A mother who was left horrified by the amount of clothing waste created by her two growing daughters has become a runaway success with her rental service for youngsters.   
Confronted by piles of stashed away hand-me-downs when her second daughter was born, Charlotte Morley, 41, knew she could not go on hoarding or discarding worn clothes every three months when her girls grew.
Charlotte, who lives in Twickenham, with her managing director husband Nick Morley, 47, and their children Rosa, five, and Edith, three, spent every night of her maternity leave from her then job as head of digital product for an online marketplace, tinkering with ideas.
With no business experience, she created the children's clothing rental service, The Little Loop, in April 2020 and it is now thriving after she won ?140,000 investment during an appearance on Dragon's Den in January 2022. 
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After coming up with her idea, Charlotte passed the auditions for the BBC's Dragon's Den. She would use her spare room to store boxes of clothes





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The mother and entrepreneur explained costumers can pick as many items as they want and keep them for as long as they want 






Getting the Dragons' validation was a huge milestone for Charlotte, who had sacrificed and worked hard to make her business a reality.  Pictured: Boxes of outgrown clothes

She said: 'It took so much work to walk in there.

It was a bit daunting, but surreal.
'I genuinely didn't expect the result I got. I didn't think it would go as well as it did. I cried because I was so overwhelmed.
'When the Dragons gave me the feedback that they did, it was massive validation for all the hard work and sacrifice I had made.
'They thought the idea was brilliant.

It was an amazing experience.





The idea for Little Loop first started while sifting through piles of clothes which had been donated to her by a friend, who herself had received them from another friend.

Pictured: Charlotte's first orders

'Then, the day after, I was back at the warehouse packing orders, laundering things and folding clothes.'
With motherhood making her more environmentally conscious, hearing that 350,000 tonnes of wearable clothing worth around ?140 million ends up in a landfill in the UK every year, according to the Clothes Aid charity, sickened Charlotte.
She said: 'When I had my second child and the hand-me-downs were getting taken out of the cupboard, there were just so many, but even then, I had to buy new clothes, beacuse they didn't fit and they didn't suit my second daughter.
'When you have children suddenly you care about something other than yourself, and you have to care about the planet, as it's our future, so I wanted to do something about all this waste.'





With motherhood making her more environmentally conscious, hearing that 350,000 tonnes of wearable clothing worth around ?140 million ends up in a landfill in the UK every year, according to the Clothes Aid charity, sickened Charlotte.

Pictured: boxes of unworn clothes

Then, in the middle of 2019, shortly after Edith was born, she recalls sitting on the floor, sifting through piles of clothes which had been donated to her by a friend, who herself had received them from another friend.
She was amazed that these clothes had been worn by seven children by the time they reached Edith, instead of being wasted in a wardrobe and left to wither away.
She said: 'This started giving me ideas and I wondered if there was a better way altogether of clothing our kids.'
And, after hours of thinking and research, her eureka moment struck.





A second motivation for Charlotte's company was to make parent's lives easier by taking having a surplus of clothes out of the equation

She said: 'I used to sit at night breast feeding my daughters and I couldn't stop thinking about it.
'The more I thought about it, rental became an obvious choice.

You're not owning clothes, but you're accessing them.
'Being a parent is such a stressful job and making life a bit easier for all parents was something that really drove me.'
After six months of market research, as well as hours toiling away in mums' groups and chatrooms, The Little Loop was born on April 16, 2020, just weeks into the UK's first national Covid lockdown.





She launched with around 400 items of clothing - which included t-shirts, dresses, jeans, dungarees and 'nice everyday clothes' for tots aged between two and three - they also had 40 excited customers.

Rosa and Edith in rented clothes

Passionate about her project and the environment, Charlotte convinced a number of big sustainable and ethical clothing brands to join her venture.
She said: 'It is a shared wardrobe.
What that means practically for the customers is that they pay for a membership, receive 100 credits to spend on clothes, then can swap those clothes through The Little Loop as many times as they like, for no extra cost.
'We enable parents to shop sustainably without compromising on convenience or cost.'
Launching with around 400 items of clothing - which included t-shirts, dresses, jeans, dungarees and 'nice everyday clothes' for tots aged between two and three - they also had 40 excited customers.





Investing over ?100k of her own savings into the business, she also received an Innovate UK grant of around ?160k after deciding she could no longer hoard boxes of outgrown clothes

Still working solo and out of her home, Charlotte had a room which was filled to the ceiling with boxes of clothing.
Then, investing over ?100,000 of her own savings into the business, she also received an Innovate UK grant of around ?160,000.
She said: 'We funded everything with our personal savings at the start.
'It was quite scary to use our own money, our own savings.





Charlotte still works 70 hours a week, diligently folding, cleaning, ironing, and packing clothes each day. Rose and Edith modelling their rented wardrobe

'But we did everything slowly and grew with the business.
'Whenever we've put more money in, it felt like the right thing to do.'
Moving into a 1,000 square foot warehouse in Battersea, south west London, in November 2021, Charlotte still works 70 hours a week, diligently folding, cleaning, ironing, and packing clothes each day.
And, incredibly, none of the now 7,000 items of clothing they have acquired have been thrown out.
Nearly two years since taking the brave leap into the unknown, Charlotte says she feels proud of her achievement, after being inundated with hundreds of compliments from ecstatic parents.
Charlotte, who now has hundreds of customers, said: 'We have had so many parents who tell us we've made their lives easier and better.

That makes me the happiest.





Nearly two years since taking the brave leap into the unknown, Charlotte says she feels proud of her achievement, after being inundated with hundreds of compliments from ecstatic parents

'Parenting is so hard, so making life easier is just amazing.'
And as a mother of two beautiful daughters, Charlotte - who uses a Starling business bank account to make managing business finances and particularly business outgoings easy and efficient - hopes she can inspire them to believe they can achieve anything they want in life as they grow up.
She said: 'I'm a self made businessperson and that makes me very proud.

I have worked so hard all my life, and everything I've done has allowed me to invest my money and time into this.
'I'm now seeing the rewards for my hard work.
'I want to be a brilliant mother to my daughters, so that they believe they can achieve anything, too.'   




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