New Found Hope

Fortunately, God had a plan.✝️ It’s with great joy and gratitude that I share my next adventure: I’ve joined New Found Hope, a Scottish therapeutic footwear brand, as their Creative Marketing Manager. I’ve been working with the team since July, and it’s an honour to officially join founder Nathan Dudley on the mission he’s been driving for the past five years, developing the world’s first tiptoe-stopping trainer👟 to help over 50 million toe-walking kids worldwide🌎, empowering them to walk one step stronger!🏃🏻♂️➡️ As we gear up for our Kickstarter launch🚀 next month, I’m excited to contribute to building a truly purpose-driven brand from the ground up, and deeply thankful for Nathan’s trust.💙 This milestone wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible people who stood by and supported me.💐#gratitude My professional coach from the University of Edinburgh Business School, Marco, has been both a mentor and a friend. To my friends in recruitment, your generosity with your time and wisdom was indispensable, especially Brian Fraser and Jonathan Watt (of MAC Recruit Group Ltd), as well as Susan Lindsay, Matt Dodgson, and Tim King. And to my network of dependable friends, mentors, experts, and professionals in Edinburgh🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and across the UK 🇬🇧, your support, faith, feedback, and insights guided me as I found my place in this new market: Adam, Charlie Bell, Elliot, Evita-Marie, Jake, Karina Mazur, Khushi, Matthew, Mirabelle, Ritwik, Ganesan Selvakumar, Sham, Suga, Tom, Victoria Crompton. Here’s to purposeful work and building something that matters.🌄 🛐God is great! #careerupdate #nextadventure #newjob #marketing #startup

Fortunately, God had a plan.✝️ It’s with great joy and gratitude that I share my next adventure: I’ve joined New Found Hope, a Scottish therapeutic footwear brand, as their Creative Marketing Manager. I’ve been working with the team since July, and it’s an honour to officially join founder Nathan Dudley on the mission he’s been driving for the past five years, developing the world’s first tiptoe-stopping trainer👟 to help over 50 million toe-walking kids worldwide🌎, empowering them to walk one step stronger!🏃🏻♂️➡️ As we gear up for our Kickstarter launch🚀 next month, I’m excited to contribute to building a truly purpose-driven brand from the ground up, and deeply thankful for Nathan’s trust.💙 This milestone wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible people who stood by and supported me.💐#gratitude My professional coach from the University of Edinburgh Business School, Marco, has been both a mentor and a friend. To my friends in recruitment, your generosity with your time and wisdom was indispensable, especially Brian Fraser and Jonathan Watt (of MAC Recruit Group Ltd), as well as Susan Lindsay, Matt Dodgson, and Tim King. And to my network of dependable friends, mentors, experts, and professionals in Edinburgh🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and across the UK 🇬🇧, your support, faith, feedback, and insights guided me as I found my place in this new market: Adam, Charlie Bell, Elliot, Evita-Marie, Jake, Karina Mazur, Khushi, Matthew, Mirabelle, Ritwik, Ganesan Selvakumar, Sham, Suga, Tom, Victoria Crompton. Here’s to purposeful work and building something that matters.🌄 🛐God is great! #careerupdate #nextadventure #newjob #marketing #startup

New Found Hope Meeting with schuh 👀💚 I had the pleasure of having a meeting with the CEO Colin Temple at the schuh Headquarters earlier today! ☀️ We discussed the journey New Found Hope has been on, the upcoming launch and stocking possibilities for the Aerlos 👟‼️ Another crazy day in the NFH adventure…“The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him” (Psalm 37:23) Thankyou to everyone that has helped us along the way! And a special shout out to Evelyn McDonald and Scottish EDGE for opening this door for us. ☺️🙏🏼 This is just the start of the journey and I’m sure, many more conversations! 🙌🏼 Join us on our mission to empower kids of all abilities to spring forward with NEW FOUND HOPE in their soles!! 💥 #schuh #ceo #newfoundhope #aerlos #meeting #footwearindustry #footwear

Very excited to share that New-Found-Hope has WON the Scottish EDGE Circular Economy Special Award!!! This is the BIGGEST achievement of my whole entire 23 years of life and a crowning achievement of all the work put in by the team over these past 2 years. I feel overjoyed to share this with you. It hasn't really set in yet how GAME-CHANGING this is/will be for New-Found-Hope. But one thing I know for sure is that this is rocket fuel in our engines as we sprint towards our Kickstarter launch later this summer (sign up for VIP List on our website!), helping us to empower more kids of all abilities to spring forward with New-Found-Hope in their soles! I want to give all glory to my personal Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, for this award. The Love and blessings God has showered on our company and team are beyond my wildest dreams! This one truly felt like David v Goliath. God is my firm foundation, in victory and in defeat. The Heavenly Father has supplied all our needs, and we are truly blessed. I would also like to dedicate this award to my Dad for his unwavering support and friendship on this entrepreneurship journey for the last 5 years. He has helped NFH with all things Finance and Administration, while also pitching in in so many other areas. One of the smartest people I have ever met, and irreplaceably brilliant at what he does. Love you lots. Also, we could certainly not have done any of this without the support of my loving family and some very caring, generous and fantastically inspiring people who have helped us along the way: The Team: Kristy Finlayson Paul Dudley The Judges: Sheila Flavell CBE Andy Lothian 🔴🟡🔵🟢 Roan Lavery Angela Scott FRSE Alexandra Lawson Garry Boyle Jack McGill The Scottish Edge Team: Kevin Walls Evelyn McDonald Andy Palmer The R&D Lab Team: Vedad Abdolkhani Marietta Van Der Linden Kavi Jagadamma Derek Santos Carolyn Low Cathy Bulley Queen Margaret University The Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Dundee : Cat Ward Brian McNicoll Christopher DJ Smyth Victoria Oziri Susan Walker University of Dundee The Lions: Gary Spicer Shell Perris Andrew Edmiston Tim Jupp Gemma Hunt chris spicer Mentorship and Guidance: Kate Forbes MSP Raymond Liao Jack Chalkley 🎯 Shaun Phillips Owen Wyatt Lewis Allison Richard Cormack Corrigan

We have our Finalists! Meet the fantastic businesses who have successfully pitched their way to a place in the #EDGE25 Final on 9th May! Will you be joining us to see them compete for up to £100k in funding from the £1.5m prize pot? Get EARLY BIRD tickets and more info at: scottishedge.com/edge25 Meet the Finalists: Aphelion Industries Ardent Training Augmentum Media Bookr CEXAL CloudForest Everyday People Ltd FunCredz GLITCHERS Goat Rodeo Goods Green Crop Tech Haar Sauna Highland Domes Inglaze LTD Kathleen Reilly Ltd New-Found-Hope NOMW Health OMNIA Performance Quas Drinks Rethink Carbon Rosa Lifestyle The Cycling Gardeners Unleash the Dogs Ltd Vanilla Farms Ltd