Funda Zeytinoğlu is an entrepreneur, retailer and community builder whose work has always centred on people.
After moving to the UK in 2000, Funda studied English before completing a degree in Business Management and pursuing a childhood ambition to build her own business. Over the following two decades, she established herself in independent fashion retail, operating boutiques in Reading, Guildford, Notting Hill, Covent Garden and Ealing Broadway. Her long-standing Reading business remains at the heart of that journey.
Yet for Funda, retail has never simply been about selling clothes. Years of listening to customers taught her the importance of personal connection, trust and creating environments where people feel welcome, understood and valued. That experience gradually inspired a new direction.
Today, Funda is bringing her entrepreneurial experience into wellness, events and community building. Her vision is to create warm, engaging experiences that combine learning, personal development, wellbeing, entertainment and genuine human connection.
She wants people not simply to attend an event, but to discover something new, meet inspiring people and leave feeling better than when they arrived.
At the centre of everything is a simple philosophy:
Connect. Develop. Grow Together.
For Funda, the event itself is only the beginning. The bigger ambition is to create a community where people can build friendships, exchange ideas, support one another and grow together.