A new wine shop and neighbourhood bar is set to open within weeks in Gateshead's Bridges Quarter, in a major career switch for its founder.
Chartered accountant Charlotte Fenwick is swapping finances for fine wines to launch Victor Indigo November, the latest small business to open in the converted railway arches in Gateshead.
Victor Indigo November (VIN) is currently taking shape at 12 High Level Parade in Wellington Street, where Charlotte and her wife Lorrie are creating a drinks business with a difference, operating as a wine shop by day and neighbourhood bar by night. The pair have used personal funds and also secured support from Transmit Startups in Gateshead, the national delivery partner of the British Business Bank for Start Up Loans, to help get their venture off the ground.