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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
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Mumpreneurs at the Baby Show
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Check out this interview with Rentabuggy by Kidsoup TV
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Mumpreneurs conference keen to spread word on business start-ups
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Six mothers who have set up their own businesses will be rewarded for their efforts at a ceremony which aims to celebrate women from across the UK who balance being a mum with being an entrepreneur.
The Mumpreneur Conference and Awards is set to take place on October 3 and will be a kick start to the inaugural Business Mum Week taking place at the City Inn, Birmingham.
These special working mums will be given awards in six different business categories, which involve, best start up, best green business, best direct sales rep, best franchisee, best online business and the inspirational business mum. Read More…
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Mumpreneur News: Debbie Starts Pier Physiotherapy
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
A PHYSIOTHERAPIST gave birth not only to her new son but to a new business idea while she was on maternity leave.
Debbie Arkley has launched her own private practice to deal with musculoskeletal conditions in Whitley Bay.
The ‘mumpreneur’ behind Pier Physiotherapy graduated as a physiotherapist in 1997 from the University of Northumbria and over the past 13 years she has developed her knowledge and skills to a highly specialised level.
During this time she has obtained an MSc in Manual Therapy from Manchester University and she also passed the entrance examinations to become a member of the Manipulation Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MACP) in 2002.
She said: “I decided that my maternity leave was the ideal time for building the foundations for my new business. I wanted to have more flexibility and a good balance between work and home life… Read More
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Amazing Amanda Hits the Headlines
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
From the Birmingham Post
A young Midlands mum turned entrepreneur has shot to success having been shortlisted for a businesses award.
Mother-of-three Amanda Farren, aged 22, of Coventry, could gain national recognition after being nominated for the 2009 BT Home Business Award, for her online stationary business Ella Announcements.
Ms Farren, who launched the business two years ago, said the business was a deliberate distraction from her daily chores.
She said: “I was looking for something to occupy myself with apart from babytalk.”
Using her graphic design skills, which she taught herself from scratch, Ms Farren took steps to turn what started as a hobby into a profitable business venture. The biggest obstacle she has had to overcome was her age, having set up the business at just 19. She explained: “I had absolutely no experience, having left school to look after my children, I’d never worked.
“It was difficult dealing with people’s preconceptions – when they met me they’d always be surprised at how young I was, and it did knock my confidence.
“I had to work to get people to take me seriously. I’ve seen the people that I’m up against win awards before,” she added.
“I just can’t believe I’ve been put alongside these people, it’s pretty big for me.”
Ms Farren still runs the website single-handedly from what used to be her dining room, working up to 16-hour-days to keep up with the increasing amount of orders.
She has recently started organising local baby fairs, with the first being held in Coventry this June.
Next on her agenda is hosting the Mumpreneur Conference later this year, bringing business Mum’s throughout the UK together for a chance to network and share their experiences.
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Work-Life Balance: How One Mum is Doing is Differently Third Time Around
Monday, September 7th, 2009
Louise Chunn has edited the Guardian’s Women’s pages, Elle, InStyle and Good HouseKeeping. Her high powered career meant that, as a single mum, she relied on nannies. Now, though, she has gone freelance and her third child is benefitting from being dropped off and collected from school by mum. In an article for the Guardian, Louise says, “Regrets, I have a few – but the truth is, for most of my full-time working mother life I did not have the “luxury” of chucking in the towel when family problems impinged. I was a single mother with no immediate family in this country and I was expected to (and felt it right that I should) fend for myself. ”
She concludes with a little advice for every working mum, saying, “I wouldn’t deny any other woman the chance to step into my working-day stilettos, but I would softly whisper, “Are you sure that it’s the right thing to do, for everyone, and not just you?”
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Mumpreneur News: Mums Who Bake offer Cupcake Classes
Friday, September 4th, 2009
- To mark National Cupcake Week 2009, MumsWhoBake is launching a brand new programme of cake decorating classes. Aimed at mothers who enjoy baking but aren’t baking professionals, the classes demonstrate simple and effective techniques which can be learnt in just one session. Starting at only £30 per person, there are classes to suit all tastes.
Whether you want to create fancy cupcakes for the school fete, fashion a breathtaking Christmas cake or simply explore your creativity with lashings of buttercream icing, MumsWhoBake has a class for you. There are group sessions, ideal for friends looking for an unusual and indulgent way to enjoy their “me-time” together. The classes take place just 30 minutes from London and less than an hour from Birmingham, in the picturesque countryside of Castlethorpe, Milton Keynes. (more…)Posted in cooking mums, mums in the media | 1 Comment »
Want to See A Mumpreneur Tell it Like it is?
