“I’ve loved baking for as long as I can remember, having been taught to make rock cakes and Victoria sponge by my mum, Ann, when I was too little to even go near an oven. It makes me so happy that I’m now able to make a living from it,” explains Charlotte Cooper, who has never regretted her change of career in 2017.
“As a teenager, I didn’t know what I wanted to do, just that I didn’t want to work in an office. I only started working at an insurance company to save up some money to travel. But having made my way up through the ranks, I found I was still there in my late 20s.
