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October 4, 2022|Business

Yes I want you in my world!

Within the first 5 seconds of reading this we decide if you're 'IN or OUT' a continuing conversation or forever deleted...2 seconds in the written word. Instant YES - I WANT YOU IN MY WORLD, your emails in my inbox, a coffee in Starbucks or NO - I'm lumping you in with everyone else I encountered today. Because I just don't SEE you. I just don't FEEL anything that makes me want to continue any kind of business or social friendship with you so goodbye. ANYONE CAN BECOME A MASTER OF ''INSTAN

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September 26, 2022|Entrepreneurs

Refugee from Ukraine launches fashion business in Yorkshire

Yana Smaglo previously had a successful fashion and beauty business in Ukraine, but upon waking to explosions in February this year, fled the country. With only 15 minutes to pack a few things, friends drove her to Lviv, where along with thousands of people and families she was able to make it across the border to Poland, and subsequently to the UK. She is currently residing with a family in Huddersfield, but is about to re-launch her business in the UK, with the support of many Yorkshire busi

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September 23, 2022|Entrepreneurs

Yorkshire entrepreneur encourages others to accelerate their business

Branding and digital marketing expert Larisa Barker is urging entrepreneurs to take up the offer of six months’ free advice in a programme run by Leeds Beckett University. The ACCELERATE programme brings together masterclasses, weekly webinars, one to one support and advice on grants and funding. It has been run nine times already and another cohort is due to start on the 28 September, with some content delivered face-to-face in Leeds and other parts being online. Larisa, who has been on ACC

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September 13, 2022|Fashion and Lifestyle

How Agnis is weaving her magic at historic Sunny Bank Mills

The traditional art of weaving is flourishing at the iconic Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley, near Leeds. A new series of weaving classes for beginners has been launched at Sunny Bank, one of the last remaining family-owned mills in Yorkshire. The first class starts on Friday September 16 and will be held in the Weaving Shed at the mill. The six-week course, which finishes on Friday October 21 will be taken by educator and weaver Agnis Smallwood (pictured) from Leeds. Sunny Bank Mills is one of

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June 13, 2022|Entrepreneurs

Celebrating 20 years of Female Entrepreneurial Success

The 2022 everywoman Awards are now open for nominations until 11th July 2022. Celebrating their 20th year, the awards identify and celebrate inspirational female founders whose innovation, passion and purpose will inspire future generations of entrepreneurial women. Lauded by government with a reception at 11 Downing Street when this ground-breaking programme launched in 2003, business owners recognised by the everywoman Awards have been invited to front UK trade and industry campaigns, to parti

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May 17, 2022|Business

Marketing consultancy celebrates a raft of new clients

Huddersfield-based marketing consultancy, We Are Circle, are celebrating a raft of new business wins and have been appointed by Sheards Accountancy and the Walker Singleton Group to help them both with marketing strategy, brand transformation and growth. The strategic marketing company was set up in 2009 by Laura Pegg who acts as an outsourced marketing director and delivers every aspect of marketing for her clients. We Are Circle were appointed by Sheards Accountancy after a change of directi

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April 6, 2022|Entrepreneurs

Law firm Gordons partner with Fund Her North

Law firm Gordons has been chosen by funding connector Fund Her North as its legal partner following a competitive selection process. Fund Her North is a group of more than 25 women in venture capital organisations who collectively have a combined investment power of £650m. The funding connector is believed to be the only organisation of its kind in the UK that brings together women in the investment industry in this way to support female founders. As exclusive legal partner, Gordons will prov

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March 30, 2022|Entrepreneurs

TikTok has transformed the life of a Bradford businesswoman

Abigayle Andre, 29, started sharing her motoring knowledge in the second Lockdown and has since accelerated to success, landing a deal with the UK’s largest leasing company after going viral on a popular social media platform. Abigayle said: “I have always had a love of cars and would read every motoring magazine and newspaper as a child. I started working for the Volkswagen Group in customer relations which sowed the seeds to where I am today.” Entrepreneur Abigayle quickly understood that wo

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March 29, 2022|Entrepreneurs

Leading voice for micro business to launch exclusive Club

Tina Boden, one of the leading voices for micro business in the UK, who co-founded the #MicroBizMatters movement with Tony Robinson OBE and spent 10 years working to make life in micro business better, is set to launch an exclusive online club for micro business owners. While working on how micro business owners can improve their wellbeing and the wellbeing of their businesses, become more resilient and thrive in a ‘post-covid’ environment, Tina came up with The Micro Business Mentor Club, an on

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March 28, 2022|Entrepreneurs

New ownership at Leeds language services specialist

Leeds-based language service provider Andiamo! has a new owner. The translation and interpreting business is now fully owned by managing director Miranda Sambidge, who has been with the business since 1996 when she joined as a project manager. The buyout from original owners Anne and Marc Woolmer aided by Azets, means that Miranda now has full control over the 33-year-old business, which translates material of all kinds into over 140 languages for a wide range of industries. Commenting Miranda

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March 24, 2022|Business

Much-loved Savvy Baker to launch first cafe in North Leeds

Leeds baking entrepreneur Savannah Roqaa built her online business the Savvy Baker almost overnight as lockdown commenced in 2020. When friends shared images of the brownie care packages she was dropping off to lift their spirits, she realised she’d stumbled upon a (very hungry) market of devoted foodie fans! She was inundated with messages across social media containing baking requests and was immediately turning out 30-40 boxes of brownies per week from her small Roundhay kitchen. Savannah’s

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March 9, 2022|Entrepreneurs

Message from female entrepreneurs around breaking the bias this International Women’s Day

This week, as part of International Women’s Day, six online female entrepreneurs from varying backgrounds across the UK are uniting to start conversations they feel are important to bring to the table, as part of their efforts to #breakthebias on diverse subject areas which affect the quality of women’s lives and female empowerment. The business owners, who met through their work to spread their mission messages, brought together by Yorkshire-based PR agency Chocolate PR, are all hugely passion

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