“The location is important for my work, especially for the Latino community.”

“In this room, we have the following services: beauty therapy, hairdressing and tattoo art. That [tattoo art] is new. Yes, we do treatments for the hair [cut, color, brushed, permanent]; in beauty, laser for body hair, laser to remove tattoos, facials, waxing.”

“we have lunch from the ones we bring, or sometimes at local restaurants that Latinos go, obviously.”

“Yes, I know my neighbours and feel part of the community, definitely. In my case, I get along well with everyone, and we help each other […] I do leave my keys with other people.”

“Especially because I am a Latina and I found a way to be more united with my people [...] 80% of our clients are Latinos.”

“This space was rented by a person from the British Network and we made a kind of sharing lease to rent the premises. This is a sharing lease in which between me and the person below we pay half of bills, rent, and business rates. […] I bought the sharing lease, so I do not charge a monthly rent. Sharing lease has no limit, an update is made every ten years.”

“I use Facebook, LinkedIn, and also Latin News. Now we are in Groupon [too].”

“Network Rail has proposed to have only one business per arch, which means renting out chairs or spaces would be impossible in the future.”

“They have advanced it [the area] in recent years, it [the area] has improved a lot. The bad thing is that the rent went up.”