It is her background and her love of music that drove O'Callaghan to set up a record shop, Factory - and has ultimately led to her appointment to the board of the Big Lottery Fund.
"The main thing for me is that I love music," says O'Callaghan. This, allied to a desire to make a difference, led her to set up the Factory Foundation 18 months ago, using her shop as a platform to help disadvantaged young people.
There's a very Mancunian story as to why Factory is so named. O'Callaghan wanted to pay tribute to the legendary Hacienda nightclub, which has been converted into luxury flats, by calling her shop Hacienda. But the property developers held the rights to the name, so local impresario and former Hacienda owner Tony Wilson suggested she call it Factory instead, after his former record label.
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