Maria Kovalikova baked her first cakes at 14, one every Sunday for her family in a small Slovak village. Decades later, during COVID, she taught herself ...

What creates an artist? Andrew Gow was born on Aldershot Military Base, learned to paint watching his father work in watercolours, and now paints Grand Dukes ...

From a medieval town north of Rome to a sun-drenched studio at Smithbrook Kilns, Virna Pasquinelli has made hats for royalty, celebrities and the stage. She ...

Meet Gordon Scoullar of The Wood Cave at Smithbrook Kilns, a craftsman whose journey from York to the Himalayas to Surrey shaped his bespoke furniture.

At 100, Second World War Royal Navy veteran Henry William Rice has become President of the Cranleigh and District Royal British Legion. From a Clapham ...

Matt Newell, Director of Format Garden Rooms There’s a conversation I’ve had many times over the past few years, and it usually starts in much the same ...

John Gaines, Master Builder & Craftsman I was born in 1958, the youngest of 2 boys, in a bungalow, in the middle of woodland, right on the border of ...

Rosslyn Doney, Food Bank Co-ordinator, on faith, community and the quiet courage it takes to begin. I was born at the old St Luke’s Hospital in Guildford, ...

Erik Heemskerk - Curate at St Nicholas Church I didn’t grow up imagining that one day I would be an Anglican priest, raising 3 young daughters and serving ...

Jamie Thomson, Director of Thomson Properties If there is one thing I have learned from growing up in rural Zimbabwe to starting a business in suburban ...

Emily Verardi, Founder and CEO of The Teen Project I grew up on the Isle of Man, a small island in the Irish Sea with a very close-knit community and ...

Calvin Cheung - Photographer If you’d told me years ago that I would leave a successful banking career in Hong Kong to become a full-time photographer in ...