CONTRACTOR PROFILE // JD MOUNSEY COMPANY: JD Mounsey BASED: Settle FOUNDED: 1994 MAJOR PROJECTS: Giggleswick School, Lancaster University STAFF NUMBERS: 11
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Jonathan Mounsey
Based in the North Yorkshire town of Settle, JD Mounsey has developed into a thriving business based around offering a wide range of services to customers in its local area By Nick Martindale
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estled in between the Yorkshire Dales and the Forest of Bowland in North Yorkshire lies the market town of Settle. It’s where Jonathan Mounsey, founder of JD Mounsey, grew up, and from where his thriving business now operates. It’s also where the firm derives the majority of its work. “When I started in 1994 I would work within a 10-mile radius and now it’s within an hour’s drive,” says Jonathan. “We stay this side of Leeds and we have touched on bits of Manchester, but that’s not our core area. Within an hour we can hit Lancaster, Clitheroe and the Bowland area and right out into the Yorkshire Dales.” Jonathan first started working for himself at the age of just 20, having completed a City & Guilds electrical apprenticeship. “At that point I was a qualified electrician, but I also did TV aerial fitting and intruder alarms,” he says. “So I had a really broad scope when I set up. It grew from there; I advertised, picked up more customers and started to employ staff.” The initial focus for the business was domestic installations, but before long it started expanding into local offices, schools and commercial jobs. “We have a strong customer base in
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educational establishments, so we do schools, colleges and universities,” he says. Recent projects include working on the sports hall and rewiring the chapel at Giggleswick School, as well as Skipton Girls’ High School and local businesses, including pubs, offices and shops. Around half the company’s work is through main contractors, he says, with a similar percentage direct with end-clients. But the business still retains its original focus too, taking on work in local households, all of which can help to grow the firm’s reputation as the main player in the area. “Sometimes we do a small domestic job and then we end up rewiring their house and then working at their business,” he says. “We can also be working at a college and end up doing domestic jobs for the staff through that. So there’s a really wide scope of work.”
‘Sometimes we do a small domestic job and then we end up rewiring their house and then working at their business’
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