Calling all mums with an entrepreneurial streak, National Business Mum Week is coming to East London!
This
year sees the first ever Business
Mum Week,
a week of activities and meet ups across the UK. This week is
dedicated to women who balance business with family life on a daily
basis to ensure a better future for their families. Mum
of two Tabitha Potts, 39, from Stepney, is ensuring the mums of East
London are
included.
Tabitha
herself
will be hosting a Mumpreneurs Networking Lunch
on
Wednesday 7th
October from 12 noon till 2pm in the Private Dining Room at
Ping Pong Dim Sum, 3 Appold Street London EC2A 2AF tel: 020 7422
0780. The event is free although lunch is not complimentary. Free
copies of the latest Business
Mum’s Journal and
the Book
of Green
eco-directory will
be available and any mum who has ever wanted to run her own business
from home will have the opportunity to meet (and question!) other
‘mumpreneurs’ like Tabitha, in a friendly and relaxed
environment. Antonia Chitty, author of The
Mumpreneur’s Guide,
is attending the event and will give a short talk with her top tips
for mumpreneurs.
In
the lead-up to Business
Mum Week,
Tabitha,
as East London
co-ordinator,
is also looking for mums across the county to hold their own events.
Full support is available and it promises to be a great week for
uniting local women in business.
Tabitha
Potts, of Mimimyne
(www.mimimyne.com)
and
organiser of East London
Business
Mum Week says: “Business
Mum Week
is a great initiative and I’m happy to do everything I can to unite
the business mums of East London and ensure more local women with
children are aware of the family friendly working options out there.
This is a great way to both highlight the work of our mum owned
businesses in and around East London
and
support the growth of more.”
MumsClub
founder, Jane Hopkins, says: “This
is the perfect time for Business
Mum Week.
With so many redundancies and the future potential for job losses, it
is an important time for families to have options. Being self
employed is the perfect way to combine family life with generating a
second income. Women now have the freedom to get paid to do something
they love. Great for household finances, great for self esteem, great
for work-life balance. Starting up from home is low cost, low
risk and incredibly rewarding. The dedication of our local mums has
been astounding. Credit crunch? What credit crunch?”
Find
out more:
Contact
Local organiser Tabitha Potts on 07984 291 409 email
tabitha@mimimyne.com
Updates
of activities taking place throughout the week will appear at
www.businessmumweek.com
and www.mumsclub.co.uk
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Media
notes:
For
media enquiries about business mum week, please contact:
Jane
Hopkins, Founder, MumsClub 01675 465863
Antonia
Chitty, 01424 810 272
About
Business Mum Week
Business
Mum Week will take place from Saturday
the 3rd
– 10th
October.
It is run by Jane Hopkins of MumsClub,
the online business club for mums, and supported by PR expert and
author Antonia Chitty of Family Friendly Working.
The
aims of the week are to:
inspire
more entrepreneurial mums to start a business from home,
encourage
business growth by providing business mums access to information and
ideas,
develop
online and offline support through a national network of home-working
Mumpreneurs.
Business
Mum Week recognises
the challenges such women face and the achievements they have already
made by dedicating a corner of their busy family home to turn their
business ideas into reality. Other confirmed activities include,
regional Mumpreneur meet-up’s, a personal branding evening at
Harvey Nicholls in Birmingham, a networking workshop day in Dorset,
and the inaugural Mumpreneur
Annual Conference and Awards
in the Midlands.
A
few facts & figures on home business
-
Over
two million businesses
already operate mainly from home. *1 -
61%
of new businesses were
launched from home in 2008 *2 -
Home based
business is intrinsically low
carbon.
Operating from one property instead of a separate home and workspace
cuts commuting. It also reduces the carbon emissions generated by
constructing and fuelling separate premises. *3 -
Home based
businesses face lower
costs,
spending significantly less on their workspace and travel than those
using separate premises. Not commuting also saves time, increasing
potential productivity. *4
Sources:
*1
ONS Labour Force Survey
*2
UK Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
*3
& 4 ‘Can Homeworking Save the Planet’, The Smith Institute
