Mumpreneur UK

While Ella Announcements is what I like to call my "full time business", it's not the only business baby I have in my life.

Back in 2009 I met Laura Rigney, who, within a month of meeting, became my business partner. Together we organised the very first national conference for mums in business... The Mumpreneur Conference 2009. The event, organised in just a few short weeks, took place in October 2009 and was a huge success. Within days, we were organising our 2010 event (The Mumpreneur Conference 2010, unsurprisingly). It is undeniable that Laura and I make a cracking team. I'd say I'm the creativity in the partnership, and she's the gob! (I mean this in the best possible way, Laura!)

At our 2010 event, we launched Mumpreneur UK, a website aimed at supporting and celebrating mums who run their own business. We're both "mumpreneurs" and we both know how difficult it can be at times, how exciting it is a lot of the time, how important it is to have the relevant support available AND how relieving it is to have others to share it with. Mumpreneur UK hopes to meet the needs of all mums in business who are starting up, or running, a business and we hope to be a voice for business mums in the UK through a number of initiatives and events.

If you're a mum running a business, or interested in the possibility of starting a business, visit the website www.mumpreneuruk.com (and you might even be interested in entering our event, Mumpreneur Idol... more details to follow in January!)

Pictured above: Me (the whale on the left), and Laura!