100 of the UK’s most inspiring female entrepreneurs celebrated 

Above: Emma Filby: founding father of Anglian Canine Walks

Small Enterprise Britain has revealed this 12 months’s most dynamic feminine entrepreneurs, highlighting a line-up of 100 girls operating a number of the UK’s most spectacular companies.

Showcasing the exceptional contribution to society, financial system and communities from the rising tide of feminine founders throughout the UK, this 12 months’s f:Entrepreneur ‘#IAlso100’ marketing campaign consists of girls enterprise homeowners main the best way in every thing from AI and sustainability to artwork, regulation and engineering.

• • Adaku Parker: founding father of Dovetailed London, an African style and stitching model on a mission to encourage and encourage girls so as to add color and print to their wardrobes and houses.
  • Alex Hamilton-Bray: founding father of Heartwood Glass, creating glass sculptures from her studio in Hertfordshire, and holding workshops for her neighborhood.
  • Amanda Harris: founding father of ALH Authorized, primarily based in Nottinghamshire. Specialising in Wills, Trusts, and Lasting Powers of Legal professional, Amanda can also be a keynote speaker, delivering motivational talks specializing in visible impairment.
  • Amy Yip: founding father of Eco Twenty, specializing in sustainability and decreasing waste from the mass manufacturing of clothes and textiles, encouraging extra eco-friendly procuring.
  • Ana Cantu: founding father of Little Inexperienced Paper Store, a seed paper printing enterprise utilizing cotton waste and recycled paper, devoted to fostering sustainability.
  • Andrea Boughton: founding father of Beehive Inexperienced, a boutique model and design studio primarily based in Welwyn Backyard Metropolis, which goals to make good design extra accessible
  • Anila Arshad-Mehmood: founding father of Welfare Means, which delivers coaching and consultancy to training establishments, championing secure working practices and assist for college kids and younger folks in our communities.
  • Anna Stella: founding father of BBSA, a full-service outsourced advertising and marketing company that helps purchasers with each cost-effective advertising and marketing technique and implementation, began within the UK and is increasing internationally.
  • Ashley Costello: founding father of The Resilient Child, a programme supporting younger folks and households with varied points from on a regular basis household life and psychological well being.
  • Asmae Chtou: founding father of Modviva, a web-based boutique specialising in pre-owned luxurious purses and sneakers, catering to fashion-conscious people.
  • Becci Coombes: founding father of Hygge Model, a web-based store promoting Scandinavian presents and homewares impressed by her Danish grandmother.
  • Betsy Benn, left: designer of luxurious personalised presents, making every thing in-house and sending out about 20,000 presents per 12 months.
  • Carol Vickers: founding father of Created by Carol, designing and making sterling silver jewelry with a objective; by upcycling redundant vintage silver cutlery, creating easy-on and adjustable jewelry for folks with arthritis or hand issues, and sensory jewelry for folks with anxiousness or neurodivergent situations.
  • Christina Valentine: founding father of Tradeswoman Extraordinaire, enterprise residential/industrial initiatives, restoring or refurbishing them.
  • Claire Gardner: a branding photographer working with entrepreneurs and small enterprise homeowners to be sure that they’re attracting their preferrred purchasers.
  • Claire Worthington: founding father of Village Internet Firm, a small social enterprise that primarily works with small companies to assist them take advantage of the web.
  • Connie Smith: founding father of Wild About Britain, a British wildlife training enterprise, elevating consciousness for the significance of conservation for native wildlife.
  • Crystal Dias: founding father of Lawyery, a digital boutique household regulation agency specialising in immigration, particularly for weak purchasers throughout the Filipino neighborhood.
  • Daphne Pena-Higgs: founding father of  Classical Pilates, one of many largest classical Pilates studios in London, based after Daphne suffered accidents throughout her profession on London’s West Finish.
  • Dina Bahrami: co-founder of Nutri Beauties, with a mission of selling internal magnificence and wellness sustainably, notably amongst younger adults.
  • Donna Laine: founding father of a boutique jewelry store in Winchester, filled with beautiful handmade and pre-owned, pre-loved and vintage jewelry.
  • Ebony Bain: founding father of Braids and Magnificence London, a pure hair salon specialising in braids and pure hairstyles. Alongside this, Ebony has based Afro Coils, a pure hair care line offering pure oils that combats hair loss, dry hair and scalp.
  • Eilidh Jamieson: founding father of Ejay Designs, crafting watercolour maps, utilizing gold acrylic and gold mud for accents.
  • Ela Teague: founding father of Prepare dinner Eat Pleasure, an Indian cookery faculty with lessons that spotlight the regional meals of India in addition to embrace true dwelling cooking.
  • Elena Sinel: founding father of Teenagers in AI, a social impact-driven initiative inspiring youngsters to discover a future in tech and AI by collaborative, hands-on studying experiences.
  • Emma Clarkeis a multi-faceted creator offering voiceover providers to media organisations and companies, along with her voice being heard throughout radio and TV commercials, video games, apps, speaking toys, and public transport.
  • Emma Filby:founding father of Anglian Canine Walks, providing normal canine coaching as a part of a mission to assist as many individuals and pets as potential with tried and examined strategies from her personal working canine.
  • Emma Webster: founding father of Haus Dahlia, a sustainable measurement inclusive handmade clothes model comprised of a wide range of sustainable supplies and materials.
