Entrepreneurs Baroness Karren Brady CBE offers free webinar to empower UK small business owners Baroness Karren Brady CBE, one of the world's most respected business icons, will host a free webinar on Thursday 7th September 2023 at 11.00am for small business owners across the country. The event, in collaboration with Simply Business, one of the UK's leading providers of By The Editor • 1 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Farmhouse Leeds reveal opening date with free brunch for everyone Farmhouse an independently owned restaurant specialising in breakfast, brunch, and all-day dishes, will open its second site in Leeds next month. One of North Yorkshire’s most popular brunch spots is heading to Lands Lane, Leeds on Monday 11th September. To celebrate, Farmhouse are giving you the chance to try By The Editor • 1 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Smart Works Leeds launches its inaugural ‘Fashion as a Force for Good’ Ball Smart Works Leeds, the charity that dresses and coaches unemployed women for job and interview success, has announced a major fund-raising ball and awards ceremony this November. The inaugural Fashion as a Force for Good Ball will take place at The Marriott Leeds on November 15, 2023. It promises to By The Editor • 2 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle Victoria Leeds presents the first Leeds Fashion Weekender Victoria Leeds will play host to its first big Leeds Fashion Weekender 8th, 9th and 10th September. The Leeds Fashion Weekender will be hosted by Sunday Times best-selling author and renowned style influencer, Kat Farmer, featuring catwalk shows, expert styling advice, new season collections, event exclusives, and more. Victoria Leeds By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Inspirational female entrepreneur moves into Sunny Bank Mills Michelle Hands, the founder of the inspirational female content and clothing company She Who Dares Wins, has moved into a state-of-the-art studio at Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley, near Leeds. Michelle has taken space in the beautifully refurbished 10 Old Combing building in the heart of the mill complex. Michelle, By The Editor • 3 min read
Win a pair of diamond earrings from Phillip Stoner Jewellers As part of the Yorkshire Businesswoman Awards, celebrating International Women's Day 2024, at the Marriott Hotel Leeds on 8 March, Yorkshire Businesswoman partners Phillip Stoner Jewellers have donated a pair of georgous diamond earrings for our raffle. Rather than raffle just on the Awards night, we wanted to By The Editor • 1 min read
Entrepreneurs Thriving Leeds marketing agency announced as finalist for prestigious business award Leeds-based marketing agency, Youbee Media, which specialises in supporting businesses across a whole host of digital and traditional marketing activities has announced they are finalists in this year's Enterprise Vision Awards - the UK’s largest awarding body that is dedicated solely to celebrating inspirational women in business. By The Editor • 2 min read
Business A new all-female event discuss women’s sports and tech An exciting new networking event - featuring an all-female panel discussing women in sports and the leveraging of digital tech for industry growth - is to be held on September 19th at The Wardrobe in Leeds. This unique and free event has been arranged by Leeds-based Digital Sport North - By The Editor • 2 min read
Business Only 5% of funding rounds in Leeds go to female-led businesses Leading scale-up data consultancy, The Data City has partnered with Panintelligence, a provider of embedded SaaS analytics, to produce and implement an Inclusive Growth Dashboard on behalf of the government’s women-led high-growth enterprise taskforce. Data insight from the Inclusive Growth Dashboard indicates that in Leeds, women-led businesses (where more By The Editor • 3 min read
Entrepreneurs FL Leadership Summit & Awards are now open Are there any women in your business who deserve recognition? This is an opportunity to reward the women in your business, promote corporate gender equality and generate positive employer brand exposure. Nominations and applications will close on the 8th of September, 2023. With this year's summit theme being By The Editor • 1 min read
Business The Handmade Mattress company ceases to trade with items up for sale Milnsbridge, Huddersfield-based The Handmade Mattress Company has closed its doors after eight successful years of trading as a specialist infant mattress manufacturer. Following a period of rapid expansion, in large thanks to the pandemic ‘baby boom’, the company has seen a decrease in orders which has resulted in the closure By The Editor • 1 min read
Fashion and Lifestyle New BBC drama Hot Flush from Bafta-winner Sally Wainwright BAFTA-winning writer Sally Wainwright returns to the BBC following the phenomenal success of Happy Valley with Hot Flush, a new drama for BBC One and BBC iPlayer announced today by Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Hot Flush centres on the lives of five women By The Editor • 2 min read
