Business Was A Real Tonic For Nurse Julie

   Swindon Business - Business News - July 1996

Enterprising Julie Nicholls is well on the way to achieving her goal in life.

This 28-year old has already made her mark on the business world by being the North Wiltshire winner of the 1994 Live-Wire Business Start-Up Awards and more recently a finalist in the Wiltshire Business of the Year awards organised by the Evening Advertiser.

Julie set up and runs the Natural Therapy Centre at the Bentley Centre, Stratton Road,
Swindon.

She is qualified in remedial massage, which is recognised to help back and sciatic pain,
arthritis, sport injuries and stress. Julie is also a qualified nurse but decided that working
in the health service was not for her because she wanted her own business.

She began working for herself at the Chiropractic Clinic in Swindon ,before last year
moving into the Bentley Centre and finding 12 other alternative therapists to
join her. Now, she alone has a 135-strong client list which is growing all the time.

She said: “My long term ambition is to find suitable premises that can be turned into a
devoted centre for alternative therapies. We have just completed our first year here and the
best thing that has happened is that we are now becoming known. My aim is to win
a new client every week and so far I have managed to achieve that.”

The two therapy rooms that Julie rents at The Bentley Centre are shared between all the therapists who have been allocated time slots to use them.

Julie is keen to develop her business with companies in Swindon by taking the Centre’s services to them, instead of the client coming to the centre.

She also offers clients a mail order service for orthopaedic aids, herbal products and food supplements as well as gift vouchers for any of the therapies available.

She can be contacted on 01793495551 or visit  www.body-mind-coaching.co.uk

Julie Keeps The Pressure Up At Work

    Evening Advertiser 6th April 1994

Julie Nicholls knows all about the stresses and strains of running a business.

Her business is to help others overcome these problems. Called Natural Therapy, the potential of her firm has already been recognised by Livewire, the business organisation for young people sponsored by Shell.

Livewire has presented Julie, 25, with an award for the best new business in North Wiltshire.

Julie, a registered general nurse launched the business last autumn under the wing of Great Western enterprise- the Swindon-based small business help organisation.

She saw a gap in the market for remedial massage and realised many people needed help overcoming the pressures of modern business life, from stress to repetitive strain injury.

So far she has worked mainly on an individual basis but hopes soon to sign up with local firms to help employees. She is also going to work soon from the chiropractic clinic in Swindon Road, Stratton St. Margaret soon.

Belgian-born Julie had to submit her business plan to the Livewire judges before being entered for the award.

Remedial Massage, she says, has long been ignored as a way of relieving stress and helping conditions such as arthritis and back pain- as well as relaxing stressed-out business people.

Anyone wishing to find out more can contact Julie on 01793 495551 or visit body-mind-coaching.co.uk