  • Erin Thomas Wong: Small Enterprise Mentor serving to girls to undertake a life-friendly method to their enterprise. This implies constructing it on their very own phrases, at their very own tempo and to their very own measures of success.
  • Frankie Grey: founding father of Concord at Residence, offering recruitment providers for folks and baby carers with excellent ranges of service and care.
  • Hayley Kellard: founding father of Dotty About Braille, producing a variety of personalised braille greetings playing cards, letters, labels, primarily based on her expertise with visible impairment.
  • Helen Holt: founding father of Styled Residence Studios, a platform the place impartial manufacturers and artistic professionals can guide uniquely styled areas for photoshoots, movie and content material creation by the hour, immediately with the house owner.
  • Helen Massy is a medical and well being journalist and content material author with a mission to interrupt down taboos and promote knowledgeable discussions on essential well being subjects.
  • Helen Neal: founding father of HN Communications which specialises in sustainability communications, to assist the planet get nearer to web zero.
  • Helen Smith runs a training enterprise, serving to girls rework entrepreneurial journeys into paths of readability and self-celebration.
  • Helen Tonks: founding father of Hydraulics On-line, an award-winning hydraulic tools and options supplier, working throughout a portfolio of over 150 hydraulic producers and suppliers.
  • Janan Leo, left: founding father of Cocorose London, an impartial girls’s footwear model and ecommerce enterprise, impressed to understand her dream of launching the foldable shoe.
  • Jannicke Ive: founding father of A Household’s Greatest Buddy, a domiciliary care supplier for kids and adults with disabilities.
  • Janthana Kaenprakhamroy: founding father of Tapoly, a platform that harnesses large knowledge and synthetic intelligence to exactly match insurance coverage merchandise with clients’ necessities.
  • Jayda Zaman: founding father of As soon as Upon a Dua, the UK’s and the world’s first Scandinavian-influenced, faith-inspired child life-style model.
  • Jen Parker: founding father of Fuzzy Flamingo, modifying, design and publishing providers, working with authors to attain their publishing targets.
  • Jessamine Hislop: founding father of Little Pickles Markets which facilitates ‘almost new gross sales’, retaining good high quality child and youngsters’s toys, garments and tools within the loop and out of the landfill.
  • Jo North: founding father of Shin Books, a collection of inclusive kids’s books which elevate consciousness, take away stigma and normalise a variety of situations and disabilities comparable to dyspraxia, ADHD and Tourette’s.
  • Jo Smedley: founding father of Crimson Herring Video games, a world gaming enterprise, often working with charities to assist them elevate funds by internet hosting homicide thriller occasions.
  • Joanne Lo is an training marketing consultant, specializing in delivering workshops in Social and Emotional Studying.
  • Joanne Munis, founding father of Vested Girl, which offers monetary training to assist girls turn out to be financially impartial and construct wealth by teaching, workshops, programs, webinars and suggestions.
  • Julie Begbie: founding father of Completely happy Aspect Hustle, empowering people, notably girls, to forge their very own paths to success and happiness by aspect hustles.
  • Karen Holden: founding father of A Metropolis Legislationagency, an modern regulation agency that provides recommendation and assist in modern areas comparable to tech regulation, Blockchain and AI, drones, surrogacy and assist companies and people alike.
  • Katie Killip: founding father of Mantra, a branding company, serving to companies that work in social impression, sustainability, or are purpose-driven.
  • Kavitha Soundararajan: founding father of Isifiso, which promotes eco-consciousness by its sustainable style workshops.
  • Kimberley Shamtally: founding father of Muscle Mechanics, which creates pure physique restore kits for on a regular basis aches and pains.
  • Lara Omoloja: founding father of Greenwich Pantry, an impartial meals enterprise which runs cooking colleges for teenagers and adults, newbie or superior.
  • Laura Barker: founding father of Popili Residence, which specialises in crafting handmade luxurious wax melts, candle reward units, and personalised reward luggage.
  • Leah Holroyd: founding father of White Bicycle, which works with those who wish to make a distinction by training and coaching.
  • Linda Blanchette: founding father of Consciously Clothed, a singular cell preloved boutique, serving to the area people to resell and purchase high quality preloved garments, retaining garments in circulation and out of landfill.
  • Lindsay Hayman: founding father of Ojewellery, a jewelry model utilizing pure gemstone jewelry set in valuable metals.
  • Liz Value: founding father of Full Body Coach which helps girls who really feel marginalised to satisfy their management potential.
  • Louise Plunkett: founding father of IMPACT with Lou and a digital accessibility and inclusion educator, sharing her lived experiences, suggestions and information by way of social media, in addition to teaching, programs or workshops for companies to deepen information
  • Lucinda White: founding father of Pure Awards, a enterprise award writing and content material creation company primarily based in Derbyshire.
  • Lydia Berman: founding father of Artistic Stripes, a design and advertising and marketing company primarily based in Hertfordshire, working with enterprise throughout the UK and Europe.
  • Lydia McDowall: a confidence coach serving to girls discover the arrogance and braveness they should dwell fulfilled lives.
  • Lyndsey Clay: founding father of Related Brighton, a concierge service devoted to introducing folks to locations and merchandise to take advantage of Brighton life.
  • Maggie Trevillion: founding father of Callen Olive, a luxurious moral skincare model for legs and ft within the aesthetic, magnificence and podiatry industries.
