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Pocket Notes

Field recordings from creative micro-businesses exploring sustainable and regenerative practices.

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12. Rathlin Part Two: Wild / Life

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2025/09/22

Recorded in spaces and places on Rathlin Island including a ferry shelter, the Branson Centre and the West Light Seabird Centre.The episode opens with a reading by children’s book author and illustrator Paddy Donnelly and creator of the book “The Golden Hare.” The first conversation features Tom McDonnell, a Rathlin-based wildlife photographer whose passion for capturing photos of creatures great and small has taken him all over the world, from Alaska to Finland and his passion for visiting wild

01:41:32

11. Rathlin Part One: Ancestral / Retreat

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2025/09/22

Recorded in spaces and places on Rathlin Island including the Manor House Rathlin and the Rathlin Co-operative.We pop into Rathlin Co-operative, the shop that has everything including a range of creative objects made by Rathlin islanders and friends of the island. Aoife runs the shop and we join her as she works and chats and tells us about life on the island, younger and older creative entrepreneurs and what it's like to run a business on a small island.We speak with Oscar and his mum,

01:14:18

10. Kristen Robb Textiles & Worthy Earth Apparel

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2025/08/15

Recorded with Kristen Robb Textiles in a church suite at a leisure centre complex in Holywood.Emerging textile print designer Kristen Robb has just completed a remote Masters in Regenerative Design from University of the Arts London that has led to her looking at the world of design through the lenses of biodiversity, seasonality and her local environment. Setting up her own brand Worthy Earth Apparel, exploring her practice through dye experimentation and leading bespoke workshops are all part of

01:12:16

09. Sarah McCullough & OURSELVES studios

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2025/08/12

Recorded in the OURSELVES studio at home tucked away between the countryside and the sea.Sarah McCullough recently moved back to Northern Ireland after spending decades in London and now works both solo and with a remote team from her home studio. Through her own consultancy and OURSELVES studio, Sarah has amassed a wealth of experience working with global brands. Her speciality is helping them to craft their messages and engage their audiences in their products as well as to adopt more sustainable

00:14:11

08. Field Day Ireland tour (BONUS)

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2025/08/06

A short tour of the Field Day Ireland HQ at the end of a country road beside Monlough.

00:56:50

08. Field Day Ireland

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2025/08/06

Recorded at the Field Day Ireland HQ at the end of a country road beside Monlough.Alix from Field Day Ireland has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. Learning about retail business at a young age in her father’s shoe stores, she embarked on her own business over 20 years ago wanting to evoke the scents and atmosphere of “home.” In a converted mushroom warehouse, the business has gone from Alix the solo-preneur to a diversely skilled team working on candlemaking, marketing, packaging and more

00:55:43

07. Little Fox Events

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2025/07/31

Recorded at Boundary Brewing in Portview Trade Centre, a space which plays host to many Little Fox Events.Little Fox Events' Caroline Baker is all about curating markets, pop ups and gatherings that champion local, independent businesses. Caroline believes that sustainable and regenerative action could be more widespread if we can use more engaging and positive messaging to get people on board. Recently she has started to look at how she - as an event organiser - can make a difference in terms

00:58:18

06. Jenny Eva Design

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2025/07/25

Recorded in Jenny Eva Design’s home studio in Bangor.In the Jenny Eva Design Studio in Bangor, creative director and graphic designer Jenny Rusk works remotely with a wide range of companies and has a particular love of projects in the food and environmental spaces.Jenny is passionate about how designers - particularly small business owners and freelancers like her - can still make a genuine sustainable impact on the world.Recently celebrating her business’ 5 year anniversary, Jenny has lots of

01:20:29

05. David Keys Sustainable Woodworking

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2025/07/16

Recorded at David Keys’ woodworking shed in rural Moneymore in Mid-Ulster with a soundtrack of insects and birds!David’s journey into woodworking started with making a single coaster and soon turned into a regular hobby that helped with his mental well-being. A decade later, the hobby is now a business and David has gone deep into learning everything there is to know about the skills, tools, heritage and techniques that woodworking encompasses.As well as creating beautiful products from sustainable

00:50:04

04. Taylor Yates

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2025/06/26

Recorded at the Taylor Yates store on Bushmills village’s Main Street. Karen, Ellen and now - Tom - are the family business Taylor Yates. They are redefining what it means to be a modern luxury brand through creating thoughtful handbags with a beautiful purpose, as well as expanding to a wider range of lifestyle products. Taylor Yates has progressed from starting out in The Designerie’s creative shared space to having their own store and they have ambitions to grow their studio and repurpose waste

01:03:22

03. Belfast Bow Co.

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2025/06/18

Recorded at the Belfast Bow Co. Studio in Historic Dromore.Belfast Bow Co. was founded by wife Karen and husband David initially as a “pocket money” company and they have grown it slowly and organically to include customers from all over the world today. They are all about attention to detail - from the Liberty fabrics and linen they use, to using the tiniest scrap fabrics to create new products, to selecting the right people for their team - and if they don’t know how to do something, they are

00:52:10

02. Boom! Studios

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2025/06/08

Recorded in Boom! Studios in the heart of Bangor.Boom! Studios’ Co-Founder and Studio Director Marianne has spent the past decade on projects supporting and celebrating Bangor’s creative and cultural scene. Breathing new life into empty and disused spaces whilst supporting local creatives such as Jenni Robinson Art, the Boom Stitchers and the Past The Label sketch comedy group, she has created a close-knit community and recently helped to set up the new initiative Late Night Art Bangor. Marianne is

01:05:35

01. Hundred Studio

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2025/05/29

Recorded in Hundred Studio on the Ormeau Road, BelfastHundred Studio are an independent creative company creating and curating experiential design for their clients including Sidemen, Exemplar Coffee and the newly opened Charlie’s Pizza-by-the-slice on the Ormeau Road. Craig, Gregg and Kaia’s “open door” studio policy, highly collaborative approach and passion for Belfast’s creative scene is what really gets them going. They’ve also become a B Corp and we delve into the whats, the whys and the how

00:00:49

00. Introduction

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2025/05/29

Pocket Notes takes you into the studios, homes and spaces of creative micro-businesses across Northern Ireland. We explore the specific approaches each business takes to sustainability and regenerative design whilst hearing about their work, lives and projects. You may hear some traffic, music - and even birds - as we immerse ourselves in the business owners’ workdays. You’ll also hear the “real-ness”, the humour, the challenges and the joy of what it is like to run a creative micro-business.Created

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