Archive for the ‘Women's Enterprise’ Category

Business Awards June

June 29th, 2010 by jacqui

Northwest Region Awards
EN Magazine North West Entrepreneur Awards 2010 – EN Magazine’s North West Entrepreneur of the Year Awards scheme, now in its ninth year, exists to honour the achievements of the region’s most tenacious and successful entrepreneurs – and to provide encouragement and a standard against which they can measure themselves to those who Read more…

Win a life changing, year long trip and discover the earth.

May 27th, 2010 by jacqui

Northwest Ambassador Chris Arnold has launched a worldwide competition which will see participants compete and develop skills in enterprise and social responsibility. The winners will receive a once in a lifetime prize to travel the world for a year meeting entrepreneurs and world leaders.
 ‘Your Big Year’ is an official ‘Global Entrepreneurship Week’ event that provides Read more…

EUK Ambassador helps to inspire women in Bradford

May 20th, 2010 by Diane Beckett

Over 80 women from Bradford met at the Carlisle Business Centre last night to be inspired by EUK Ambassador Dr Mah Hussain-Gambles to start and grow their businesses. Dr Mah is the owner of SAAF cosmetics which produces a range of Halal approved and organic beauty products. The event was hosted by Bradford Grid and Read more…

European Ambassadors

May 14th, 2010 by jacqui

On the 29th April 2010, Jo Cocker (Women’s Enterprise Development Manager, NWDA) and Sarah Bevan-Fisher (NW Regional Director, Enterprise UK) ran 2 workshops at a Swedish Women’s Enterprise Ambassador Conference in Stockholm. They were invited by Henrietta Schonenstern from the Swedish Agency for Economic & Regional Growth.
The workshops showcased the Northwest’s unique approach to the ambassador Read more…

Making their Mark in Malvern – The Chase School take on Tenners

March 15th, 2010 by caroline

I had a Tenner-tastic afternoon at The Chase School in Malvern.  This group of young people are fairly new to Make Your Mark, but have opted to take part in Make Your Mark activity as part of their Young Chamber.
Part of the group were regionally shortlisted in the West Midlands Make Your Mark Challenge final and Read more…

Enterprise UK Ambassadors scoop awards at Northwest Women in Business Awards

February 3rd, 2010 by jacqui

Three of our Enterprise UK Ambassadors have had their entrepreneurial talent recognised and rewarded at the third annual Northwest Women in Business Awards.
Best Young Entrepreneur WINNER – Anna Heyes
Best Young Entrepreneur RUNNER UP – Lucy Byrne
Best Start Up Business RUNNER UP – Vicky Corcoran
Congratulations to all of you!
For more details about this years awards go Read more…

There’s ’snow’ business like ‘home’ business

January 15th, 2010 by lindsey

Well, we are all aware of the havoc that has been caused by the snow and ice over the last couple of weeks but here in Yorkshire we thought it was the perfect opportunity to look to the positive – yes there is one… home working!
 
Many of our ambassadors are successful home workers. Nadine Hill Read more…

North Yorkshire Women In Business – Step Back to Move Forward

November 19th, 2009 by Diane Beckett

Over 40 women came together for an inspirational Women’s Enterprise Day event organised by Business Link Yorkshire.
It was a great opportunity to hear from a range of inspirational women who shared their enterprise journey including the high’s and lows; a key theme was overcoming barriers to achieve success. I was particularly inspired Read more…

Radio ga ga

November 19th, 2009 by Bonnie

Enterprise UK Ambassador Nadine Hill – Founder of The Dream PA was interviewed on the Supermummy Radio Show on Wednesday. Mel and Nadine chat about Nadine’s book The VA Handbook, the growth of the VA industry, Nadine’s latest project and of course GEW!
If you’d like to listen to her interview please click on this link.

GEWing for gold

November 19th, 2009 by Bonnie

 
 Today marks the 4th day of GEW, and I thought I’d drop a quick blog to tell you all about some of the great events I’ve been to since the GEW launch event on Monday.

On Tuesday I headed to Westminster, for an event called People, Planet, Profit, ran by Talent2Trade. This event included brilliant workshops Read more…

Eimear Picks Up Good Vibrations from the North East!!!!

November 19th, 2009 by Amelia

As I set out on the road yesterday with my lovely colleague Eimear, visiting us from London, I was prepared for a long, busy day, of Global Entrepreneurship Week event reporting.
Boy were we pleasantly surprised when at our last event of the day, feeling a little weary to say the least, we were offered some complimentary stress relief!
Our Read more…

Working women share success during Women’s Enterprise Day

November 19th, 2009 by lindsey

It came as no surprise when we found that women from across the Yorkshire and Humber region were getting involved with Women’s Enterprise Day on 18 November 2009. 
 
With a host of events it was great to see the enthusiasm of those who were considering starting out, alongside those who already have success stories to Read more…

The pains of youth

October 5th, 2009 by jonathan

Last night I spoke to one of my friends, a recent graduate, who has been unemployed for a number of months – a situation I remember well after leaving University, unlike my contemporaries, without a job in the city lined up. We chatted about the sense of worthlessness, the fear and panic that at not Read more…

Happy Birthday Party for Yorkshire & Humber Ambassador

September 25th, 2009 by Diane Beckett

Last night Make Your Mark Yorkshire and Humber attended a first birthday in business party hosted by Make Your Mark Ambassador Claire Cox of Bailey Hunter.
Jane Walton said: “We have worked alongside Claire since the launch of her business in 2008 and are so pleased to see that the business has grown from strength to Read more…

As if the banks didn’t have enough to worry about…..

September 16th, 2009 by Amelia

A look at why businesses run by women access less private equity and venture capital than those run by men.