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Call for UK's entrepreneurial women

The search is on for the UK’s most inspiring female entrepreneurs, as the annual NatWest everywoman awards are launched this week at the House of Commons. The awards aim to recognise and reward the most successful women in UK business, those acting as role models for others wanting to go it alone.

The government recently acknowledged the important role that women play in the economy in its recent Enterprise Strategy, and also called for female entrepreneurs to act as mentors to other women. The categories in the awards are open to anyone, and are based on aspects of ancient Greek goddesses.

2007 also saw the introduction of two new awards - the Iris Award for use of technical innovation in business, and the first everywoman Ambassador’s Award, presented to model and business woman, Elle Macpherson, who was rated as one of the leading celebrity role models for women in business by everywoman’s recent research.

The Spirit of everywoman award is also presented to a woman who has changed the landscape for women in business, and was last year presented to Dame Stella Rimington, the first female Director General of MI5. The winner of the first Spirit of everywoman award in 2006 was Dame Mary Perkins, co-founder of Specsavers Opticians.

Applications for the awards are available at www.everywoman.com from 1 May until 29 August.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .