Jan 12, 2009

Couple defy recession by opening new age gift shopBy Abby AlfordWalesOnline.co.uk

In South Wales, as across the rest of the UK, countless jobs have already been lost to the credit crunch. But there is life after redundancy. Today, chief reporter Abby Alford speaks to the people behind two businesses which have been born out of adversity

Gail Kaye may be a medium, but the credit crunch has bitten so deep even she cannot predict when the hard times will end.

What she does know, however, is that opening a shop with her husband Graham during the worst financial crisis in generations was the right decision.

Even with their entire future riding on the success of spiritualist gift shop Amara’s – the couple spent all of Graham’s redundancy money on setting up the store – Gail said she is determined to keep a positive outlook about the coming months.

“Everything is riding on this,” said Gail, who lives in Pontypridd with Graham, 47. “We should be absolutely terrified, but we are not because even though we have put everything into it, something tells me we will be OK.

“You have to be positive and believe it will work.”

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