Women’s enterprise

We’re encouraging more women to have ideas and make them happen. We celebrate and showcase the fantastic achievements of women and girls who have turned their ideas into reality.

Girls! Make Your Mark and Spark

Our Girls! Make Your Mark campaign is aimed at inspiring girls and women in their teens and twenties. Recently it ran the Girls! Make Your Mark awards, in association with handbag.com.

Spark is a network of ambassadors across the UK who inspire women of all ages, through events and telling their inspiring stories in the media.

Women’s Enterprise Day 2009

We are busy preparing for Women’s Enterprise Day (18 November 2009), which went global last year as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week

Women’s Enterprise Day will see organisations from all over the UK hosting events and activities to profile successful female entrepreneurs and inspire new female with the skills, confidence and ambition to ‘aim high and think big’..

Check out what resources are available to help you plan and run an event and see what events took place last year on the 2008 events calendar

To find out more visit: www.enterpriseweek.org.uk/womensenterprise

The International British Female Inventors & Innovators Network Showcase Conference Awards 2009!

GWIIN (Global Women Inventor & Innovators Network) recognises the good work that organisations are doing for the benefit of many women inventors and innovators. As a result, this year they are selecting a few organisations and presenting them with the GWIIN Organisation ‘Special Recognition’ Awards. We are pleased to announce that they have selected Make Your Mark as one of those organisations. There are only 10 companies selected from all over the globe so it is a great achievement for us to be recognised as one of the best!

To find out more visit: www.gwiin.com/

The Specsavers Everywoman in Retail Awards, supported by Make Your Mark

The Specsavers Everywoman in Retail Awards are coming up again this year. The awards aim to highlight the contributions that women are making to their field and to encourage more women to pursue a career in the sector. Being selected as a finalist, or in fact winning an award, will attract attention and support from the business world, government, industry and the press. It will recognise the nominee as an inspirational ‘role model’ who will inspire more women to consider a career in the retail industry.

To find out more visit www.everywoman.com/everywomanAwards/everywomaninRetailAwards/

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