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Beginners’
Bricks the business
NEWS IN BRIEF
guide to
Charity winner
wildlife at bingo tea
habitats A CWMBRAN bingo hall
is to host a tea party to
LOCAL people are being raise funds for a cancer
urged to get involved in charity .
Mecca Bingo will offer
as a money magnet
conservation projects on
their own land. customers a hot drink and
To demonstrate what can cupcake for £1 on July 5,
be achieved, Gwent with all proceeds going to
Wildlife Trust officials are Marie Curie Cancer Care,
holding a beginner’s their chosen charity for
course on managing your 2010.
land for wildlife, using The charity needs
Wyeswood Common, near £200,000 a year to provide
Penallt, Monmouthshire, 10,000 hours of free home
which Argus readers nursing care.
helped to fund. For more information
Its long-term vision for about hosting a tea party,
LIFE...
the former dairy pasture call 08700 340 040
of 104 acres is taking
shape, with 7,500 new
trees and 62 Hebridean
sheep grazing the land.
She started out with a credit card, mobile ’phone Food needed
FOOD donations are need-
On July 6, staff will give
a tour of the land and give
and debts, but now has a property portfolio ed to help people in crisis
in Blaenau Gwent.
advice on land of all sizes, of £18 million. MIKE BUCKINGHAM bought Sarah Ebbw Vale’s Festival
from small gardens to
farmland or country Barrett a coffee, hoping some of the luck Church runs a foodbank,
which provides food
estates, showing how you
can attract wildlife, plant
might rub off parcels to people who have
lost their jobs, been made
trees and plants. homeless or are suffering
There will also be an from domestic problems.
indoor, illustrated talk The project needs
and a tour of Wyeswood LOTS of people have brains another one for sale. lets or whatever in a
schools, businesses,
Common. GWT says there but no money brains, and “I’m sure that put the idea of certain place or, perhaps in the work with no going out or
making money from property case of a law firm, you might boyfriends or any of the things churches and residents to
will be plenty of time to that’s where Sarah Barrett donate food or become vol-
ask questions. comes in. into my head. want the design to convey an young people like to do.
“We were living at Bassaleg air of seriousness and “I began to think, ‘this is a bit unteers.
The cost to non-members She’s the property market’s
when I went to St Joseph’s and respectability . weird. There must be a way For more information,
is £22, members £15. equivalent of a gun, for hire
was put in the top class, which “At Portsmouth I hadn’t taken out,’ and so I went to a talk call 01495 352223.
Booking is essential. who will come into your finan-
For details, visit gwen- CO-INVESTOR: Sarah Barrett’s partner, cial life all guns blazing and fir- was annoying. things too seriously but at about property .
twildlife.org. rugby player Hal Luscombe ing off solutions in all direc-
tions.
“I had been in the middle
class and was sailing through,
Cardiff I buckled down.
“After university I got a job
“Some time after that I was
sitting in a Cardiff café and a Festival plea
but when I found myself with a design firm at Bridgend, man came in I knew I had to ORGANISERS of the
Some people find money National Eisteddfod are
sticks to their fingers. among the top youngsters I until one day they told me to speak to. As we chatted I found
looking for people to rent
THE LOCAL WAY TO
really had to work. get the Hoover out, and that, as out he was a property multi-
In business, as in life, the their caravans to visitors.
“I was good at Latin and far as I was concerned, was millionare.
young millionairess says, the People travelling to
maths and all the other sub- that. “I did my first deal through a
smart thing is to identify what- Ebbw Vale for the festival,
jects but never really pulled out “I went to a design agency in chance meeting and made 16
ever it is you want and go for it
SELL YOUR CAR!
all the stops. Bristol, where I worked on, grand. which is held at The
with the least amount of trou- Works from July 31 to
“I did like sport, though, and among other projects, the inte- “At the time I was living in
ble and pain to yourself. Bath but got another job in August 7, are looking for
particularly netball, even rior of the Environment
Sarah, 39, works in the field of Cardiff, designing during the caravans to rent for the
although I am small, not much Agency, including a reception
what she has called creative day and making property deals
over five foot. desk made from recycled CDs week. Anyone who can
property solutions, and in a
NEwSpApERS “Local Media is used by 46% roundabout way owes her start
“I was in the Brownies and
the Guides and loved the
made to look like slate. in the evening, even nipping help is asked to call 02920
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from a private seller than any She is certainly on a charmed are going camping and
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She lives “modestly but in “Being with him, inci-
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Luscombe, who is co-investor “His fitness regime is
in the business. every minute of the day I .
