Press Beth Kume-Holland

Establishments who are taking part in the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme can use posters, images, and other promotional material here. Female Founders Forum 2020 Digital Events In light of COVID-19, we have been busily re-invigorating our 2020 Female Founders Forum event schedule. This year, we will be hosting a series of Webinars on key policy issues pertinent to our female founders to help support them through COVID-19 and beyond. We are creating 7 virtual scale-up hubs for regions across the UK, including Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Cardiff, Southampton and Edinburgh.

The ITARMI platform promises to connect businesses with nearby IT engineers who have the skills they need … ‘If you have a great team and the foundations of a great business model, then you will be able to survive any challenge that comes your way’ … Alexa-Maria Rathbone Barker says the programme helped counter “the lonely world of being a founder”. Former Bloomberg executive Alexa-Maria Rathbone Barker says she started tripAbrood “to solve the pain points of researching and booking family holiday” – pain points she knew all too well as a time-poor mother of three children. Navrina Singh says having access to Barclays’ networks was “transformational”.

What is the Female Founders First programme?

Students who were randomly assigned a mentor who was an entrepreneur were 9% more likely to start a business than those assigned a non-entrepreneur mentor.We also need to do more to raise the profile of potential role-models who are entrepreneurs. We should celebrate female founders in the news, in films and television, and in schools. This means that everyone has a role to play in supporting female entrepreneurs. The Barclays coronavirus support hub provides the latest information, tools and guidance to support businesses throughout the coronavirus pandemic. This hub includes information about Barclays’ products, webinars, Facebook live events and more information on how to access the government schemes. You can also download Barclays’ coronavirus checklist to support your business resilience planning throughout this period.

The competition aims to fast-track the development of innovations, borne out of the coronavirus crisis and support the next generation of UK cutting-edge start-ups. With support from Barclays, we are continuing in our efforts this year to provide female entrepreneurs with the support, advice and networks they need to succeed. We will be sending out invitations to our digital events in our FFF Newsletter, which you can sign up to here. Support for university research and innovationThe Government has announced 2 new packages to support research jobs and ground-breaking projects impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. If so, please connect them directly to me at  will be sending through our Newsletter every two weeks.

Alice Pelton, EF alum and founder of The Lowndown on unleashing period power for good

Investment Director Jenny Engerfelt (formerly Almi Invest) supported by a senior Venture Advisor Malin Carlstrom (Head of Ventures at ABB Electrification) will grow Voima Ventures’ investment operations in Sweden. Women-led VC funds are still few and far between, especially in the male-dominated deeptech field. While the arena has come a long way, there is still much work to be done to ensure that both the VC and startup spaces have a more even playing field. We took a look into the position of women in Europe’s startup ecosystem recently. Headquartered in Helsinki, Voima Ventures is a VC firm dedicated to the world of deep tech on a mission to scale solutions that are focused on science and diversity. The firm is now taking the Nordics by storm bringing two seasoned female VC execs into the fold.

In our latest FFF Newsletter, we covered Erika Brodnock’s thoughts. Erika is co-founder of Extend Ventures and one of our Female Founders. Speaking to Amy Lewin from Sifted, Erika said “For too long, minority entrepreneurs have remained unsupported and have needed to ‘fend for themselves’… We need to ensure this isn’t going to be the same for newer businesses”. The MSDUK report also highlights the barriers to entry, discrimination, and difficulties in raising VC financing for BAME entrepreneurs, especially businesses run by Black women who are the most under-represented.

Friday Finance, founded via EF Berlin, receives €2.5 million in funding

There is also an updated FAQs section on the hub.Barclays is also developing further digital content, including Q&A videos with our Members, which will go live on our new YouTube channel. We will update you via Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn when the Q&A videos go live. There is power in the collective impact of women banding together to support one another. For many of our Female Founders, the pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges, making strong female networks more important then ever. In our Mentoring Matters report we talked about how mentoring increased not only knowledge and skills, but importantly self-confidence.

• Séraphine makes maternity clothing, and founder Cécile Reinaud told us that they first targeted countries where the maternity fashion market was underdeveloped.
• Lara Sheldrake, Founder of Found & Flourish shares her mission with @Underpinned.
• The network has its HQ in London UK, with its first international chapter in Toronto, Canada and in November 2020 has launched its first university society with Queens University, Canada.
• In order to support viable jobs, employees must be working at least 33% of their usual hours.
• Barclays Coronavirus Support HubThe Barclays COVID-19 Support Hub provides the latest information, tools, and guidance to support businesses throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
• The grant will be calculated based on the usual salary of the employee and capped at  £697.92 per month.