  • Maisie Stanyon: founding father of Rework Classic Wholesalers, an answer to cut back textile waste and alter the best way new clothes is manufactured globally.
  • Marian Bruce: founding father of Highland Boundary, a botanical spirits enterprise working to revive biodiversity throughout Scotland and reconnect folks with the misplaced information, flavours and tradition of its wild crops.
  • Maylene Seah: a branding skilled working to rework visionary Muslim companies into charming manufacturers.
  • Milly Fyfe: founding father of No Fuss Meals for Busy Dad and mom, a social enterprise that gives a connection between meals produced within the UK and cookery guides.
  • Nazia Anwar: Social Blox on a mission is to supply the digital instruments, expertise, and information that communities and non-profits must create lasting transformations.
  • Nicci Simpson: founding father of Devon Eco Boutique, a life-style retailer in Devon catering for an eco-friendlier life-style.
  • Nicola Twiddy:founding father of Little Twidlets, a sustainable store in Shropshire, promoting an entire vary of eco-friendly merchandise.
  • Nikki Butler: founding father of The Autistic Joyologist, which offers on-line programs, digital downloads, and visitor talking, to assist feminine neurodiverse girls align their lives to their values, passions, and targets, and redefine success on their phrases.
  • Nikki Strand: founding father of The Pure Crayon Firm which make vegan- pleasant pure wax crayons, handmade from scratch utilizing sustainably sourced waxes and meals grade pigments.
  • Nina Fuller-Shavel:founding father of Synthesis Clinic which is a specialist-led observe the place the perfect of latest, cutting-edge precision drugs and well being is interwoven with evidence-based vitamin, life-style, psycho-emotional wellbeing, and complementary therapies.
  • Pippa Birch: founding father of Pipster Options, offering sensible assist for successful public sector work within the highways business, providing versatile and bespoke options.
  • Pippa Moyle: founding father of the Metropolis Lady Community aiming to assist, join and empower girls residing all around the UK.
  • Promise Okoye: founding father of D’lux Reward Field, a personalised reward field enterprise which hand-packages confectionery and self-care treats.
  • Rachel Collar: founding father of Haus of HR, a human assets consultancy that specialises in offering complete HR options to small companies and start-ups.
  • Rachel Harvey, left: founding father of The Paint Field,a 13-year-old paint-your-own pottery studio open to all ages.
  • Rakha Madahar: founding father of desgn.prnt; a Floor Sample Designer and Illustrator, producing and promoting  daring and vibrant digital patterns and prints.
  • Rhea Freeman is a small enterprise coach and mentor, an NLP Grasp Practitioner and Coach and a multi award successful PR adviser, model and social media skilled.
  • Sally Pierse: founding father of The Chai Bike, a scorching drinks supply enterprise with the ‘communi-tea at its coronary heart.’
  • Samantha Engleby: founding father of Eckersleys Blinds, which manufactures and provides window coverings and awnings in Southport and surrounding areas.
  • Sara Chandran: founding father of Contemporary and Fearless, a variety, fairness and inclusion consultancy which offers bespoke steerage to organisations to create a office tradition the place all its folks may be seen, heard and valued.
  • Sara Kedge: founding father of Preponderant, a Range, Fairness and Inclusion consultancy, making the queer and neurodivergent expertise seen.
  • Sara-Louise Ackrill: founding father of Wired In another way, serving people who find themselves neurodivergent and professionals, leaders or college students and drawing on her personal expertise of getting ADHD and being autistic.
  • Sarah Ellis: founding father of Theatre Inspiring Changea nationwide touring firm   with a mix of a play and interactive workshops.
  • Sarah Hodgkins is a mural and scenic artist, signal author, and pretend finisher who additionally restores historic murals.
  • Sarah Kingston: founding father of In Good Firm, a brand new platform that helps folks shortly discover the perfect moral, sustainable and socially acutely aware small companies of their neighborhood or when they’re visiting someplace new.
  • Sarah Webb: founding father of MHCAT, educating inclusive psychological well being coaching and teaching programs together with Psychological Well being First Assist and Suicide First Assist, in addition to bespoke office well being and wellbeing initiatives.
  • Sharon Farley-Mason: disabled entrepreneur and founding father of Glamsticks, providing bespoke mobility aids for folks with disabilities.
  • Sophie Crabb:founding father of Sew Sophie Crafts, her personal assortment of beginner-friendly cross sew kits.
  • Sophie Lee: founding father of Electrical Peach, a model storytelling and impression company.
  • Sophie Spillett: founding father of So-Phi Tuition, educating maths, English, and creates textbooks which might be accessible to college students with dyslexia and autism.
  • Sybz Mickson: founding father of Sam II, which offers underwear appropriate for durations, menarche, postpartum and medical situations that trigger heavy menstrual bleeding comparable to PCOS, Endometriosis and Fibroids.
  • Tanya Petherick: founding father of Membership Central, which offers an annual convention for the out-of-school sector.
  • Tina Kad: founding father of Speech Remedy Interactive, a non-public speech remedy observe primarily based in Loughton, Essex.
  • Vanessa Barzasi: founding father of BioBright, which presents algae crops as an inside design ornament.
  • Victoria Ajoku: founding father of Fan The Glory With Tori, which seeks to revive the idea of the fan proper throughout the UK.
  • Vie Portland: founding father of VieNess Uncover You You Love, educating shallowness and confidence workshops to kids, teenagers, and girls in colleges, teams, organisations, and libraries.

