Side By Side
Women Supporting Women, At Our Utter Best.
Three roads between members, all of them free with your place here. They are the reason a sidebloom survives a bad month, and they only work because the women are real and local.
The Lending Table
A dressmaker’s mannequin for the fuller figure, standing in a hallway, never once used. A treatment room empty on a Tuesday. A kiln fired twice a year. A salon chair nobody is in before eleven. A ring light in a cupboard. Whatever you have sitting idle, another woman near you needs this week.
- A Room, A Tool, An AfternoonSpace is one kind of it. So is the equipment you bought once, the table that seats twelve, and the hours you are not working anyway.
- Set By The Woman Who Has ItHers to lend, on her terms, in her words. Some of it is lent for something in return, and some of it is simply lent.
- Nothing Is Charged, Nothing Is TakenSideBlooms takes no part of what passes between two women here. Whatever the two of you agree is entirely between the two of you.
The Cover Network
Your shift runs late. The children need you. You are unwell on the morning of a wedding. Hand the booking sideways to a woman who does what you do, on terms the two of you agreed long before either of you needed them.
- Same Discipline, Same AreaCover is offered by women doing your work near you, so a client is looked after properly rather than let down politely.
- Terms Agreed In AdvanceWhat she keeps, what comes back to you, and who the client belongs to afterwards. Written before it is needed, so nobody negotiates in a crisis.
- The Client Stays YoursCover is cover. Your client comes back to you, and your reputation grows for having handled it beautifully.
Collaboration Clusters
A wedding needs five of you — hair, flowers, cake, photographs, and the car. A christening needs three. A milestone birthday needs four. Assemble for the day, do it beautifully, and go home as separate businesses.
- Grouped By The Day, Never By A ListWeddings · Wellbeing · Celebration And Catering · Children's Parties · WardrobeClusters sit around occasions, so a client finds a whole day rather than five separate searches.
- One Job At A TimeA cluster is a job, never a partnership. Nobody signs anything, nobody owns anybody, and everybody invoices for her own work.
- Ready For Something LargerWhen a group of you wants to build a permanent business together, that is a different road and we will point you to it.
Why It Is Free
A commission on a room booking would earn a little and cost the whole point. These roads keep women here through the quiet months, and a woman who was covered when she was ill in March is still listed in November. That is worth more than a percentage.
Alone, A Sidebloom Is Fragile.
Together, It Is Not.