Mia Drennan is the first ever winner of Workingmums.co.uk‘s Working mums champion award. The award recognises both the way her headhunting company Square Mile Connections treats staff and how Mia advocates for wider changes in work culture.
Mia’s staff not only work flexibly, but she has recognised this formally by introducing contracts that are based on hours worked rather than days…
In 2006, Gillian Nissim was a communications manager and had just had her second child. She needed flexible yet challenging work, but wasn’t able to find it.
She decided to do something about it. The result is workingmums.co.uk, a jobs site which puts a huge bank of qualified professional women in touch with family-friendly employers who offer flexible working conditions and work which…
My name is RITA KOBRAK. I love travelling and I love Italy. The idea of mum and baby holidays came about while talking to other mums. Many said they did not feel brave enough to travel on their own with their babies and all the extra baggage that you need to take. This gave me the inspiration for mum and baby retreats in our lovely home in Tuscany.
I went about trying to make the house child…
The ideal gift for all mums, girlfriends and grandmothers. The newly launched website from Posh Paraphernalia, a new online shop for the woman who has everything!
www.poshandlovely.com has great pinnies for children and adults to keep them spick and span whilst preparing Christmas cookies. The Posh Pinny and the Mini Pinny are available online. Posh Paraphernalia aims to add a touch of glamour to…
The work worries of 1,554 mothers are today being made public by Women Like Us, the award-winning recruitment agency that helps mothers to find part-time jobs they can fit with family and provides them with career coaching to help with CVs, interviews and the hunt for jobs in today’s market.
Women Like Us conducted research amongst its members in November 2011, which reveals that 56 per cent…
Mumpreneur turns her passion for fashion in to a cutting edge business! Half-Pint Chic founder makes designer children’s clothes affordable.
Mum to twins Nicole Frost set up Half-Pint Chic after the birth of her daughters, Isabella and Sophie. Previously employed in a demanding advertising role, Nicole relished her busy lifestyle but when the girls came along in 2009 she needed a…
A great opportunity for working parents has presented itself in localpeople, an online hyperlocal community network of websites, currently making new sites available throughout the country. The extended network creates the opportunity for those with an entrepreneurial spirit to essentially run their own unique social-media centres within the heart of their local communities.
This opportunity is…
Another inspirational mumpreneur’s success story. Denise Soden, 39, founded Lillipops in 2009. Pregnant for the first time in 1997, Denise and husband Matt were ecstatic. A week later, however, she was retching and wretched! Denise was experiencing severe vomiting and nausea, struggling to even keep water down, and was diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum – an extreme form of morning…
We continue our popular series of inspirational mumpreneurs’ testimonial. This month we present mother-of-three Emily Evans, founder and owner of 9 London, the original and best maternity boutique located in London’s Sloane Square, and home to gorgeous maternity collections – from one-off vintage pieces to 9 London’s own-label range of beautiful occasion-wear. Designed by Emily Evans…
A semi-detached house and family car in Hornchurch, Essex, received the ultimate big-money makeover yesterday to highlight the amount of savings UK households could make – totalling over £12 billion – when comparing prices online and switching to the cheapest deal.
Figures from price comparison site, ArgosCompare.co.uk, show that UK households could save over £465 each year on…