Every Day Entrepreneurs

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Move over Branson, Sugar and Caan, a new report from a leading academic reveals over two thirds (68%) of female business start-ups are so-called ‘everyday entrepreneurs’. Based on research conducted with 1,000 self-employed businesswomen, the Avon ‘Everyday Entrepreneur Report’ shows these women are breaking the Branson mould and hadn’t planned to be self-employed business owners. In fact, enterprising women are supporting the UK economy by running thriving enterprises, often from home, and appear to be motivated by flexibility and a passion more than the idea of money and power, with most not even connecting with the word ‘entrepreneur’. For women [...] Read more »

The rising costs of childcare

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For the last three years I have worked for myself running a pretty successful virtual assistant & social media consultancy. I was part of that ever growing band of ‘mumpreneurs’. It was great, I got to spend time with Addison pulled in a reasonable salary and worked on projects every day that I absolutely loved. Recently though this has all changed. Addison has started attending nursery pretty much full time in the run up now for going to big school when she hits 4 next October. What that meant for us financially was a HUGE increase in nursery fees. We [...] Read more »