Cramlington TA soldier signs up to latest mission

Posted by The Journal on Oct 28, 09 10:03 AM in News

A Territorial Army soldier who served in Iraq is literally shouting from the rooftops about her new business, which helps people to manage events and parties online.

Emma Williams, from Cramlington, recently set up new business Justbooked to help groups organise the payment of events such as stag weekends and Christmas parties.

Emma Williams, from Cramlington

Her website, Justbooked.co.uk, provides users with a trust account that allows them to pay for their part of the event without the organiser having to rush around collecting the cash.

The site also sends email updates to each member of the group to tell them who has yet to pay, with Mrs Williams hoping to integrate the service with Facebook and Twitter in the long-term.

She has spent the past week marketing the website and has been scaling some of the region's most iconic landmarks, including Newcastle's Castle Keep, to spread the word about the site to passers-by.

Mrs Williams had the idea for the business after becoming frustrated when organising a number of activity days as part of her youth training role in Cramlington as well as events in her personal life.

"The hardest part of organising any event is usually is usually collecting the money from people as you don't want to come across as being too hassley," she said.

"The new site allows people to adopt a monitoring role rather than having to organise everything themselves.

"Working in the army has given me a tremendous amount of self confidence, practical skills and business acumen and I believe the service is something that will appeal to a lot of people."

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