Our Story
Situated on Carshalton’s High Street, Calladoodles’ home is a Grade 2 listed building close to the well known Carshalton Ponds and the Honeywood Museum. Now 13 years old Calladoodles continues to go from strength to strength.
The shop is owned by Liz Killick and run by Clare, her daughter, and all girl team Victoria and Jo with help from granddaughter Chloe!
Dave White was the inspiration behind Calladoodles, he was Clare’s husband who has sadly since passed away.
He always said Clare should run a shop as she loves people, and chatting, and had spent much time perusing the gift shops of the Laines in Brighton, where she had lived for many years whilst working with the homeless. Both of Clare’s grandmothers had dreamt of running a shop, that dream ran in the family!!
So the hunt for a premises began and one day Clare stumbled across Carshalton Village, she instantly fell in love with it.
Clare met Peter, the current shop’s landlord, who is a kind, community minded resident. Clare says ‘Without Peter we would not have got through the first years.’ However, with the support of Peter and Clare’s mum Liz, or ‘Mama Doodles’ as the team call her, Calladoodles soon became a firm favourite in Carshalton amongst the community that Clare and her team love so much.