Roy Smith

I started to look at self-development with online courses, doing various diplomas at higher levels to progress within the holiday park industry, but it came to an end in 2022, unfortunately whenever I went for an interview, someone was always better than me and I would get pipped at the post – so I decided to look somewhere else.

I didn’t plan on starting my own business, I handed in my notice, and I was planning on joining another company. Then halfway through working my notice, my son who is a bricklayer was looking to sell his little Ford connect van and it went from there – I thought, you know what, I’m going to have a go on my own! So, I bought the van of my son, bought my first little tool bag and my vision then, in June 2022 was to be a handyman/gardener, I didn’t see anything beyond that, that was the service I was going to supply. Then in September I visited my first BNI meeting, I really liked it, liked the people in the room so joined the chapter on 1^st October 2022 and I’ve never looked back. The chapter gave me 20 plus business owners that were my personal advisors as such, that’s where I was advised to go into the fire safety stuff, so I started researching fire doors, fire extinguishers, fire door maintenance and realised there was a big gap in the market for fire door maintenance, there’s not a lot of local companies that offer it. So, there was a gap there and I needed to do it right!”