For most people, moving house means worrying about fitting years’ worth of belongings into boxes, trying not to smash entire crockery sets and hiring the right ‘man with a van’.
Shirley’s Removals, however, deal with customers who have an additional layer of concerns.
Founded in 1988, the business partnered with the Terrence Higgins Trust to battle the stigma against people with HIV by providing a moving service for them when no-one else would.
Now run by Magali Boato and her partner Wendy Robertson, the company is still putting inclusivity at the forefront of everything they do, and with glowing Google reviews and a fiercely loyal customer base, they’re going from strength to strength.
Here, they share how they run a successful business with compassion at the forefront of everything that they do…