HOW TESORAMORE STARTED-

Tesoramore is a Portsmouth UK based family run business which consists of Sabrina Simmons & Steven Parrott.
Our business started as a 'labour of love project' for myself (Sabrina) and Steve due to a love of unique memorial jewellery, creativity and a passion for creating meaningful and sentimental pieces.

Steve had a background in engineering and design, and I had a background in business management and 10 years experience as a grief therapist, and most importantly, we both wanted to improve our lives, and create a meaningful legacy.

Steve would design jewellery pieces as a hobby, and this would be done alongside his job as a bike mechanic.

One day a family friend asked Steve to make them a memorial ring, so together we designed a bespoke ring, custom made it (in our bedroom with very basic tools), but it received such a hugely positive response, that we decided to turn this into a business.

It wasn't long before we were receiving lots of requests, as our ability to create bespoke designs as well my experience in grief therapy, meant we were able to offer a truly empathetic, supportive and guided service.

We decided to call our business Tesoramore which in Italian translates to 'Treasured Love', as we feel that loved ones and their memories are so dearly loved and treasured.
We began to see the massive potential for our business, but found that we weren't quite able to dedicate our time, energy and focus to it fully due to our other full-time jobs, and knew that if we were to ever take this from a hobby to a real business we would need to go 'all in'.
So early in 2023 we took a huge leap of faith and left our jobs to focus on our dream to to become a leading memorial jewellery and keepsake brand.
However, we soon realised that we were working a 'flooded' industry, and if we were to make the huge sentimental impact in our field that we dreamt of, we would need to create a USP that stood us apart from our competitors.
I sadly developed a blood clot in October 2023, and it was during this time being laid up in bed that I decided to revisit my memories in grief therapy and palliative care and draw from those learnings.
As I got to witness first hand that at the end of someone's life, the thing that they held most dear were their memories, and those memories were the main thing that they valued from their time here, and when it was sadly time for that beautiful life to pass on, those memories then became the main source of comfort and peace to the ones that had been left behind.
I also noticed that individuals and families that were struggling with grief, always found a semblance of relief and solace once they actually had a tangible part of their loved one with them, and that digital legacy platforms were becoming increasingly popular, and it was those findings and experiences as well as Steve's extensive craftmanship skills that led us to pioneer the concept of combining ashes and memories into jewellery and keepsakes, so that grieving loved ones could not only have a tangible reminder of a loved one that they could touch and carry with them, but that they could use that tangible keepsake to revisit special memories when they were missing their loved one.
We proudly launched the worlds first digital memorial design in November 2023.
Our digital memorial designs preserve ashes and memories to create permanence in connection that will never be lost.
And although near field communication already existed, we were the first to use the technology in this way, making us pioneers in our field, and the original founders of digital memorial jewellery and keepsakes.