Business Mentors in Dorset

Dorset has many beautiful towns and villages including Corfe Castle, Lyme Regis, Weymouth with Bournemouth being the largest town. It is famous for its Jurassic coastline, Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove.

As well as a popular tourist area, there are over 250 multinational businesses and world-renowned organisations base a major part of their UK operations here including Sunseeker a well renowned yacht company. Created by entrepreneur and philanthropist Robert Braithwaite (deceased). Robert left school at 15 with no qualifications and moved to the Hampshire coast where his parents became proprietors of a village store near Christchurch. Famously, Robert is quoted as saying “When I was young I was told it was impossible to have a career in boats. I guess I proved them wrong.”

Richard Drax MP is the largest individual landowner in Dorset, owning approximately 13,870 acres, equivalent to 2% of the land in Dorset.