A service to have a good time the lifetime of Slimming World founder Margaret Miles-Bramwell has been held.
Mrs Miles-Bramwell died at her dwelling in Mallorca, Spain, final month, aged 76.
The cortege went previous the corporate’s head workplace in Somercotes, Derbyshire, near the place she began out in 1969, earlier than happening to Derby Cathedral.
She was made an OBE in 2009 for companies to the well being of the British public and her charitable work.
Friends have been requested to look at a standard black and white costume code with donations invited to the charity Blood Most cancers UK.
Slimming World began in a church corridor in Alfreton, Derbyshire, in 1969 – however expanded to turn out to be a community of greater than 3,500 consultants and about 700,000 members, based on the corporate.
She was named Enterprise Girl of the Yr on the Nationwide Enterprise Girls’s Awards in 2023, and had been honoured within the Prime 100 Influential Folks 2025.
Ruby Parsons, a senior stylist at Hair and Magnificence Slimming World in Somercotes, stated: “She was only a pleasure to be round.
“Do not get me unsuitable, it was nerve-wracking – however that wasn’t due to how she made you’re feeling however since you needed to please her.
“She was all the pieces to us, she wasn’t only a boss, she was a pal.”
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