Flags Galore!
Our journey started with Mysterious Flotsam Ltd [06972711]; a small sewing start-up trading as Flags Galore! at Unit 17 High Street Arcade 10/11 High Street Swansea SA1 1LE.
No rent. No accounts. No worries.
Though trading, we never bothered to file actual accounts and were officially ‘dormant’ from incorporation in 2009 right through to being struck off in 2016. Before that happened though we had to leave the High Street Arcade for non-payment of rent!
Substantial Grants
Unbelievably, we managed to convince the Welsh Government and Wales Council for Voluntary Action to give us substantial grants to set up the World’s only Social Enterprise Flagmaker and in a lovely residential property at 75 Walter Road Swansea SA1 4QA just a few hundred metres from another pre-existing flag business. Red Dragon Manufacturing Ltd [08844591] was incorporated here in January 2014.
Red Dragon Flagmakers® Trademark
In May of 2014 we then registered the trademark Red Dragon Flagmakers® which, though intangible, soon became Red Dragon Manufacturing Ltd’s greatest asset.
Rules and rent don’t apply to us
Obviously we took the view that we didn’t need to apply for planning permission for the change of use from residential to manufacturing or for the flagpole that we rather grandly erected outside, but by the time this started catching up with us we were already many months behind with rent, so it seemed prudent to move again, which we did in August 2018; this time to Unit 2 Players Industrial Estate Clydach SA6 5BQ.