The Fixer - Featured in the Daily Express

Aug. 5, 2008 - PRLog -- Press release - Daily Express, 10/07/08

African Adventure is within my grasp

For Kimberley o-callaghan,35, from Yorkshire, a chance incident on the beach led her to buy an African game reserve.

Iv always dreamed of one day running my on game reserve in Africa. For years, I went on volunteer holidays to Namibia where I fell in love with the wildlife and the local communities living in a traditional thatched hut and going ski-diving. It was such a different life to my one back home.
   With my demanding job in the technology industry, moving to Africa was a crazy fantasy. It costs around £500,000 to buy a game reserve and then I would need to cover running costs and time to set it up. So I just got on with my day job.
   Everything changed when I was on holiday in Barbados in 2006 with my friend Rachel. I kept asking myself “what do I really want to be doing?” If I could start my own business, I reckoned I could sell it after a few years to pay for a game reserve. I just needed a business idea.
   We went to a café, leaving out beach stuff, but when we came back our belongings had washed into the sea. We had to replace what was lost. It felt like we were wasting precious holiday time and I wished someone would just do it for us.
   Suddenly I realised – people would pay others to run errands for them. There was no such service in the north of England where I lived – maybe this was the business idea id been waiting for.
   Back in England, I quit my job and launched my lifestyle management company The Fixer. Two year on I have four employees and the business is a success. I also found a £500,000, seven-hectare site, and an old farm in Limpopo on the South Africa and Botswana border. When I visited the area, I thought: “I know this place – this is where I belong.”
   I have my finances ready and, this August, I’m going to put a proposal to buy it. I eventually aim to move there permanently.. I’ve planned everything, from providing employment for the locals, right down to the panel designs for the toilet.
   If I hadn’t gone on holiday, I might still be sitting at my old desk. As it Is, I’m counting down the days until I move to Africa.

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NOTES TO EDITORS: The Fixer, owned by Lifestyle Management Concierge Services Limited (LCMS) are one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies, providing Lifestyle Management Concierge Services. Recently nominated for New Business of the Year by York Press Awards 2007, the company has established an enviable reputation in the marketplace, as well as forging ahead with a rigorous and challenging Franchise programme, that has attracted interest and demand in the North of England to date. Watch this space!

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