After a few months of being kept away, it seems that shoppers are keen to spend again. The past few weeks have seen a surge in hiring, as businesses (accurately) predicted this bounce back in demand.Frances Bishop is the founder of a children’s clothing shop, The Pud Store. As Amy Lewin noted in her Sifted article on the Future Fund’s first set of diversity data, it is worth mentioning that the data applies to the ‘senior management team’ – not just founders.

Chattermill, which uses AI to extract insights from customer experience data, raises US$26M

Julianne Ponan, CEO of Creative Nature — a healthy snacks business shared her own experiences and the discrimination she felt during the fundraising process. Comparatively, 76% of investment https://bookkeeping-reviews.com/techround-s-top-female-entrepreneurs-to-watch-in/ went to teams of all white entrepreneurs, and 23% to mixed teams. The lack of diversity within the investment landscape is a barrier for many entrepreneurs from underrepresented backgrounds.

• A one-off, six-week virtual programme created by Barclays and seed accelerator Techstars, Female Founders First is dedicated to helping innovative women-led startups to grow.
• If you look at the ungendered data the simple story is that children adopted by entrepreneurs are more likely to pursue entrepreneurship.
• A virtual conference celebrating the successes and resilience of female founders and underrepresented women in business across the UK.
• The British Business Bank has published its first set of data on the 252 companies who have been approved for matched-funding from the Future Fund.
• And hear the latest insights from our global network of founders, investors and advisors.
• A recent report from think-tank OPEN, on behalf of MSDUK, a nonprofit championing diversity in business supply chains, highlights that eight of the 21 unicorns in the U.K.

People who work with or live in the same neighbourhoods as entrepreneurs are more likely to become entrepreneurs themselves.The evidence that entrepreneurship has to be inspired is clear but what about female entrepreneurs? It seems that the degree to which entrepreneurship is contagious depends on how similar one is to the entrepreneur inspiring them. If to start a business you need to see someone else make a success of it, it follows that that person should be relatable in some way.Girls appear to be more susceptible to this effect than boys. Boys can see male entrepreneurs in the news all the time; Mark Zuckerberg, Sir Alan Sugar and Jeff Bezos are household names.

We were also joined by Juliet Rogan, head of Barclays HG&E team. In this session, we heard from Eugenia Migliori, Principal Policy Adviser at the Confederation of British Industry, alongside incredible female founders including Aimee Bateman, founder and CEO of Careercake.com and Tugce Bulut, founder and CEO of Streetbees. Black businesses can thrive with the right support, mentorship and funding. Being part of community networks like ACE Entrepreneurs, is how we can drive the future of diverse businesses. The UK Government announced an additional £40 million funding package to support the UK’s next generation of innovative businesses, doubling their investment in the Fast Start Competition.

• Another attendee spoke about her challenges accessing funding and asked what more could be done to connect female founders with mentors.
• This hub includes information about Barclays’ products, webinars, Facebook Live events, and more information on how to access government schemes.
• Several years ago, colleagues from my old consulting firm, the RBL Group, wrote about a clever way to convert business goals into a plan of action and investment …
• So this isn’t a problem that’s confined to any particular business model; it’s occurring globally, within every supply chain.
• The past 18 months have shaken the traditional idea of a 9 to 5 working week.

Cambridge Judge Business School will get in touch to confirm your place on the programme, including how to access the online platform, which launches on 22 June 2020. For more information, check out Barclays Back to Business Programme. The Female Founders Forum is hosting a series of webinars to bring leading business owners and parliamentarians together to discuss key policy issues pertinent to female founders in order to to support them through COVID-19 and beyond.

“Thank you to those who nominated me, J.P. Morgan and the judges for their selection. I look forward to celebrating and connecting with all the other successful entrepreneurs at this year’s awards.” Founder Beth Kume-Holland tops list as Patchwork Hub is announced ‘Top Disability startup for 2021’… Beth Kume-Holland and her disabled-led talent platform, Patchwork Hub, have been chosen as one of the UK’s top 100 small businesses…

• The Bounce Back Loan scheme for small businesses launched last week.
• The competition aims to fast-track the development of innovations, borne out of the coronavirus crisis and support the next generation of UK cutting-edge start-ups.
• It is clear that the entrepreneurial landscape is diverse and that entrepreneurial spirit is thriving within the BAME community.
• “But it also didn’t make economic sense – waste is expensive.

We featured a part of The Sun’s choice of the best initiatives to support black business owners and career ladder climbers. Working my arse off building a community, events & media platform as well as service my clients and bringing https://bookkeeping-reviews.com/ up my son. To empower women in business and to help close the opportunity gap. Meet the inspiring female business leaders who have made NatWest and Telegraph’s prestigious ‘100 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch’ for 2023.