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Boost: Empowering Women Through Colourful Breast Prostheses

Last updated on 11 March 2025

Written by Alastair Mogford

Sam Jackman is the founder of Boost, the makers of comfortable and lightweight breast prostheses for women who have had a mastectomy. Sam began her entrepreneurial journey when she saw a gap in the market for breast forms which weren’t beige, boring and heavy.

Remodelling ‘not only pink and blue’ to a consultancy with the NatWest Accelerator

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Last updated on 11 March 2025

Written by Alastair Mogford

Clare has found much use and knowledge from the National Accelerator Partners offered on the programme but in particular has found helpful the network of like-minded entrepreneurs in the cohort. She says she’s found a fantastic variety of business and founders that have been great to work with and offer brilliant community support to provide their insights to navigate their individual problems.

Building leadership skills with Help to Grow

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Last updated on 11 March 2025

Written by Alastair Mogford

My name is Damini Sharma and I am the CEO and Co-Founder of The OM Group. We are a construction consultancy and training business, working nationally. As we are based in the Midlands, I completed the Help to Grow: Management Course with Aston Business School. The OM Group has been established for 15 years and…

My Help to Grow experience

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Last updated on 11 March 2025

Written by Alastair Mogford

I am Claire MacDonald one of the co-founders of MacMartin. We are a design and marketing agency based in Derbyshire. We are full-service, which means we offer a wide range of services from website design, graphic design, social media marketing, paid advertising, Google Ads, and SEO services. We also partner with other companies to expand…

Raising equity in Lincolnshire

Portrait of Vicky Whiter smiling at the camera

Last updated on 11 March 2025

Written by Alastair Mogford

Business owner Vicky Whiter secured over £500,000 of new equity investment for her East Midlands company Peters’ Cleaners through a syndicate of three finance providers.