Background
Carole (née Carole Gray Whitt) was born in Nottingham.
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Career
Carole started converting the family"s farms in Staffordshire and Gloucestershire the village of to organic, responsible farming based on traditional methods. This led to the opening of Organic farmshop and café in 2002. produces seasonal farm produce. Today there are four stand-alone farmshops/cafés, in Gloucestershire, Pimlico Road, Notting Hill and, the most recent addition, a café with farmshop in Esher, Surrey.
There is also a concession in Selfridges Food Hall and a virtual farmshop.
, launched in 2006, sells clothes using natural fibres. The brand also sells natural body, bath, baby and home products.
These products have been developed as body treatments for the Hay Barn holistic retreat, Herb House spa at Limewood and the spa at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc. The company employs around 10,000 people and has eight plants in Staffordshire, two in Wrexham, one in Derbyshire, a factory in Savannah, Georgia, one in Brazil, three in India, one in China and one in Germany.
Foreign over 35 years Carole and have supported the NSPCC culminating in the launch of the Full Stop campaign in 1999.
Full Stop was launched with the intention of involving all of society in the bid to end child cruelty. Lady was involved with launching the Academy in 2011, which is a state-of-the-art facility for engineering and business education. In India, the Lady Charitable Trust formed in 2000, has built schools and communities around factories in Delhi, Ballabgarh, Ladiapur and Ambi.
Similar projects have been developed around other factories.
In South America, the Fundacao Lady opened in 2009, and in the United States of America, The Lady Center for Early Childhood Development in Savannah, Georgia was opened in 2007. Lady works closely with NSPCC, the Soil Association and Slow Food Movement.
In June 2012 she was honoured with an International Leadership Award at the Global Green Millennium Awards.
