Make Your Mark - Women

Calling all female entrepreneurs. Do you want to be motivated to action? Are you looking for an event where there is laughter, great entrepreneurial spirit, fantastic networking , sense of community and real life stories of women who are making a difference and contribution to the world of business. 0

Inspired by today’s Real Business newsletter I thought I’d inspire you with ideas of entreprenurs who could help you celebrate Valentine’s Day (or boycott it depending on your romantic status). Something to buy for the ladies; a Clippykit bag, La Diosa Jewellery, Lingerie from Ultimo or Pussy Glamore. A Clippykit bag customised by London school girls. Something to [...] 0

A new research report from our friends in the US, the Kaufmann Foundation, suggests that men-owned business are more successful that women-owned businesses. After two years surveying 5000 businesses they found that women-owned businesses had lower survival rates, lower size, growth, earnings and profits. They suggest a few reasons why this might be the case; - [...] 5

Hey - it’s snowing and let’s face it, it doesn’t happen often to this scale in the UK (well, not since I was a kid in the late 70’s and 80’s!) So as my children are home with me today with school being closed, we had to do a mercy dash to the shops and [...] 0

Today whilst collecting my 6 year old daughter from school, I thought about this question and whether the most enterprising ideas come from a ‘Eureka’ moment or gritted teeth? To fill you in, I’m up in beautiful Yorkshire - well it usually is beautiful but today it’s raining and snowing! This was the reason for [...] 3

We would like to offer a warm welcome to the following new ambassadors… • Rosie Brooks an artist whose work includes children’s books, greetings cards, and much more. • Suzy Miller is the trailblazer behind two successful enterprises. CertainShops links busy people with trusted professionals whose previous clients rave about them, while the Starting Over Show is a unique, [...] 0

If you’re looking for a great blog to read, check out Make Your Mark Ambassador Amanda Jones’ blog which is full of information on Red Button Design (her award winning, humanitarian design company set up with co-founder James Brown), and their latest news - always worth the read. Read their blog here! 0

Check out Make Your Mark Ambassador and founder of Masala Masala and the Masala Masala Trust on her You Tube Channel. At the end of last October, Priya travelled to India to set up the Masala Masala project feeding a homeless person with every pot of curry sauce sold. Find out more about Priya and Masala Masala [...] 0

In September Emelie and Louise Olsson of the Catapult Club won the Pioneer Category at the Girls! Make Your Mark Awards. Along with a £3000 bursary, the girls received money can’t buy mentoring from Emma Jones, founder of Enterprise Nation, author of ‘Spare Room Start Up – how to start a business from home’ [...] 0

Lots of our fabulous female ambassadors were finalists and winners in the Precious Awards, (organised by Precious Online Magazine and sponsored by Pearson Plc and the FEAT Project) which took place last Thursday during Enterprise Week. The finalists were: Best Business (sponsored by the British Library IP and Patent Centre) Runners up Natasha Faith and Semhal Zemikael : [...] 1

Brooklands Hotel in Barnsley was the venue for our big balloon launch today. There were more than 100 women attending a Business Link event today to support women in business and we were there to encourage them to ‘aim high and think big’. We asked the ladies to put their inspirational quotes on tags, which [...] 0

Don’t take our word for how good Enterprise Week is…hear what the UK’s best business mags and websites have to say… http://www.startups.co.uk/6678842910032753952/news.html - news stories about the week launching and Women’s Enterprise Day http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/channel/Entrepreneurship/news/863156/female-species-ambitious-male/ Women’s Enterprise Day http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/channel/Entrepreneurship/news/863405/dont-greedy-succeedy/ Social Enterprise Day http://www.realbusiness.co.uk/business-comment/5471216/global-entrepreneurship-week-begins.thtml. Global Entrepreneurship Week launches and boy do we need it! Let us know if you find any more! 1

Briefly this morning I strayed into an unknown wilderness. But after a few familiar icons came into focus I realised- I was back at the office! But not for long (not even enough time to glug down a cappucino from that machine that has got it in for me). Today- Women’s Enterprise Day- threw me to the [...] 3

Adjust your clocks as the world of work is changing. People in their thousands are heading home from the day job to build a business at nights and weekends. It’s what we call the 5 to 9 economy and it’s a great way of starting a business as it means low cost and low risk. [...] 0

This morning I attended the launch of a new women’s support network. The morning was very well attended by business women and public sector people who can provide invaluable advice and help. I was given a very warm welcome by Phil Cowper and his team from the Tameside Business Family www.tamesidebusinessfamily.com . I arrived just [...] 1

Last night I attended a fab Fab Over 50s event in Preston. Obviously I was only allowed in under my roving reporter remit! The event was light hearted and entertaining aimed at confidence building and presentation skills. Organised by Spark ambassador, Janet Harrison www.creative-academy.co.uk in partnership with image consultant Cliff Bashforth www.simplyimage.co.uk . Cliff gave [...] 0

I’ve been inspired by a wide variety of fantastic entrepreneurs at each event I’ve been to so far this week. From committed community based social entrepreneurs like Chrissey Townsend, founder of the Teviot Action Group, to energetic dynamic young entrepreneurs Sally Broom of YourSafePlanet and Nathaniel Peat of The Safety Box and , to brilliant innovators [...] 4

So what’s all the fuss about you may ask? Well, here’s what we sent to the press yesterday: • UK’s successful Enterprise Week goes global • 77 countries take part in first Global Entrepreneurship Week • UK takes lead with around 6,000 events and over half a million participants • Around the world over 13,000 events will take place in 77 countries • Big name [...] 0

You can find a full list of the events taking place for Global Entrepreneurship Week at www.enterpriseweek.org.uk but here is a few of our favourites: Monday 17 will see a flagship event In the current economic downturn, can entrepreneurs change the world? taking place as part of Chain Reaction. This unique gathering of policy makers, government [...] 0

There’s a major business networking event and exhibition at the Hilton Metropole Hotel, London on Monday 17th November from 6:30pm. The organisers are holding it in support of Global Enterprise Week 2008 and are expecting up to 1,000 businesses to attend. You’re welcome to attend for free! This event brings together many networks and business communities and offers [...] 0