National Hairdressing Awards Event

text : On 29th november 2011 Louisa (MD) and Kerry (Deputy MD) attended the Schwartzkopf Hairdressing Awards Dinner held at the Grosvenor Hotel in London. This was a prestigious event and both feel that golds should enter the competition to get an award next year.

November 2011

October 2011

golds goes International

Louisa (Managing Director and Creative Director of golds) recently attended a society wedding in Sicily and created special wedding hairstyles for the bride and bridesmaid. Louisa's friend Lady Cressida Ward who works in Paris had a whirlwind romance with French politician Ludovic Toro which led to a stylish wedding ceremony in the foothills of Mount Etna in Sicily, followed by a reception in a Palatia in the hills. Louisa styled the hair of both the bride - Cressida, and bridesmaid Ellie.

September 2011

August 2011

Golds Summer Party 2011 - August 21st at Wayside

golds baby Former Top Stylist Kate Mallinson with her baby Layla Sue. Kate left golds in 2009 to move to Germany where her husband William is posted.

Congratulations Style director Kathryn from our Barnstaple salon married Chris in May 2010 and the couple had their honeymoon in the Maldives

July 2011

Congratulations to Tash our stylist at Ilfracombe on achieving her NVQ Level 3 in Hairdressing.
Tash achieved this through attending Petroc college and gaining experience in the salon.

March 2011

On March 30th Hair Industry Guru Peter Lunn visited Barnstaple to provide an inspirational training day for golds staff. Peter trained under Vidal Sassoon, managed a chain of leading London salons and for many years has been a leading international coach for hairdressing teams. The day was very successful with interactive staff participation and everyone gained much knowledge about improving the business and providing a better service to clients. The Beauty Therapists also attended and found that much of the seminar applied to their services also.		Peter Lunn with the golds directors. L to R Kerry Whitefield, Peter Lunn, Louisa Lang, Brian Sherwin
		Peter Lunn directs a staff roleplay session

January 2011

Kat Dart, a senior stylist in our Barnstaple Salon, was awarded 'Student of the Year 2010 - NVQ 3 Hairdressing' by Petrok College.

This was Kat's 4th award from the college since she commenced her hairdressing training. The photo shows Kat holding her four awards. We congratulate Kat who did her apprenticeship with golds and has progressed to being a senior stylist. We feel sure that she will continue to progress to become one of golds leading stylists.

December 2010

The golds girls and Brian letting their hair down at the golds Christmas party in the Barnstaple Hotel.

Congratulations to Rachel and Dave

Congratulations to our Barnstaple receptionist Rachel who married Dave on 29th December 2010.

golds production line
Four members of the golds team had their first babies during 2010. Megan and Claire work in the Barnstaple salon, Natalie in the
Ilfracombe salon and Shelly in the Beauty salon. Congratulations to all four and we look forward to each of you returning to work in 2011.

Natalie and Mitchell.		Shelly and Sidney.
Megan and Bobby		Claire and Poppy

October 2010

Golds sponsored the 2010 Aegon ProAm Ladies tennis Tournament held at the Tarka centre in Barnstaple from 5th October to 10th October 2010. The winning champion was Alison Riske (USA) who beat Johanna Larsson (SWEDEN) , last years winner in an exciting final.

The doubles championship was won by Andrea Hlavackova (Czech) and Michaella Krajicek (Netherlands) who beat Sandra Klemenschits Austria) and Tatjana Malek (Germany).

Golds was proud to be associated with this important tournament which gives the people of North Devon an opportunity to see top level tennis with the up and coming international lady players.

August 2010

Congratulations

Tash, Tina and Cat

Three members of golds staff have successfully completed their apprenticeships and gained their NVQ Level 2 in Hairdressing. Tina and Cat at Barnstaple Salon and Tash at Ilfracombe salon now become Junior Stylists

Tennis Tournament
Golds is again this year sponsoring the Aegon Ladies Tennis Tournament being held in the Tarka Tennis Centre in Barnstaple in the first week in October 2010. Many of the leading up-and-coming players from the UK and Europe will be taking part. This is an event not to be missed if you have an interest in tennis.

May 2010

AMIGOS Fashion Show

On May 13th a fashion show was held in the Barnstaple Hotel in aid of AMIGOS, a charity which trains young orphans in Uganda to transform their lives.

Golds was pleased to do the hairstyles of the models at the fashion show and the show was attended by many of our staff.

golds celebrates its 10th anniversery
In spring 2000 golds hair salon at 12 Gammon Walk, Barnstaple opened its doors for the first time. The business started with 5 stylists and 1 beauty therapist and with an ambition to become the leading salon in Barnstaple.

The business, which focused on quality, customer service and price, quickly became established and gradually expanded. After 3 years golds moved its beauty services to a new salon at 23 Pilton Street and expanded the Barnstaple salon to accommodate 15 stylist stations. After another few years the Barnstaple salon was re-furbished and the number of stations increased to 18. Meanwhile the beauty salon increased its staff to 2 therapists. In September 2008 golds opened a new salon in Ilfracombe with a staff of 7.

Many of golds clients have been with us over the ten years and many more became clients over the years. We thank all of our clients for their custom and look forward to welcoming new clients in the years ahead. The salons are focused on quality and customer service. All of our stylists and beauty therapists are fully qualified and are given additional training every year. We have 5 apprentices every year and train them to become our stylists of the future.

