Meet our merchants of the week: Lisa McWilliams and Phil James of HempWell Restricted in Petergate
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This week’s highlight falls on HempWell Restricted, of Excessive Petergate, York, run by husband and spouse crew Lisa McWilliams and Phil James. They promote CBD – cannabidiol – merchandise that are stated to assist with a spread of issues together with nervousness, stress, insomnia, persistent ache and arthritis.
Right here is their story…
How lengthy has the enterprise been going?
We began our CBD enterprise in 2017.
A few of HempWell’s CBD merchandise
What does it promote?
We make and promote our personal model of well being and wellness merchandise utilizing CBD extracted from hemp crops that we grew ourselves. This contains meals dietary supplements corresponding to CBD oil, capsules and tablets in addition to topical lotions for muscle mass and joints. We additionally promote a spread of CBD-infused items corresponding to chocolate truffles, candles, tub bombs, gummies and a skincare line.
Why is that this enterprise is particular?
Our enterprise stands out from the others as a result of we grew our personal hemp and we manufacture right here in York. We selected which EU licensed seeds to plant and which natural farming strategies to make use of and our CEO spent months on the farm rising the hemp. As soon as the CBD is extracted from the hemp, we manufacture at our labs in York Science Park and may proudly say that our pure natural dietary supplements and wellness merchandise are Yorkshire-made. We work with different artisans in Yorkshire together with a grasp chocolatier to make our CBD chocolate truffles and a candlemaker to make our hand-poured CBD candles in order that we will be really pleased with supporting different small companies within the space.
Lisa McWilliams of HempWell
How has it tailored through the Covid-19 disaster?
To adapt to the Covid-19 disaster we opened our first retail retailer on Excessive Petergate close to the Minster, we have been beforehand solely promoting on-line at hempwell.co.uk. CBD is understood for its advantages to assist handle nervousness and through the top of the pandemic we really had folks exhibiting up at our places of work making an attempt to purchase CBD! At that time we knew we needed to open a retail area for folks in York to return and get some data, pattern the merchandise at no cost and purchase what they want.
Any awards?
Sure! We now have simply heard that we have now received ‘Finest Hemp & CBD Merchandise Retailer – UK’ within the World Well being and Pharma Industrial Hashish Awards! The outcomes have not been formally introduced but however we’re thrilled with this information because it actually reveals all the laborious work we put into making the best high quality CBD merchandise within the UK. Our Cooling Muscle and Joint Cream was additionally awarded one of many ‘High 15 CBD Merchandise for Ache – 2021’ by Origym.
What’s your favorite story about this enterprise?
We’re at all times busy working laborious behind the scenes so it is at all times unbelievable when a evaluate pops up on the web site saying that our merchandise have helped to enhance anyone’s high quality of life. We get plenty of folks say that it has helped them with their arthritis ache or it has helped their sleep or nervousness, however final week we had a evaluate from a woman who stated it had helped her along with her post-cancer ache and everybody within the workplace was in tears! It makes all of it worthwhile.
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