Romy Fraser, Founder, Neal’s Yard Remedies

Romy Fraser trained as a teacher in the 1960’s, travelled for a year or so before living in a Scottish commune. After having her first daughter, she worked for 6 years in a ‘free school’, believing that education was more to do with learning from experience, than remembering a series of facts.

By 1981 she had 2 daughters, ran literacy programmes in South London and had set up an alternative pharmacy in Covent Garden. Romy started Neal’s Yard Remedies with a loan of £18,000, guaranteed by a friend. It became an inspiration for those wanting to find out about natural medicine. The company was sold 25 years later with 35 shops and worldwide sales. Romy is now a grandmother and in the process of setting up an educational centre and energy business.