Following on from my Double Standards? post, this blog is a celebration of the tremendous work being achieved in Yorkshire and the Humber to promote and nurture female entrepreneurs. Our regional development agency Yorkshire Forward is supporting dynamo Etta Cohen who, from scratch, has built up a 3,000-strong “Forward Ladies” forum (above) which provides business [...]

Consultation exercises such as local communities railing against a NIMBY planning application are frequently slated as mere “talking shops” going nowhere. It was therefore with a degree of scepticism that I accepted an invitation as “A female business owner who will shape the future face of enterprise in the UK” – to join fellow female [...]