22 BusIness AUGUST 2019
FEATURE
How
Holly
makes it
happen
From her dining room table to a £3m
turnover business - Shelina Begum meets
events entrepreneur Holly Moore
I
t all started on her dining
room table – but from there
Holly Moore has built her
events company into a £3.5m
turnover business.
Inspiring entrepreneur
Holly has done it all without
any external investment, preferring to
build her Make Events business
organically over the past seven years
through hard work and perseverance.
She now counts some of the UK’s
biggest businesses among her clients
including BetFred, Puma, AutoTrader,
Vimto, LNER and The Hut Group.
And this month Holly, 42, has
unveiled her proudest achievement yet
- the House of Make – a dedicated new
office space in Wilmslow for her
expanding team which aims to inspire
both staff and clients.
Holly started her own business after
facing and fighting a five year mental
health battle – and she hopes to inspire
any others facing difficult times with
what CAN be achieved.
Holly says: “I had poor mental health
for five years, but I overcame it. I had
pioneering group therapy, and I’ve now
been free of those problems for eight
years and on no medication. Before
then, I was very much a yes person.
But when I got well, it made me a
stronger person. I always had this
belief I was going to do something with
my life.
“When I got well, I felt like I’d lost five
years of my life. That’s what has made
me so passionate about mindset and
strategies now. I say to people I work
with now, I wish you could have seen
me, how I was, to how I am now, I wish
I had a video because you wouldn’t
even recognise me.”
She left her job in corporate events at
Astra Zeneca in Macclesfield in 2011 to
go freelance for a year.
Holly says: “I could go back and do
long hours and be dictated to, or set up
on my own, and I came up with Make
Events.”
She set up Make Events from her
home in Wilmslow in July 2012. She
says: “I started literally at the dining
room table with two clients and just got
on the phones.”
Then came a fateful meeting with
Continued overleaf Holly Moore of Make Events