The Gloucester Business Improvement District (BID) has appointed two highly experienced and independent local business owners, Angela Lovell and Toby Wooldridge, to join the BID’s Board of Directors where they will be able to use their extensive knowledge and experience to help drive forward the city economy.
Angela Lovell runs an amazing variety and number of local businesses.
A trained Aesthetician, a qualified midwife and a prescriber of medicines at Gloucester Royal Hospital Angela also operates her own medical facial aesthetics clinic from above the Vine Bar and Kitchen – that she also runs – in Eastgate Street, a handsomely restored 17th Century, grade II listed landmark building.
Toby Wooldridge and his wife Ann are co-owners of the very popular Peppers Coffee Shop in Bull Lane, located just off Westgate Street where they also have property interests.
Before launching Peppers, Toby was a re-insurance specialist managing an office that handled a wide range of very high value commercial claims.
Toby is also captain of the Gloucester City Cycling Club and Mrs Wooldridge was the first British woman, in 2009, to complete the ‘Race Across America’, a 3,020 mile-long Trans-Continental Ultra Marathon Time Trial!
“There’s obviously some very special people in Gloucester’s business community”, says BID Chairman, Kieron Bates, Manager of the historic Fountain Inn in Westgate Street. “And we are all now working together, alongside the city council and other partner organisations, to help our members and colleagues recover from COVID-19, promote Gloucester and re-boot the local economy.”
