We are still doing the finishing touches. But this site now contains our most recent news and events. We are using the summer holiday season to move our site to a new host, upgrade to the latest version of the content management system we use (WordPress), and switched to a [...]

Made redundant at 52, and suffering from Myalgic Encephalopathy (ME), the Job Centre told Tony Palmer that his chances of paid employment were slim. Tony took matters into his own hands and started his own engraving business. Crystal Mountain Glass sells engraved awards, wedding gifts, decanters, bowls, and paperweights, as [...]

Angela Ricards, Purely Bowen   Angela, 55, is a qualified Bowen massage therapist treating horses, dogs and people to help them with pain relief. She discovered the Bowen Technique as a client, having chronic pain issues herself following a car accident.    “It wasn’t a light bulb moment, more a [...]

Bob Rawal, 57, contacted PRIME in April 2010 and was sent a free start-up pack. Later that month he went onto apply for a Zopa-PRIME Olderpreneur loan. Bob decided to start up his own business after being made redundant twice in three years. Up until this point he had spent [...]

Phil Butler 59, had spent 30 years working for various large companies in senior sales and marketing positions. He’d been responsible for negotiating and looking after major contracts in a long and varied career. He wanted to use his 30 years of experience to do something different but was not [...]

If you’ve started your own business or have become self-employed after the age of 50, here’s a chance to get some free publicity. We’d like to hear from you. We’re looking for stories to put up on the case-studies section of this web site. There are two ways of entering. [...]

The BBC 2 programme talks to a woman who proves you don’t have to be young to be entrepreneurial. Daksha Kumar founded her own company in her late 50s and now, aged 65, is doing very well. If you have missed the programme you can see it from Thursday at [...]

When PA, Sharon Lawrence, was made redundant at 50, she decided to go it alone and set up her own business as a virtual personal assistant (VPA). Flying Changes PA offers independent secretarial support for £19 – £23 an hour. Sharon says, ‘The more you stick at it, the better [...]

Olderpreneur Suzy Kilgour, 53 has become a specialist fitness instructor, after seven years in the charity sector. Suzy Kilgour runs Walking Workouts – a fitness business specialising in power walking and low impact body conditioning. Group sessions take place on Clapham Common and cost £14 an hour. Personal training comes [...]

A group of crafty over 50s have proved that four heads are better than one, by setting up creative resource website www.makeitandmendit.com. Clare Flynn, Clare O’Brien, Anne Caborn, and Hillary Bruffell joined forces in January 2009, and have since established a strong following of almost 2,500 people on social networking [...]

After 30 years in finance and leasing, 58-year-old Robert White has started a new trade as a domestic energy assessor. West Bromwich man Bob spent 30 years in finance and leasing, as sales manager, business development manager, and managing director. With the recession the market declined, and Bob found himself [...]

Cousins Jackie Hatton, 52 and Denise Lever, 50 have set up a gift shop in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. The shop offers affordable country lifestyle gifts, which can be anything from handmade soap to second hand furniture. Taking it in turns to man the counter, Denise and Jackie each enjoy a [...]