The Mum of two amazing adults, I'm very proud to have started my little business in later life.  Having worked in a school for 18 years as a Finance and Business Manager it was time for a complete change.  I've always liked to do my bit with recycling but that was really as far as it went.  After visiting my daughter in Canada in 2019 we regularly visited a lovely little eco shop, this was run completely by volunteers, people who felt passionate about helping the planet.  It was such a refreshing concept.  It made me more aware of the types of changes I could personally make in my everyday life and I didn't know of similar shops in the UK.  I felt the best way to share my message was to take my products to the customers, and hence Dorseteco was born. 

 

I attend Markets and Events across Dorset and surrounding counties and can be found under my gazebo with all my lovely products at some amazing venues.  There are some refill shops locally which I support but love my business model of low overheads

and taking the products to the people, rather than restrictive expensive overheads

and waiting for the customers to come to me.

 

  I've chosen products that I feel are easy swaps and I test drive everything I sell so that I can compare items for customers and advise them accordingly to the products I've found to work really well, not replacing any that I don't truly believe in.  I'm so chuffed that through this journey a lot of my personal friends and family have all made changes too, it makes me feel strongly that accumulatively we can actually make a difference.  The business is a small family run business with additional support from close friends to help out at busier events and packing parcels for me as and when a little extra help is needed. We offer free local delivery within 15 miles of our base in Winterborne Whitechurch. 

 

As I've now been selling eco friendly products for nearly 5 years I've found that they really last a long time, thus restricting the need for customers to purchase replacements for a long time.  The irony , an issue with my business model that regularly makes me smile as that's the way it should be,

going to show that these products really are better for the planet!

 

I hope you enjoy looking through our range of products and I hope we can tempt you to change some of your habits to more eco friendly alternative products.