Motivation & Inspiration for mums in business
Last week figures released by the Bank of England revealed that banks failed to lend their targeted amount of funds to small businesses during 2011. Five major banks, that 12 months ago signed up to the Project Merlin deal, lent a total of £74.9bn to small and medium sized businesses in 2011 against a Government-set [...]
Helen Neale is a mum to two young children, and runs KiddyCharts is an online printable reward charts business. This week she’s getting hot under the collar about academics telling parents that Peppa Pig is corrupting our children. Peppa Pig is corrupting our children! Or at least that’s what the media would have you believe over the [...]
This week, Clare Wildman of Clare Wildman Coaching wants to have a moan at the BBC for the way they are dealing with their budget cuts – and questions whether they are making good business decisions by ignoring their customers opinions: In the BBC’s attempt to provide ‘quality programming’ in response to the requirements for budget [...]
To kick off our new Soap Box section Helen is having a moan about the new girls range from Lego. What do you think? Before I start, can I just say that I am a BIG fan of Lego. Way back in the 70’s when I was a child I spent hours playing with Lego, [...]
In a tribe, not everyone can be a chief. In a big corporation not everyone can be a manager. And in business it is not possible for every entrepreneur to become a millionaire. And not everyone with their own business wants to be the next Richard Branson or Anita Roddick. For many they just want [...]
I was inspired to write this post after some pretty heated debate concerning the merits of two online parenting forums, Netmums versus Mumsnet. One blogger started the ball rolling, looking at the class divide between the two along with her own negative experience, which generated much debate in the comments section. There then followed a conversation on Mumsnet [...]
Yesterday it was confirmed by Mark Prisk, the business and enterprise minister, that Business Link is to be shut down. “The regional Business Links have spent too much time signposting and not enough time actually advising,” Mark Prisk told Real Business yesterday. “We’re going to wind down the Regional Development Agencies, and as part of those, we’ll be [...]
Working for yourself is certainly one way in which to take control of your working hours, be more flexible with childcare arrangements and, more importantly, spend more time with your children when they need you. However, nothing in life is for free: everything has a cost attached. So what is the cost for work at [...]
Where the Bright Women Are is a project with a simple aim – to find all of those bright, cool women we all used to know in our teens, 20s and 30s and discover more about the paths they’d taken, and the choices that they’d made. Fiona, one of the project founders, says “With backgrounds in [...]
“I am what I am And what I am needs no excuses…..” from La Cage aux Folles What’s more I am not a clothes label, a newspaper, a TV channel, a political party, a make of car, a holiday desitination or a brand of buggy. I am not yummy, slummy, earthy, alpha, retro, attachment, middle-class, chav, [...]
I am shocked and bewildered by an aggressive backlash to the recent Mumpreneur Conference in Birmingham, with delegates being accused of attending a ‘discriminatory’ event. One delegate has even been ‘dumped’ by a contact after discovering she had attended the conference. So what can have possibly caused the UK Mumpreneurs to be singled out and [...]
When you’re having one of those days when the thought of sitting in an air-conditioned office in blissful solitude appeals rather more than sitting at your dining room table trying to work while your children are pinching each other and shrieking in the background, then take a moment to think about the following light-hearted advantages [...]
