AN unemployed mum has taken the reins of a new business, providing a mobile crèche for the parents of horse lovers, thanks to the backing of Coventry and Warwickshire Reinvestment Trust.

Angela Amos, owner of Pegasus Playbus, is the first in the UK to stop off at horse show events, enabling amateur and professional riders to leave their children with qualified child minders.

 CWRT decided the business plan made so much horse sense that they helped Angela gallop away with a small business loan of £8,000 to enable her to buy a 28-year-old double-decker bus that has been converted into a mobile play service.

The play bus will also target supermarkets and Angela from Wooton Wawen near Stratford-Upon- Avon is in no doubt about what the four figure cash boost from CWRT has meant to her company.

Angela says: “Without the funding I wouldn’t have had enough working capital. CWRT do seem very sympathetic towards the needs of business and the loan was agreed the same day.”

Thanks to CWRT’s cash boost, the one-time nanny who holds an HGV license is travelling the trade lanes in her yellow bus, decorated and kitted out with imaginative play equipment, to shows like Horse of the Year, targeted at encouraging children between two and eight-years-old to play.