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From the Birmingham Post
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, …

From NEBusiness:
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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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.

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 …

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

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 …