Coleg Gwent
Wealth in itself is of little only have to pick up a bis-
interest to her. cuit and he says, ‘Do you
We are sitting in the foyer of really need that?’”
the Celtic Manor and I ask her But back to the life
whether she would be able to story .
walk into a Rolls-Royce show- Her haul of qualifica-
room (assuming one to exist in
Newport) and buy .
tions was respectable Do you have a spare room?
enough to win her a place
(including “Oh, yes. at what is now Would you be interested in
“But actually I drive around Portsmouth University,
photo) in an £800 Nissan. I like com- having a foreign language
but in those days was a
fort but I’m not particularly polytechnic, where she student to stay for a short
Reach over 187,000*
potential customers.
OR FREE materialistic.”
It is a matter of observable
fact that people who bathe in
studied design.
When her father died
‘NOT ABOUT THE MONEY’: Sarah Barrett has a property portfolio worth £18m and says she likes to buy
time?
IF YOUR CAR IS
she came back to Gwent –
the scented waters of wealth at one time she drove in Newport. Right, in front of one of the houses she owns in Caerleon CB_1895 We are looking for Host Fami-
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are usually the nicest, and Argus circulation vans – do it for myself.” lies in the Crosskeys, Newport
least amount of work?’” when it comes to property . succeed and in her business
UNDER £300
those with a political axe to before returning to full-time “I was living the life of a outside in the lunch break to Sarah Barrett’s world is a
grind the most horrendous. higher education at Cardiff design manager who got make business calls. In general, she says, she likes “I look at the range of options philosophy of the greatest & Pontypool areas.
complex one which juggles
Sarah is small, with a mane of University, where she read involved in the interior design “By the late 90s I was earning finances, examines the law of to keep business in the open to them and come up with reward for the smallest outlay
black hair and bright dark eyes interior architecture. of luxury yachts, but the salary £35,000 in the design industry, this and other countries, and Newport area. a plan designed to suit them of effort she is rather like a To find out more or attend an
For further details telephone that light up at a joke.
Her dad was Mike Barrett,
“Which as the name suggests
is all about designing the
wasn’t keeping up with the
lifestyle.
which would represent a lot
more today, but I always felt
by a fine examination of the “I tell people to invest here.
We buy a lot in Newport.”
specifically .
“It’s not to do with property
young lioness lounging under Open Evening, please call
01633 777101 or visit:
market and needs of the client an African tree, apparently
who worked at the Argus as a
compositor during the day and
built houses in the evenings
insides of a building to a
client’s requirements, starting
with the shell.
“By this time I was a manager
doing assessment interviews
and telling people off from
that I was meant to be rich.
“I never saw myself settling
down with a husband and three
arranges an outcome which is
satisfactory to both them and
Sarah Barrett’s property
portfolio is currently worth
£18.3 million and she has made
so much as people. I am not a
property investor. I invest in
people with property problems
resting until a tasty antelope
bounds along.
01633 466022
her business.
and at weekends. “Some parts of a building, for time to time and boring stuff kids. “Life to me is not really about 132 successful property deals and then find them a win-win “Strange you should say that. or email
I am a Leo,” she beams.
souWhZalesargus.co.uk/adverWLse sarah.howells@coleggwent.ac.uk
“After work he’d be out there instance, you might want a lot like that. “I also realised there was money but time. ‘How much of across the country . situation.” I put it to her that in
with a wheelbarrow building of people to walk through. “The creative fun had gone going to be no knight in shin- my own time can I buy for the “You get people who excel in going back to school, in her ● www.sarah-barrett.-
one house for us to live in and “Or you might want the toi- out of it and it was work,work, ing armour and I would have to their field but are hopeless doing the minimum needed to co.uk
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