Our tiny jewellery store on Exchange Street was affectionately called the “cupboard under the stairs”.

But now we are moving on to a new, and significantly larger, store on the corner of Dove Street and Pottergate.

Today (Wednesday, August 17) we will officially move to the fully refurbished store, which had previously been Rainbow Wholefoods downstairs and the Treehouse restaurant above.

We have replaced nearly everything apart from the roof and the move represents a long-term investment of nearly £250,000 for us.

You are such brilliant, loyal customers and we decided the time was right to invest in our future and move on from our humble beginnings.

We are very proud of what Sonkai has achieved, it has been a lot of hard work but we are thrilled to offer you a beautiful new shop in the Norwich Lanes – with a little bit more elbow room!

To celebrate the move, we are raising money for the Big C with a raffle (where someone will win a diamond!) and are giving away gift vouchers worth £2,000 in total to the first 200 people who visit today.

The new store includes a dedicated “shop-in-shop” Pandora section, as well as our own jewellery and our other ranges, including the new Sophie Harley pieces.

In the future, we will also offer jewellery classes, so you can learn about goldsmith techniques and work on your own bespoke designs in Craig's workshop.

So come along and see us if you are in Norwich today, if not see you soon at our new store.