah, starting from a few little bits for friends and family

01:31then we had a few birthdays, then we had to do some catering and then we started doing the festivals

01:37then we done more events and it sort of just got very busy really. Yeah. We had some days where

01:42we'd have to do two events in a day, I had to buy two lots of gazebos and tables and all the flags

01:47and equipment. We ended up in two different places at once at one point. We were so busy yeah,

01:53I'd have to wake up five o'clock in the morning, go to the first event, set her up early and then

01:58I'd go off and do another event and we were usually busy, over the summer we were so busy.

02:02Yeah perfect and what, obviously opening tomorrow, but what type of stuff are you going to be?

02:08Honestly it sounds a bit silly but we will literally have everything you can imagine,

02:12we've got all the fizzies, all the jellies, we've got all the traditional, we've got the hard boils,

02:17got all the lollies, we'll be set up for catering. We're going to have a variety in terms of eating

02:26preferences, so you'll have your sugar-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, all that sort of thing.

02:32Vegan, vegetarian, halal, every sort of eating preference, caters for every allergy, just doing

02:39the best we can really. Yeah perfect, obviously it all started online and with events, is that

02:44something you're going to keep going? Yeah we'll carry on with that definitely, yeah it brings more

02:48people to the shop, we get to go out to places that people wouldn't be able to reach us from,

02:52sometimes we go quite far, so it sort of brings us that reach to further places that

02:59they can also, we can, they can be retaining customers online, so if we're going somewhere

03:03really far, like say we was to go like on the out edges of London. We went to the New Forest

03:09not long ago, and everyone was really happy to see us, because there's not, we do it differently to

03:15sweet shops, you don't just sort of get your 100 grams from a jar and off you go, we do

03:19the full-on custom boxes, all the bags, everything like that, so it's a bit different to what

03:25a sweet shop is normally like. Just traditionally, we're taking a modern sort of turn on the traditional sweets

03:29essentially, we're just everywhere at the moment to be honest, everywhere, all over the

03:36place, being as busy as we can and keeping everyone happy really. Perfect, perfect, and obviously it's

03:41kind of small business Saturday this weekend, but yeah, so and how important was it, so you're

03:45both local, how important was you to open a shop locally? How important was it? Yeah, yeah, well to

03:51us it was incredibly important, I feel like to the members of public it seems like it was as well,

03:56we've had nothing but positive feedback really, and we didn't do it off of our own back, we done it

04:01because people asked us to, we was mobile and we've done events, but everyone didn't want to see

04:06us once a month at their local market or for example the schools when we do the fates, and

04:13they wanted to come whenever they could, whenever they're up in Waterlooville, they wanted to come

04:17pop in, grab their sweets, didn't want to have to order some of them, so some of them were just like

04:21open a shop, we'll come to your shop, we'll all support you, sort of thing, because that's just

04:25what the public wanted at the end of the day. Perfect, and obviously now kind of on the eve of it, how

04:30excited are you to actually open the doors? Very excited, yeah, it's been, it's been, it's been hard

04:36work, it's been a lot of hard work getting it ready, and we're not 100% ready as of yet, but

04:41we're going to pull a late shift tonight, and do a little bit of Christmas sort of thing, things that aren't

04:46the necessity to get open. Yeah, they're all like literally touches. Yeah, we've got a few things, like our

04:50sign writing hasn't been finished yet, so we've got banners going out, and flags, and things like that

04:55instead, but obviously we're opening tomorrow, we're going to get through the Christmas rush, and then

05:00when the few days off at Christmas, we'll sort of revamp the shop a little bit, add some more colours

05:05to the place, and add a bit more character to the shop. At the moment we've had to keep it a bit,

05:11a bit simple to be able to open in time. Yeah, so it's a bit more rustic. Yeah, a bit rustic, yeah, with all of the

05:18wood. I think people understand that. That's it, it's just wood and metal in here at the moment really, yeah.

05:24That's great, and when you are open, so it'll be seven days a week? Seven days a week, Monday to

05:27Saturday is standard hours for Waterlooville, which is 9am to 6pm, and on the Sundays they're

05:33reduced hours of 10am to 4pm. That's every day.

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