Exciting and innovative direct selling business Mama to Me today opens its doors to parents across the UK by offering an opportunity for area managers to sell parent inspired products directly to the mums and dads who will use them.
The brainchild of Mums, Kerri Lister from Surrey and Amanda Waring from Nottingham, who both have products in the nursery industry, forged their business relationship initially via Twitter and have become firm friends in the process, after meeting up at the 2010 MumpreneurUK  conference.
‘We have both experienced the highs and lows …

With Mumpreneur entering into the Collins English Dictionary, Antonia, who is a leading Mumpreneur herself, was tracked down and interviewed for this great resource site.
The interview covers how Antonia started out on her own in 2003 and her tips to help other Mumpreneurs to get on their way with their businesses.
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Name of Business: Study in Style
Your Name and Age:  Gail Morgan, 48
Tell us about your family:  I have been married to Gareth for nearly 21 years and we have two children – Katy 16 at school and Tom 19 who is at university.

Name of Business:
Sarah’s Fleeces
Your Name and Age:
Sarah Stone, 38
Tell us about your family
I have eight year old twins and a fab husband

A mum who quit the rat race to set up her own business running fun music groups for babies and pre-school children is celebrating after winning a national business award.
Amanda Perkins, 28, from Milton Keynes, scooped the Young Woman Franchisee of the Year award, part of the Encouraging Women into Franchising Awards. 

“A cynic is a man who when he smell flowers, looks for a coffin”.
Oh, the more I travel, the more I realise that the Brits can be cynical. And the longer I run a business which is committed to ‘life-friendly working plans’ the more I come into contact with grumpy cynics who refuse to believe it can work. But please, let me tell you, in no uncertain terms. A flexible working policy for a company can deliver enormous benefits. It does for us.

Embrace 2011 as the National Year of Communication with baby signing, and have your baby say ‘I love you’ before they can even talk…
As parents, we’ve all experienced moments of frustration – our baby is crying and we don’t know what’s wrong, or maybe it’s a toddler with a tantrum, clearly frustrated themselves at not being able to explain how they feel. You find yourself thinking ‘If only they could tell me what was wrong – if only they could talk!’
Well maybe they don’t have to. Maybe there is another …

Antonia Chitty is an award winning entrepreneur and author. She offers help and mentoring for mums with businesses through www.themumpreneurguide.co.uk
Have you thought of going into business? If so, you are one of a rising number of mothers who are becoming business owners and entrepreneurs. According to a survey by Phoenix Trading, more than three in four mums who don’t currently have a business would like to start one. But being a mother and a business owner brings its own challenges.

What do Smart Talkers do?
Smart Talkers pre-school Groups are a fun way to stimulate children’s spoken language development. Devised by qualified, experienced specialist speech & language therapists, these sessions are for all children.

Company Name:
Hooray Hooray.
Description of the business that someone could buy into:
Music and Movement for pre-school aged children.  Services offered: Adult and Child classes, sessions in pre-schools, day nurseries and toddler groups, parties.  A years supply of detailed lesson plans and a full kit are provided to allow Franchise Owners to offer any/all of these services in their defined territory.