Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
After 10 years as a PA and office admin in the creative sector and education, Rebekah Harriman established RRVA after the birth of her second child with the growing realisation that combining employment, young children and a fulfilling career were just not working out. Offering Social Media and Business Support to companies across the UK [...]
We are delighted to welcome Leigh Frost as the new group leader for MTB Bedfordshire. For the past 8 years Leigh has been helping businesses across the UK grow at Truesilver, using practical business strategies to help business owners get more sales, more profit and more freedom. And from September Leigh will be taking over the reigns at Bedford, injecting some [...]
Suzanne Dibble is a highly experienced, award winning business lawyer with over 13 years experience. Suzanne worked for 9 years at global law firm DLA Piper before moving in-house to ITV plc and then becoming Legal Director of Hamptons International, the award winning national estate agency. In addition to first rate legal experience, having been [...]
Mother of 2, Tracy Clarke, has developed her business whilst looking after her family and working full time. With a degree in Media Production and as a teacher of ICT, Tracy has turned her sewing skills into a business making hand make accessories for babies and new parents, including Bibbla dribble bibs, bags, changing mats, [...]
Gemma Hopkins started Little Gem Business Support in 2010. Like many mums who start a business, she had years of experience in paid employment and now puts those skills to use in her own business which gives her the flexibility to work around her young children. What inspired you to start your own business? I [...]
We are delighted to announce the launch of Mum’s The Boss North Yorkshire, which will be run and hosted by Louise Roberts Battison who runs Tax Perspective, a tax advisory business specialising in tax advice on employment tax issues and on one-off tax transactions. The launch meeting will be held on Tuesday 10th May from 10.00-12.00 at The Academy, Oakdale Place, [...]
Debbie Atkins, like so many mums in business, set up her own company after the birth of her daughter in 2008. She loves the freedom of running her own business and has a very strong idea of where she wants it to go. What inspired you to start your own business? Whilst employed I was [...]
Like many mum’s in business, Lindsey has created a product after discovering a gap in the market. Whilst expecting her first child she could not find what she wanted to wear during labour. It was whilst on maternity leave with her second child that this idea became an actual product and a business. What inspired you to start [...]
Carol Atkinson is a mum of 2 young boys who set up her own bookkeeping business so she could combine being a mum with working. Carol was Mum’s The Boss’s very first member and has been coming to meetings regularly since 2008. What inspired you to start your own business ? I knew that I didn’t want to commute to London daily [...]
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 [...]
We are delighted to welcome Jane Geldart as the group leader for MTB Avon and Somerset. After 15+ years working in adverting agencies in London she moved to North Somerset with her husband James and her 7 month old baby to be joined just 4 months later by a second child – now 4 and [...]
We are delighted to announce the launch of Mum’s The Boss Avon & Somerset, which will be run and hosted by Jane Geldart who has run her own successful networking group for 18months and has turned her hobby of making eco-friendly, ‘child-friendly’, natural candles (www.plantpure.co.uk ) into a business. The launch meeting will be held on Thursday 17th February [...]
Sarah Chapman of Seven Twelve PR, has joined the MTB team as the local leader of MTB South Yorkshire. Sarah has over 18 years public relations consultancy experience, working for PR and marketing agencies in Sheffield and Manchester. After the birth of her daughter she decided to go freelance and now she helps brands and businesses to communicate better, by generating positive [...]
We are delighted to announce the launch of Mum’s The Boss South Yorkshire, which will be run and hosted by Sarah Chapman who also runs freelance PR consultancy Seven Twelve PR. The first meeting will be held on Tuesday 9th November at the Centre in the Park, Norfolk Heritage Park, Sheffield, from 10.00-12.00. Sarah will be hosting a free of charge [...]
Today is our 2nd Birthday meeting. This time last year we wrote a blog about how far we had come in our first year which ended by saying how excited we were about the coming year. Well let’s just say, it didn’t disappoint! Twelve months on we have a new logo, a new website and a new [...]
Until a year ago Sarah was a childminder and now she runs her own plumbing business. Sarah had already run her own business in her thirties, and always loved the flexibility and the immense sense of achievement being self-employed gave her. Plumbing did not originally press her buttons, but her husband’s passion for the trade started Sarah thinking why couldn’t she combine his skill as a plumber and heating engineer [...]
