Tickle Tots Blog

Many of you will know that in 2018 I appeared on Dragons Den, something that I feel hugely proud of and I am glad that I took part in. It pushed me to do things I would never have normally done and totally put me out of my comfort zone. Although our Dragon decided not to proceed with his investment, Tickle Tots did not crumble and simply grew in ways that I could not have imagined. One of the highlights of which was launching our Nappies into 80 Waitrose stores last Septemb

The call came, I was in, I was going to be pitching live to the Dragons! There are not many entrepreneurs that get to say that. What followed was months of work! Getting together everything that would be needed to appear on the show as well as trying to commit to memory, my pitch, and all the figures. As a family we have always been fan’s of the show, but I never realised what went into actually getting on the show. The date of my pitch came around very fast, and again, I rop

It was another miserable morning when myself and Jade (I made her come with me for moral support) set off in the car to not so sunny Manchester. This in itself was no easy task, we first had to drop our multitude of Kids and Dogs off at various childcare establishments! So we packed ourselves, a flask of tea and a pack of Haribo into the car, and off we went. The journey was relatively straight forward apart from the car de-powering a few times on the motorway. I am renowned

I am sat in my office on a grey January day, slippers on and enjoying a quick cuppa in-between trying to cross off a trillion jobs on my to do list. So of course what do you do when your busy, you write a blog! So this time 12 months ago I was doing something quite different to today and this is the reason I am so busy right now. This time last year I was heading to my first meeting with the team behind Dragons Den. In early 2017, I received a phone call out of the blue. It w