Nursem launches crowdfunding campaign to boost growth

Therapeutic skincare brand Nursem has launched a new crowdfunding campaign to support its expansion plans. 

The business hopes to raise £600,000 via crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to help accelerate growth, enter new categories within the UK skincare market, and expand internationally.

Jonny Philp, Co-founder of Nursem, said: "It has been our ambition for a long time now to provide an opportunity for our amazing community to become a shareholder in Nursem.

"This is an exciting next step in becoming a truly people powered brand on a mission to give back."

Launched in 2019, Nursem creates therapeutic skincare products in partnership with nurses, led by Co-founder and NHS Nurse, Antonia Philp and her husband Jonny.

Born on a nursing ward, Philp often came home with sore, cracked and bleeding hands from her constant hand washing at work. Knowing this problem affects nearly all nurses, she started developing a hand cream formula that was effective, natural and something nurses could use repeatedly throughout a busy shift.

After seven years, working with a group of British nurses, laboratories and Newcastle Science City, Nursem's hero Caring Hand Cream was born.

Available at Boots, SpaceNK, Selfridges and Harrods, the brand has generated £7 million in revenue since its launch and delivered over 600,000 'Nursem Promises' providing free hand care to NHS nurses.

For every product sold, Nursem gives a month’s worth of free hand cream to an NHS nurse or midwife. Its mission is to deliver free handcare to all NHS nurses.