Below you will find the inspirational female entrepreneurs that have been nominated for Britain’s Top Real Role Model 2014. Each nominee needs at least 50 nominations to progress to the next stage of the competition, so please do not forget to nominate your favourite.
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Calypso Rose
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Calypso founded Clippykit in 2004, a bag that has pockets that can be filled with photos and memento’s. Clippykit launched selling in London’s famous Portobello Road market and is now a huge success, the range has been sold in Harrods, Selfridges and other iconic retail stores. Outline your business and entrepreneurial skills, including your relative [...]
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Susie Stone
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Susie started her bespoke womenswear and bridal business 4 years ago, with a focus on quality her bridal service has been featured in The Stylist, Time Out and Brides Magazine. Susie is also hugely passionate about creating sustainable fashion. Outline your business and entrepreneurial skills, including your relative achievements to date in running a business [...]
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Emma & Poppy
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Emma & Poppy’s ‘House of Trendella’ is a joint fashion venture by the 2 graduating Birmingham Uni Students, They want to design a collection of high fashion pieces with a high street twist at affordable prices for this seasons collection, which is where their potential winnings would be spent. Outline your business and entrepreneurial skills, [...]
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Vicky Kelly
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Keen to pass on her business knowledge and experiences to others, Vicky offers business coaching tips and ideas to organisations, drawing on her business endeavours of the past. That final bit of money the grant would offer, is the difference between a soft launch, and a BIG BANG! Outline your business and entrepreneurial skills, including [...]
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Lauren Malone
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Events organiser and self-motivated Merseyside Entrepreneur Lauren, wants to inspire other women out there to pursue their dreams and push for what they want. The £5,00 grant would allow her to carry more stock and expand the business with a much needed financial injection! Outline your business and entrepreneurial skills, including your relative achievements to [...]
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Rebecca Fredericks
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‘The Holistic Success Expert’, she combines her business, fitness and nutrition experience with NLP, neuroscience, positive and behavioral psychology to give business, relationship and life advice that empowers women Outline your business and entrepreneurial skills, including your relative achievements to date in running a business: Rebecca is a Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, Coach and Psychology [...]
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Hiwot Wolde-Senbet
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Hiwot came to Britain and has invested time, money and effort into charities, voluntary organisations, and foreign aid projects in the UK and Africa. Self-proclaimed Tech-Expert and all round hard worker, Hiwot has never let someone saying ‘no’ get in the way. Outline your business and entrepreneurial skills, including your relative achievements to date in [...]
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Bridget Boateng
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Digital enthusiast Bridget is a self taught web marketeer that came up with her crowd-funding web business ‘Pass Peace On’. Keen to pass on her expertise and helping hand to others who are interested in music and the web, she would use her grant to further develop the online presence of the business. Outline your [...]
- Kirsty Berridge - ‘Budding’ Entrepreneur and Florist Kirsty Berridge, is an award winner at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Specialising with Wedding flowers, she would use the winning money to renovate her barn conversion premesis. Outline your business and entrepreneurial skills, including your relative achievements to date in running a business: Having been a florist now for [...]
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Shavanna Nelson
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Volunteering and Charity work, has lead to multiple business opportunities and awards for Shavanna in the East Midlands. During times of personal hardship, she took it upon herself to better educate and qualify, and now wishes to inspire other mother to follow in her footsteps. Outline your business and entrepreneurial skills, including your relative achievements [...]
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Siobhan Noble
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The ‘Theatrical Arts’ are in Siobhan’s blood; from vintage jewellery to the dizzying heights of running her own theatre! The £5,000 winnings would go to new signage and further print marketing to get more people in and boost sales further. Outline your business and entrepreneurial skills, including your relative achievements to date in running a [...]
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Joanne Keeling
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Near tragedy, led to a bright young girl saving her mothers life, and sparking the idea for a new business! Joanne was saved by her young daughter acting out a role play call to 999, whilst her mother was having a severe allergic reaction. Now Joanne creates educational safety learning books for kids. Outline your [...]
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Charleh Dickinson
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There’s nothing like a nice Healthy Profit – and it doesn’t come any healthier than this. Charleh focus’s on producing Paleo, Vegan, Diabetic and Celiac guided meals in an ethical and profitable method. Now stocked in food stores in the South Yorkshire (as well as post nationwide). Outline your business and entrepreneurial skills, including your [...]
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Melissa Smith
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When life gives you lemons….. well almost. Melissa turned a bad situation into a money making opportunity. Now with an award winning business, Melissa had to endure tough times and still provide for her 3 young children in the process. If she wins this award, she plans to spend her winnings on a new van. [...]
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Laura Whiting
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Laura’s love for fashion began 10 years ago; she was intrigued by the influence that technology and changing consumer attitudes had on the retail industry. Her new brand, ‘Peek Boutique’ began as a concept of pop-up shops, and has since transformed into a successful retail venture. She would use the £5,000 grant to help develop [...]