My name's Ben Sperry.
I'm the founder of Hairport UK and we're specialised in pop up blow dry bars for festivals and
events.
My name's Greg Duggan, one of the co-founders of Wheyhey Ice cream.
My name's Sophie and I run the illustrated nail.
We do nail art and we go round to festivals, events, press events.
I'm a Virgin Media Pioneer and we entered various competitions through VMP online and
we're fortunate enough to be invited to come along today and be here for the weekend, doing
everyone's hair for the festival.
Well this is a huge opportunity for us, it's the biggest event that we've done to date
and just the sheer amount of people here and the exposure for our brand is perfect.
So each person who comes in and has their hair done, leaves with a leaflet for us to
be able to do their hair at home, so it's perfect advertising for all of our mobile
services.
The services today are all dry styling, so we're doing blowdrys, updo's, plaits, all
that kind of thing.
To be honest I've been quite relaxed, I'm surprised how relaxed I have been.
Something always goes wrong, but you always make it work.
And luckily we've got a good team of people that are quite adaptable and will make it
work for us.
By the end of the weekend we hope that everybody will have seen our brand and everyone will
be aware of who we are and what we do and it will really help our business in the future.
We're here, we're lucky enough to be a Virgin Media Pioneer, it's been an unbelievable experience,
getting involved in all of this.
Giving out ice cream to everyone that's having an amazing time here.
Wheyhey Ice Cream is really about a new way of thinking about nutrition and what you put
into your body effectively.
I know a lot of products say that they're healthy and that they're good for you, but
WheyHey Ice Cream is genuinely good for you.
High protein, no sugar, very low carbohydrate, medium level of fat so it's an ice cream you
can feel good about eating and you should feel good about eating.
Wheyhey which is what the name is all about is about having a good time, looking after
your health and just enjoying yourself.
We had one of Richard Branson's representatives, one of his chefs I think on Necker Island
basically request Wheyhey Ice Cream on the back of Virgin Media Pioneers.
Being here, being able to be in The Louder Lounge with the brand, with the team which
are all friends as well has been an unreal experience.
This has really been a special time where I'll be eighty in my rocking chair, I'll be
reflecting on these moments.
Working for Virgin Media just a huge deal, like massive.
The benefit for The Illustrated Nail to come to The Louder Lounge is that I get to meet
loads of celebrities, we get to do their nails, we get to build up relationships with the
press.
The celebrities I've done are Rita Ora, Rhianna, Cate Blanchett, Nicole Scherzinger, I've done
MIA, Eddie Izzard, quite a few.
Little Mix came by earlier and we did their nails.
Today has been really really busy, there's still a queue, like quite a big queue that
we're going to have to stop soon because it's getting later.
One thing I'd really like to get from this weekend is building up a relationship with
Virgin Media, I would really like to continue that relationship.
Meeting new celebrities, people who might become my clients eventually, just having
a really good time, and having a really fun weekend, and making everyone happy by painting
their nails.
Anybody whose starting a business or thinking about starting their own business should look
at Virgin Media Pioneers as a starting place, just to look for advice, help, and see how
other people have started and how they've progressed so they get a good idea of what's
to come.
It's such a great opportunity to work with them and to come and do something like this
which has been amazing.