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Richard Ellis started Norfolk Country
Cottages in January 1992 with his wife, Lesley Ellis in a room at their
cottage in Reepham. Having trained as an accountant and worked in large
companies, Richard wanted to develop his own business based on a strong
set of personal values about quality of service, attention to detail,
valuing and respecting people as well as playing an active and responsible
role in the community and environment in which we are based.
The Company's success is based
on simple propositions -
- offering great service to both our homeowners and clients
- being locally based and thereby having better knowledge of our area
and our cottages
- only offering good quality properties
- ‘going the extra mile' to make our clients holiday a memorable one
and our through achieving these
aims our vision is simply to be the best in our business in Norfolk &
Suffolk.
In any business people and relationships
are key to building a successful, sustainable business, and particularly
so in a business such as ours. We are justifiably proud of our staff and
the expertise that they have developed in helping to build our business.
Richard and his team between them
are very active in local community affairs with the belief that “you can't
have a business without a community and you can't have a community without
business”. Richard himself is involved as a trustee or board member of
the Norwich Theatre Royal, The Forum Trust, The Prince's Trust in the
East of England, as well as being the Chair of Governors of the Earlham
Early Years Centre and a member of Norwich Cathedral's “Inspiration for
the Future” Campaign Executive. Richard has been involved in many other
local organisations such as Business in the Community and their Market
Town Regeneration initiatives as well as chairing the Broadland Business
Forum and the East of England Sustainable Development Round Table and
Arts & Business East. In December 2003 he was appointed Chairman of
the East of England Development Agency.
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