Sisters are doing it for each other: Women supporting women in business
Everyone entering the exciting but sometimes uncertain world of business could use a bit of advice from an old hand. And according to a networking organisation that supports the growth of female business ownership, women certainly want it.
Women value advice
"Women value pre-enterprise support and ongoing personal training," said Alice Kent from Prowess. "They also welcome mentoring relationships and the chance to exchange ideas with someone with previous experience of setting up in business."
So, support seems to be a key factor in encouraging The Rich Lady to act on those entrepreneurial brainwaves! But whether her worries concern the preliminary stages of starting up her own business, or simply the maintenance of a successful enterprise, where can she turn?
Networks and awards: The Rich Lady is among friends
There are hundreds of organisations in the UK and across the international spectrum, dedicated to encouraging female entrepreneurship, as well as awards that recognise significant achievements for women in business.
The recent NatWest Everywoman Awards ceremony was attended by 300 women of achievement from all industries, including the first female director of MI5 Dame Stella Rimington and model and businesswoman Elle Macpherson.
Founded in 2003, the awards celebrate annually the UK's most inspiring female business owners, and this year it gave the founder of a skills and employment training company for workers made unemployed by the decline in the steel industry, Emma Harrison, the prestigious award.