Golds was last year awarded "Training Salon of the Year" by Petroc College and this year four staff won training awards from the college. We will continue to put a high emphasis on training staff to an extremely high level. Customer serviced is all important and we try to ensure that all clients enjoy their visits to golds and walk out with a great hair style or beauty treatment. We are not the priciest salon in town nor are the cheapest. We aim to give a top class service at a reasonable price.

With further expansion in the pipeline, golds has high hopes that the next 10 years will see the business develop further by providing an even better service to our clients.

London Marathon

Rachel successfully ran the London Marathon on 25th April. Kerry (who could not run because of an injury) went to London with Rachel to give her moral support and to take photos.

Rachel finished the marathon in 4hrs 1 minute, she was in the first third (11437th out of 36000+) of runners to finish. She was the 2111th lady to finish which again was a great achievement.

Congratulations and 'well done' to Rachel who ran to raise money for Calvert Trust Exmoor (a North Devon charity which provides activity based holidays for people with disabilities). The final tally is not yet in but she has raised around £2000. Fantastic. Many thanks to everyone who sponsored her and Kerry.

Here are a few photos from the big day.

April 2010

Golds girls win awards

Tina, Kat and Hayley

Tash

Four golds staff have won awards in the Petroc College Hair Acadamy 2010 Competition.

Kat Dart won 1st Place NVQ Level 3 Year 2 with a Disney Themed hairstyle. Hayley Stapleton won 1st Place NVQ Level 2 Year 1 for Wash N Finish. Tash Green won 2nd Place NVQ Level 2 Year 2 for a colour n finish and Tina Dunmore won 3rd Place NVQ Level 2 Year 2 for an Evening n Bridal style. Congratulations to all four who are our up and coming stars of the future.

Golds girls win awards

On 17th April 2000 golds in Barnstaple opened its doors for the first time. Since then the business has grown into three salons, two hair and one beauty.

Golds are now the leading hair salons in North Devon and this has been achieved by concentrating on quality, service and price. We look forward to providing an even better service to our clients in the next ten years.

March 2010

Running for Gold

Kerry is having to withdraw from running in the London Marathon due to injury. During training she damaged her Achilles tendon and her physiotherapist has told her she cannot run. Kerry is disappointed but philosophical about this. Rachel will now run the marathon alone but with many supporters in the wings.

February 2010

Running for Gold

Two staff members from golds are running the London Marathon in April to raise money for Calvert Trust Exmoor.

Rachel and Kerry in training.

Calvert Trust Exmoor is a charity based at Wistlandpound Reservoir in North Devon, which provides activity based holidays for people with disabilities. People of all ages and with a variety of physical or mental disabilities visit the Centre and are encouraged and helped to climb, swim, sail, canoe, ride a horse, absail, and pa variety of other activities. They learn to do things they thought were impossible for them and to gain a new level of independence. Their families and carers also participate in all the activities.

This charity needs funds to keep on improving it’s facilities and to provide subsidised holidays for the less well-off.

Kerry Whitefield (Deputy MD) and Rachel Higgs (Receptionist and Cash Manager) at golds have visited the Calvert Trust Centre at Wistlandpound and have agreed to run the marathon to raise funds for the charity.

Kerry and Rachel are photographed here running in their ‘golds’ catsuits and we are still working on getting them to run the marathon in these !!

Rachel and Kerry

  If you would like to sponsor these brave girls we have sponsorship forms in each of the salons. They need your encouragement!

November 2009

Training Salon Award

David Dodd, College Principle, presenting the award to Kerry Whitefield and Louisa Lang)

Golds hair salon in Barnstaple has won a ‘Best Training Salon 2008/9 Award’ from Petroc College (formerly North Devon College). At an awards ceremony held in the Park Hotel Barnstaple on Friday 13th November Directors Louisa Lang and Kerry Whitefield were presented with a plaque, a certificate and a bouquet of flowers by David Dodd the College Principal. Golds has five modern apprentices who study on a day release basis at the College and also provides work experience to a number of students every year.

Golds Sponsors Tennis Tournament

In October 2009 golds sponsored the Aegon ProAm Ladies Tennis Tournament held in Barnstaple. Many of the top young lady players in Europe took part during the week long tournament which culminated in very exciting doubles and singles finals on the Sunday. Golds directors Louisa Kerry and Brian took part in the presentations to the winners.

This was the 2nd year of this important tournament and with next years prize money rising to $75,000 the tournament looks set to become a permanent feature on the tennis circuit.

Kerry and Louisa congratulate the Doubles winners Anna Smith (UK) and Johanna Larsson (Sweden)

FACEBOOK

Golds now has a ‘golds hair salon’ group on facebook. This features social photographs of the golds staff and also has chatty comments from members. If you are on facebook and would like to join the group just type in ‘golds’ in the ‘search’ box on the top right-hand corner of your home page and up will pop ‘golds hair salon’ It’s then very easy to join. Everyone welcome.

CONGRATULATIONS

Jasmine at golds in Ilfracombe has recently qualified as a hair stylist, having gained an NVQ 2 in hairdressing from Petroc College. Having successfully completed her two year apprenticeship Jasmine now becomes a Junior Stylist.

BEST FLORAL DISPLAY

Gammon Walk in Barnstaple where golds salon is located won this years 'Best Floral Display' in the 'Barnstaple in Bloom' competition. The Street was awarded a certificate and Vase which are on display in J&A Cameras window.