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July 13, 2020|Entrepreneurs

Yorkshire film collaboration leads to award-winning drama

A Sheffield-born producer and distributor has teamed up with a writer and director from Harrogate to bring an award-winning film, ‘Provenance,’ to the UK where it will be released on Monday 13th July on Curzon Home Cinema. Amanda Atkins, who grew up in Sheffield, set up Afinia Film, following a personal health scare, in order to reach audiences and help her promote, make and distribute health-related documentaries. Her first such distribution ‘The Biggest Little Farm’ won ‘Best Original Score’

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July 13, 2020|Entrepreneurs

Chancellor, make room at the table for women entrepreneurs

By Simone Roache, Northern Power Women Women entrepreneurs, and particularly women of black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, are just what our economy needs – but women need to be invested in, involved, given a voice and given the right support. There has always been a much-discussed gender and ethnic imbalance for start-ups and entrepreneurs when it comes to accessing financial support. But there’s huge untapped potential there. Potential that could transform the UK economy. Don’t wast

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July 10, 2020|Entrepreneurs

Yorkshire tech entrepreneur launches platform to save kid’s birthdays

Kidcrowd, a new platform that streamlines gift giving for children, is helping struggling parents to still make their children’s birthdays as special as possible. An estimated 3 million children in the UK* have celebrated their birthdays under lockdown so far and with many more millions more celebrating in the coming months under social distancing. As social distancing looks to be in place for the foreseeable, family and friends that normally give a birthday gift to a child this time of year fi

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July 1, 2020|Entrepreneurs

GB Sports star helping students achieve their goals after calling on Launchpad support

A former professional sportswoman who launched a unique tutoring business designed to help students gain a better understanding of the appliance of science is expanding her business after pioneering a new online support service, which she developed during lockdown. Ex-Doncaster Belles star and a former winner of the highly coveted US National Championships in soccer, Marta Bakowska-Mathews founded Doncaster-based SmartaTutoring in 2018 when she was just 24 years old. Since that time she has hel

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June 30, 2020|Entrepreneurs

New psychological support service launched for business

A new psychological health care service has launched for organisations to enhance their mental health support systems in the workplace. Founded by award winning Leeds businesswoman, psychologist and psychotherapist, Charlotte Armitage, Outsourced Psych is a flexible, alternative provision for businesses to ensure their employees have access to qualified and trained mental health professionals. Charlotte says: “Mental health and mental wellbeing in the workplace are essential considerations for

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June 5, 2020|Entrepreneurs

Harrogate barre instructor supports multi-tasking women

A fitness instructor from Harrogate is doing her bit to help stressed out women from across the region and beyond, unwind and reconnect with their minds and bodies whilst in lockdown. Elishea Boswell, a 32 year old entrepreneur who usually runs her business, Barre and Body out of the Barre and Body studio on Cheltenham Mount in Harrogate and Studio Sixteen in North Leeds has responded to lockdown by expanding her services after 100% of her income disappeared overnight. She is now teaching her l

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June 2, 2020|Entrepreneurs

Yorkshire Businesswoman meets author Milly Johnson

Milly Johnson is a Yorkshire born and bred romantic comedy novelist, scriptwriter, poet, newspaper columnist, professional joke writer and after dinner speaker, the latter is where Yorkshire Businesswoman editor Gill Laidler first came across Milly. “Milly was speaking at the Yorkshire Society Awards in March, just before lockdown started,” said Gill “and I thought she was one of the best after dinner speakers I had heard, interesting, professional and funny. I decided I wanted to meet her. Luc

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May 29, 2020|Entrepreneurs

Scheme helps Yorkshire's female entrepreneurs

A Rotherham entrepreneur behind an inclusive clothing brand is one of the 129 women in the North who has benefited from NatWest’s Back Her Business crowdfunding platform. Founder of e-commerce business, championing people with disabilities, Busy Life, Dr Joanna Baker-Rogers (pictured) has used Back Her Business to secure £1,581 of funding, including £750 from NatWest. Back Her Business supports female entrepreneurs by helping and encouraging more women to start and fund their own businesses in

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May 26, 2020|Entrepreneurs

Bringing the world into your home

York based entrepreneur Leanne Pollard has demonstrated that creative talent, hard work and passion can turn a dream into reality. Our team member Mandy was intrigued by her business journey after visiting her "Hattie Lloyd Home" website which tells the story of how Leanne has turned her travels and memories into an interiors business. With references to “Hattie Lloyd moments” which inspire Leanne to create a new design for her upmarket and incredible wallpaper range and her slogan “Wanderlus

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May 23, 2020|Entrepreneurs

Riding the coronavirus wave

Entrepreneur Claire Young was made famous by her role as the highly driven runner up of series four of ‘The Apprentice’ where she was dubbed a ‘Rottweiler’ by Lord Sugar for her tenacious approach in the boardroom and drive not to quit. She beat 40,000 candidates to reach the final and this experience inspired Claire to set up ‘School Speakers’ - the UK’s No 1 speaking agency working alongside schools, colleges and universities across the world to provide talks to students and staff. She also wo

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May 20, 2020|Entrepreneurs

A new financial wellbeing initiative launched for the women of Yorkshire

She Can Prosper - Helping women become the masters of their financial futures. A new female focussed initiative has been launched in Yorkshire. She Can Prosper is the brainchild of Diane Watson whose 27 years of financial planning experience has inspired her to build an enterprise that aims to help women become more financially aware and have greater control over their personal finances. Throughout her years working closely with clients to create their financial future, Watson noticed and unco

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May 20, 2020|Entrepreneurs

East Yorkshire support group opens celebrates first anniversary and charitable status

Despite the uncertainties surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, the founder of Market Weighton based support group, Talking about Loss has reason to be optimistic as the group approaches its first anniversary and celebrates achieving charitable status. Following the death of her father, Christopher Munby, Jacqui Gunn was inspired to use the legacy that he left her to set up a support group for people to talk freely about loss and hosted Talking about Loss's first meeting in June last year at Bisho

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