Dave started working on an ice-cream van in 2010 in Gloucestershire. He began doing the rounds working for a company that had 5 or 6 vans.

He worked 5 summers, street trading,  and really enjoyed serving the customers and seeing the children’s smiles. This is where the dream to have his own van started taking shape. After moving to the Forest of Dean, Dave realised that the forest needed its own ice-cream van.

Dave began looking for a van for Storkies. He found a van and soon realised that it was much harder than he first expected. He spent a lot of time and money learning how to maintain the van, getting into a much better condition than it was.

In the first year of trading, Dave started getting the van into shape, maintaing the machines, learning the trade.

^{In his 2nd, Dave focused on establishing the rounds, quickly becoming a familiar face and a firm family favourite.}

Then Covid struck! Storkies just about kept going by doing door to door delivery of his ice creams – it took twice as long, but for many, getting an ice cream from Storkie was the highlight of their week during lockdown.