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Tabithe Potts is this week’s featured BTTradespacer: you can see her views on being a mumpreneur here in a video where she chats about her own motivation for starting a business.
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Mumpreneur News: Grobag Inventors Tackle Toddler Early Waking
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Do you wonder how to keep your toddler in bed? Lighter mornings can lead to little ones waking at 4 or 5 am. Now, Rob & Ouvrielle Holmes, inventors of the Grobag baby sleeping bag have launched the new Gro-clock which solves the problem.
The Holmes’s wanted to find a way of communicating time to 3, 4 and 5 year old children like their own who used to wake up at 5am thinking it was time to get up. The Gro-clock solves the problem by using fun images of the moon and sun to communicate when it’s time to go back to sleep and when it’s time to get up.
It also comes with a bedtime story book, ‘Sleepy Farm’, to help reinforce the message of getting a good night’s sleep! Written by Rob Holmes and beautifully illustrated by leading children’s artist Mike Terry, ‘Sleepy Farm’ tells the tale of Percy Pig who never had any energy to enjoy the day until his farmyard friends “saved some money in a sock and bought the pig a special clock!”
Rob Holmes of The Gro Company says, “When our son William was three he used to wake us up every morning at 5am asking if it was time to get up. It was driving us nuts! We thought to ourselves, how can we communicate time to him when he’s too young to read a clock?
“A few months later I had a ‘light bulb’ moment in the shower! The easiest way to explain the difference between night and day is to use the sun and moon, and we thought it would be great to have a bedtime story book that helps explain the benefits of sleep. With Mothercare stocking the product and 3,000 sold already in the last 2 weeks, parents are loving the Gro-clock and I am blown away by the positive emails I have received from parents all over the UK. The second sleep revolution is just beginning and not a moment too soon, as parents have so much on their mind during this recession, the last thing they can afford to lose is their sleep.”
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Mumpreneur News: Cradle Days Reopens
Friday, August 14th, 2009
A Mumpreneur from Wansbeck is reopening her newley refurbished baby shop, Cradle Days, with a staff made up from her sister, sister-in-law and mother. Read more in this article from NEBusiness
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Writing for a Living: Romantic Novelist Allie Spencer
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
I am a thirty-something ex barrister living in Salisbury Wiltshire who has always harboured an ambition to write comedy. I’m married to Chris (who is also a writer in his spare time, and specialises in academic history books) and we have two boys aged six and three.
I had dreams of being a either an actor or a writer since childhood and found myself writing on-and-off throughout my life, but never really daring to hope I could make a career of it. After an English Degree, followed by a Master’s in Medieval Studies) I qualified as a barrister with a specialism in divorce law and worked for various solicitors’ firms in their matrimonial departments.
Allie Daniell. Image by Chris Daniell
Following the birth of my first child, I realised I didn’t feel comfortable returning to full-time work and managed to get a couple of jobs writing historical audio tours. It was then I decided that if I was serious about making writing my career, I’d better do something about it and began novel writing in earnest.
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Romantic Novelists’ Association. It was at one of their parties that I was introduced to agent Teresa Chris, to whom I pitched Tug of Love, 
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Mumpreneur News: ‘Dribblebuster’ Receives TIPS Clever Design Award
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
TIPS, the prestigious mother and baby product award scheme, has given Dribblebuster a TIPS Clever Design award. Alison Withell, founder of Almarie Designs says on receiving the award:
“It’s very exciting to receive the TIPS Clever Design Award recognising Dribblebuster as a valuable product making life easier for many mums”.
Alison plans to release other innovative products in the near future, adding “Watch this space for new products from Almarie Designs!”
The fashionable double layer absorbent cotton Dribblebuster stood up to the rigorous testing of parents and their babies aged between 4 and 8 months.
Comments from the TIPS tester panel included:
- “It kept her clothes dry and free from dribble”
- “The size is ideal as it does not cover too much of my daughter’s clothing”
- “The fabric is lovely and soft, especially the backing”
- “Easy to wash and air-dried quickly”
- “The bib soaked up the dribble but the bib itself did not look wet”
- “Helps to prevent rash especially in the neck creases”
- “It did save on outfit changes after a few washes”
- “People have asked me what my baby was wearing because they liked it so much”
Sharon Trotter, midwife and founder of TIPS concluded:” Most testers were surprised that such an ingenious product was available. With such positive feedback, I did not hesitate to give the Dribblebuster a TIPS Clever design award”.
For further information on Dribblebuster and TIPS visit www.dribblebuster.co.uk, and www.tipslimited.com.
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