Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
This year, why not send your festive greeting to clients or suppliers with a Christmas eCard from CLIC Sargent. CLIC Sargent’s e-cards are a great way to celebrate any special occasion. They’re more convenient than using a post box, environmentally friendly and each card you send helps children and young people with cancer. Simply select and personalise your card, [...]
Every year, here at MTB, we choose a nominated charity for which to fundraise throughout the year. Last year we raised money for Oxfam’s Train a Businesswoman scheme and for 2011 we have chosen Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK as our nominated charity. Charity Registration Nos. 295672/SC037479 Make-A-Wish is a charity with a single purpose – granting magical wishes [...]
Normally on a Friday Mum’s The Blog becomes a hive of activity when we run our Freebie Friday giveaways. But as today is Children in Need we decided to swap Freebie Friday for Feelgood Friday and invite you to make a donation to Pudsey and in doing so to feel good about doing your bit for charity. [...]
Karen Dell’ Armi is a designer, mum of two, welsh women walking member and founder of Karen Dell’ Armi Contemporary Jewellery. Here she talks about what inspired her to start up in business and decide to take part in a charity climb of Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of Breast Cancer Care. What inspired you to start your [...]
Some months ago I was delighted to be asked if one of my poems could be included in an online magazine written by mums for mums, called Mummo Mag, to raise awareness of the Million Mums Campaign. Million Mums is a campaign we have supported for some time now, and was the reason why we [...]
As most of you will know, cake is very important to me – I love baking it and I love eating it. It never ceases to amaze me how so few ingredients can metamorphosise into something quite so delicious. I love reading cookery books and trying out new recipes and, having relatively few ingredients, cake is [...]
No-one can have avoided the stories and pictures of the catastrophic earthquake that has hit Haiti. Estimates of the numbers killed by the earthquake range from 50,000 to at least 200,000 and while food and water are finally reaching some parts of the capital Port-au-Prince, large numbers of survivors are still having to fend for [...]
In 2010 we have set ourselves a challenge – to raise £1404 to enable us to fund the training of 52 new business women in the developing world – that’s 1 new businesswoman for every week of the year! In 2010 Mum’s The Boss’ nominated charity is Oxfam and, through the Oxfam Unwrapped programme, we want to raise [...]
We wrote a couple of weeks ago about our honour at being invited by Sarah Brown to attend the Downing Tweet Christmas Party on 4th December. Honour quickly turned to excitement, trepidation and a full scale shopping and pampering spree the like of which neither of us had never seen before! And now the party is just a memory [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote about my Golden Twitter Moment, when I was honoured to receive a ’tweet’ from the magnificent Stephen Fry. When I read back over that post I still get goosebumps at the fact that, from amongst all those hundreds of thousands of followers, he happened to notice me! However, we @mumstheboss (aka [...]
Need to get organised and start planning for 2010? Then how about this pink filofax from online office supplies retailer Euroffice, where £2.20 will be donated to Breast Cancer Care. Euroffice has a range of pink office supplies where money is donated to breast cancer, including notebooks, diaries, pens and staplers, which would make the perfect [...]
