Bob & Friends was never meant to be a shop filled with hundreds of things you could find anywhere else. When I moved from East London to the Sussex countryside, I started discovering just how many brilliant small businesses were making interesting products of their own. That became a big part of the idea behind Bob & Friends. Some things in the shop are made by us. The rest are carefully chosen from small UK businesses and independent makers whose products genuinely feel like
Bob is the Labradoodle behind Bob & Friends, our colourful little online shop run from Sussex. The business may technically require a human to do the emails, packing and boring admin, but it would be fairly difficult to call it Bob & Friends without Bob. Who is Bob? Bob is our very silly Labradoodle and the dog the whole shop is named after. When I moved from East London to the Sussex countryside, I became much more aware of the brilliant small businesses and independent make
