UK’s first ever Business Mum Week announced

This year sees the first Business Mum Week, a week of activities and meet ups across the UK. This whole week is dedicated to women who balance business with family life on a daily basis to ensure a better future for their families.

Business Mum Week will take place from Saturday the 3rd – 10th October. It is run by MumsClub, the online business club for mums, and supported by PR expert and author Antonia Chitty of Family Friendly Working.

The aims of the week are to:

• inspire more entrepreneurial mums to start a business from home,
• encourage business growth by providing business mums access to information and ideas,
• develop online and offline support through a national network of home-working Mumpreneurs.

Business Mum Week recognises the challenges such women face and the achievements they have already made by dedicating a corner of their busy family home to turn their business ideas into reality.

Activities are being planned across the UK including local meet-ups organised by current Mumpreneurs, a personal branding evening at Harvey Nicholls in Birmingham, workshops to provide information for starting family friendly businesses, and various other events to be announced. At all of these events, copies of ‘The Business Mums Journal’ will be freely available.

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The key feature of the Week will be the inaugural Mumpreneur Annual Conference which will officially launch the week of activities. At the event on Saturday 3rd October at the City Inn, Birmingham, attendees will hear from experts in various fields who will pass on valuable information that will help both start ups existing businesses to flourish. There will be opportunities to network face to face with other women and the day will close with the winners of the 2009 Mumpreneur Awards being announced.

In the lead-up to Business Mum Week, MumsClub is inviting all Mumpreneur businesses to enter the free Mumpreneur awards. Nomination forms are available online now.

MumsClub founder, Jane Hopkins, said, “This is the perfect time to launch this business mum week. We are in a recession and women with families are looking for options. With so many reports of redundancies and the future potential for job losses, it has never been a more important time for families to have options. Being self-employed is the perfect way to combine family life with generating a second income into the home. Women now have the freedom to get paid to do something they love. Great for household finances, great for self esteem, great for the work-life balance. Starting up from home is low cost, low risk, and from a personal point of view, is incredibly rewarding.”

Antonia Chitty, of Family Friendly Working and head of PR for Business Mum Week said, “this is a great initiative and I’m happy to support it in any way I can to ensure more women with children are aware of the family friendly working options out there. This is a great way to both highlight the work of mum owned businesses and support the growth of more.”