Autumn Budget 2025: Reaction from Rebel & Rose Chapel Allerton

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Rachael Brereton from Rebel & Rose in Chapel Allerton reflects on the Autumn Budget 2025 and how this year has fared as an independent trader in Leeds.

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00:00Hello, I'm Rachel Brayton and I'm from Rebel and Rose in Chapel Allerton.

00:04It's been a great year.

00:05It's been a challenging, quite difficult year, but overall, absolutely brilliant.

00:10The shop has morphed yet again, the business as a whole.

00:14I keep it moving all the time.

00:17I have been in the really lucky position where I've teamed up with charities

00:22and it's raised an awful lot of money for the charity.

00:26It's a really, really fun event.

00:28Often 30 ladies on an evening, sip and shop.

00:32You can imagine the hilarity.

00:33Following the autumn budget announcement, quite a bit of confusion and I guess disappointment, really.

00:39Confusion being that the main headline is it was leaked early.

00:43Disappointment, nothing for small businesses.

00:46I see no benefit to me and my fellow independent retailers.

00:50We are the backbone of Great Britain.

00:52We employ, we pay tax, we pay national insurance.

00:56We need to be helped.

00:57We need to be looked at.

00:59Growth is their main strap line.

01:01I see no growth possibilities at all at the moment.

01:06Retailers' independence are wanting to be optimistic, but when we look around, you can't help but notice

01:12that there have been business closures.

01:15That, I have sleepless nights, you know, it's, I don't take anything for granted.

01:19But I'm ending 2025 on a real high.

01:23I've actually received two awards.

01:26The first one is the Best Independent Fashion and Gift Retailer of 2025 in Leeds.

01:35And the second one is the Excellence Award for Customer Service.

01:40Absolutely thrilled.

01:42Really blown away.

01:43So thank you very much.

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