The mum entrepreneurs (mumpreneurs) UK tour will be stopping off at the Odeon, Guildford May 16, 10.00am – 4.00pm and Kingston Market Square, May 10.00am – 4.00pm. The tour aims to help mums turn their business ideas in to a money-making reality.
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NatWest is supporting mum entrepreneurs, (mumpreneurs) by lending its iconic purple branded 1966 Routemaster buses to the Mumpreneurs Networking Club as they do whistle stop tour of 4 UK locations in May: Guildford, Brighton, Kingston and Portsmouth.
The mumpreneur economy, (businesses run by mothers with children under 18), generated £7.2bn for the UK economy in 2014, supporting over 200,000 jobs. That figure is predicted to rise to £9.5bn by 2025, according to research carried out by EBay. The Mumpreneurs Networking Club has had over 17,000 visits to their events, and it is their mission to connect, inspire and engage mumpreneurs nationwide, thus making their contribution to the UK mumpreneur economy.
The goal for the bus tour is to inspire more mothers to start their own businesses, to offer support and advice to those running businesses, and to showcase some excellent examples of successful mumpreneurs who will inspire the ‘bus tour ticket holders.'
Sara Guiel says: "Being able to run a business alongside bringing up children could be deemed as a perfect job. So often the statistics are reeled out for the low numbers of women in the boardrooms - but how frequently is it considered that those women absent at the top of the corporate ladder are not in fact running their very own successful businesses from the kitchen table?"
Case studies show that most mumpreneurs had successful careers before having children but decided to not go back to the rat race (with the gender pay gap at 14% more for men according to the Office of National Statistics) but to start up a business using their skills, drive and tenacity, and the proof is in the pudding with the figures that mumpreneurs contributed £7.2bn of the UK economy in 2014.
Each tour starts from 10am to 4pm and has a packed agenda covering all aspects of running a business with advisors (who are mumpreneurs) giving free sessions and workshops covering everything from marketing, accountancy, PR, Vlogging, branding, and networking to social media, personal styling and business life coaching. You can see the full time table here:
mumpreneursnetworkingclub.co.uk/articles/201603092
Visitors can drop in informally at a time which suits and they are guaranteed to walk away more inspired to put more into the UK economy.
You can find out more about the tour on the The Mumpreneur Networking Club website here
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