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These stories feature inspiring women and their experiences of leading businesses at every stage of growth. Use the keyword and growth stage filters to help you find relevant stories more easily.
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My Help to Grow experience
Claire MacDonald
MacMartin
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...
Pawsome Service for Dogs
Nadia Leguel
WagIt
Whilst the nation’s capital is a stimulating place to live and work, for the estimated 1.8 million dogs that reside in London finding dog friendly pubs, bars and restaurants can drive their owners barking mad. WagIt is the brainchild of entrepreneur Nadia Leguel and mummy to Lola - her ten year old King Charles Cavalier.
Purpose is powerful: building businesses with impact at the heart
Shalom Lloyd
Naturally Tribal Skincare
Shalom Lloyd is the founder of Naturally Tribal Skincare, all-natural skincare and eMQT, a clinical trials company that bridges the gap between pharmaceutical trials and Africa.
Raising equity in Lincolnshire
Vicky Whiter
Peters’ Cleaners
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.
Remodelling ‘not only pink and blue’ to a consultancy with the NatWest Accelerator
Clare Willetts
not only pink and blue
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.
Snacks done PROPERly
Cassandra Stavrou
PROPER
PROPER (originally known as PROPERCORN) was founded by Cassandra Stavrou in 2011. Despite studying law and having a successful career in advertising, Cassandra had an entrepreneurial spirit that was always waiting for that one big idea. It came when she saw an opening for more delicious options in the bland healthy snacking market that existed...
Success story: Social media for small businesses – Nicola, Founder of Power of Pants
Nicola
Power of Pants
I can’t believe more people aren’t doing it. Everybody should be using Digital Boost With an extensive business background, Nicola was looking for support to grow the social media for her new sustainable small business. Thanks to Meta’s She Means Business programme, she found Digital Boost’s free mentoring and her business has since gone from strength to...
The Recruitment Duo
Holly Vaughan & Louise Dunn
The Recruitment Duo
From a standing start in 2021, Holly Vaughan and Louise Dunn, cofounders of independent recruitment agency The Recruitment Duo have built a substantial and successful business.
The story of the woman behind Brighton Gin
Kathy Caton
Brighton Gin
Kathy Caton – tells us about setting up and growing Brighton Gin. As founder and CEO of the company, she’s the first to admit that it’s been a challenging journey at times but that the highs have been incredible. Kathy shares the story of her fiercely independent, ethically-driven company.
Value your business and make sure you only give it to people that share your vision and will support your journey
Rachel Curtis
Inicio AI
Can you tell us more about Inicio AI and what inspired you to start your business and begin the journey as an entrepreneur? Inicio AI enables businesses to understand what their customers can afford. We use conversational AI and modern tech such as open banking to enable end consumers to self-serve to complete detailed affordability...