17/09/2026
Well… this happened today. 🏆🥹
The Pilates Collective is officially an award-winning business.
Eight months.
That’s all it’s been since we opened the doors in January, and today we won at the Lyme Regis Business Awards.
I’m ridiculously proud of what we’ve created in such a short space of time.
Launching The Pilates Collective was a massive step into the unknown. I’d built a business before, but somehow this felt completely different. A new studio, a new team, a new way of working and, if I’m honest, a lot of figuring things out as I went along.
There have been ups, there have been downs, ridiculously long days, stressful moments and plenty of times I’ve wondered what on earth I’d taken on.
I’ve worked incredibly hard to make this studio work, but what it has become is absolutely not down to me alone.
I have the most brilliant team of instructors who care just as much about the experience our clients have as I do. And then there are our clients — the people who took a chance on a brand-new studio, walked through our doors, came back, told their friends and helped us build the community we have today.
Without all of you, there simply wouldn’t be a Pilates Collective.
So this award feels like recognition of everything we’ve built together over the last eight months.
I’m incredibly grateful, incredibly proud… and maybe still a little bit shocked. 🥹
Eight months old and already award-winning. 🏆
I think we can be pretty bloody proud of that. ❤️