How I Made It: 'I career switched and turned my hobby into a thriving business'

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With the sustainable pre-loved market growing, this week we’re speaking to Charlotte Staerck, CEO and co-founder of Handbag Clinic, who restores tattered, worn and stained bags to their former glory, and sells pre-owned designer finds.

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Through chance, she met her now husband who worked in the restoring business – but he knew little about passion at the time. Speaking to Metro.co.uk, she says: ‘I knew in my heart that my true passion was for luxury handbags and it felt instinctively right to quit my job and start over.’Here’s how she made it happen:I’m not sure why, I grew up in a tiny village outside of Newcastle, and my mum wasn’t interested at all.

I was fiercely independent and my career was going from strength to strength but my passion was always luxury handbags – I would spend ages browsing the preowned market and buying and selling at the right time so I could covet the latest ‘it’ bag.I was always super independent and I’d worked hard to get where I was in my career so it wasn’t a snap decision I made overnight.

Once I was set on this decision, I started researching non-stop, for about a year, until I knew everything there was to possibly know about bags.We began investment raising initially through crowdfunding back in 2018 and raised over £300,000. In the summer last year, we secured an £800k investment.

 

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