AN OXFORDSHIRE businessman is launching a chair which promises to end schoolchildren’s backache — and transform classrooms.
Former motorsport engineer Nick Topliss, of Marsh Gibbon, who now runs furniture design company Isis Concepts in Tetsworth, was inspired to act when his daughter changed schools, and he noticed that her handwriting suddenly improved.
He said: “She’s a small girl — among the bottom three per cent for size – and they had to find her the right chair. After a couple of months she said her writing was improving because she could now reach the floor for the first time.”
The Newton chair will arrive in UK schools this summer, starting with a Building Schools for the Future project in Kent. Mr Topliss believes there will be a huge demand, and says education spending already in the pipeline means the company’s 50-strong workforce could grow as the chair — and Isis’s linked furniture range — catch on. The company, which was set up nine years ago, grows in size during the summer, when temporary staff are taken on for the back-to-school rush.
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