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Bradwell Blacksmiths - The Iron Lady

bradwell blacksmiths - the iron lady

Worthing

Natalie Bradwell is The Iron Lady, taking on any job in metal, except cars and horseshoes!  From working on docks and muddy sites, to breweries and farms, to chaotic sculpture studios and workshops, The Iron Lady has gained a range of experience in a short time. Spanning food, agriculture, oil and gas, manufacturing and arts industries – thanks to her ability to see metal as a material and communicate with clients how metal works for them. This obsession with metals; steels, copper, aluminium etc, the chemistry of change and our ability to manipulate are what drives Natalie to search for the next challenge and the next opportunity to learn. After some 15 years of experience, The Iron Lady frequently undertook private work whilst working for other companies – it all started with a falling down hay store with a salvaged forge, anvil, table, stick welder and grinder, and a trusty van. Now at her third workshop, Bradwell Blacksmiths is finally a full time concern, apprentice in tow and a light industrial workshop which is also a place of learning, experimentation, art and creativity. Most recently, The Iron Lady has started running courses in welding, fabrication, metalwork and blacksmithing, for beginners, companies and those wanting to improve their existing skills. With space and equipment for 4 people at a time, Natalie is now sharing what she has learnt from all the craftsmen and women from her past metal adventures. And so to many more adventures in metal for The Iron Lady!

Fireball Beach Volleyball Devon

fireball beach volleyball devon

5.0(1)

Braunton

Fireball Beach Volleyball was founded by me, Sam Dunbavin, in late 2019. Here’s a little bit about us, and how Fireball was created. In autumn 2019, I’d just spent my first summer competing and training full time, and I’d decided that I wanted to try to forge a path for myself to make a career and a living from coaching the sport I loved: beach volleyball. So that’s what I did: I set up Fireball Beach Volleyball, took over the lease of Fireball Beach, in London, and started creating a series of beach volleyball events that would happen over the course of 2020 at our venue in London. Then the pandemic hit, and rather than living in London with no income, I moved back home to Devon, and started figuring out how that would affect Fireball. I realised that, in order to really spread the sport, staying put in one venue wouldn’t do. I wanted to spread my love for beach volleyball to as many places in the UK as possible; I wanted to help grow the game, and bring the game to pockets of the country that often don’t see it. So that’s what we’re about now. In 2022, after two years of massive growth, learning, feedback, more learning, listening and asking questions, we are still following that goal. We are aiming to take our Southwest Series, our flagship tournament series in the Southwest and Wales, to eight different beaches this year. We will be running a beach volleyball camp in every single school holiday, to make sure that all those juniors who love to learn from us can do that. We will be expanding the junior sessions we are running in London, after the incredible demand last year, and adding some regular adult training sessions and leagues, too. We’ll be running an elite series for the country’s top players, including our Barry Island Grand Slam. And we will keep taking our beach volleyball camps across the country, spreading the beach volleyball love and knowledge. Of course, I wouldn’t be able to do that without an incredible team, whom I’m proud to have invested lots of time and energy into. I’m firmly of the opinion that, in order to grow beach volleyball properly, we need to invest in people. Coaches, referees, organisers and parents are the lifeblood of the sport in our country, and we are proud to be supporting them-in 2022, we will be issuing bursaries to put five of our coaches through courses. We are also launching our bursary programme for kids, where they can apply to come to our events for free if money is a barrier to them attending. Just some of the small ways I’m proud to be giving back to the sport we all love.