  ·   Zoey Hughes: founding father of Enterprise Bee Providers, providing a variety of enterprise assist providers from strategic assist, enterprise development consultancy, enterprise mentoring, government help, search engine optimization, and advertising and marketing assist

The marketing campaign follows findings from the Authorities-backed Rose Evaluate exhibiting over 150,000 new firms have been began by girls in 2022 – greater than twice as many as in 2018. Analysis from Small Enterprise Britain final 12 months additionally confirmed over a 3rd (39%) of feminine entrepreneurs did so for better flexibility and to enhance their work-life steadiness, with 86% saying they felt happier in consequence.

“There was a major improve within the variety of feminine entrepreneurs within the UK over the previous few years—girls who make important contributions to our financial system, and who encourage so many alongside the best way,” stated Michelle Ovens CBE, founding father of Small Enterprise Britain. “Regardless of the challenges they face on daily basis, these girls are extraordinarily resilient and proceed to symbolize the way forward for the UK financial system. By the f:Entrepreneur marketing campaign, we wish to shine a much-deserved mild on the successes of feminine enterprise homeowners on this nation and the immeasurable impression they’ve on their communities.”

The f:Entrepreneur marketing campaign was launched in 2017 to boost better consciousness of the impression of unbelievable feminine enterprise homeowners throughout the nation, who typically lead purpose-driven companies and assist their communities alongside the best way by volunteering, mentoring, and different neighborhood assist.

Delivered by Small Enterprise Britain—the main champion of small companies within the UK—the f:Entrepreneur marketing campaign presents a bunch of occasions, coaching, and networking alternatives to spice up expertise, functionality, and confidence.

To see the complete line-up of the 100 girls featured on this 12 months’s f:Entrepreneur #iAlso100 marketing campaign go to f-entrepreneur.com/ialso-100-2024.

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