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Who wants to be a female entrepreneur?

What needs to happen so more women can turn great ideas into successful businesses?

Woman’s Hour is joined by ±«Óătv Radio Sheffield in Doncaster for a special live panel show to find out how to be a successful female entrepreneur.

Woman’s Hour presenter Anita Rani and ±«Óătv Sheffield presenter Paulette Edwards talk to local business women and experts about how to start and sustain a thriving business. They investigate how the stubborn barriers of funding, childcare and confidence are still holding women back and explore the interventions needed to bring about lasting change, so more women and girls can choose to turn their great ideas into successful and lasting businesses.

On the panel are: Amy Furniss, a nurse from Doncaster who turned entrepreneur with a dried flowers business; Akeela Mohammed, who sold her two nurseries in Doncaster and now wants to open a Desi café; Rachel Stockey, Head of Entrepreneurial Skills at the Entrepreneurship Institute, who empowers women to make waves by practising her Seven Skills of Entrepreneurial Mindset; Christine Hockley, Managing Director of Funds at the British Business Bank in Sheffield, who is one of a small number of the country’s female investors; and Emma Jones, who in 2005 set up Enterprise Nation, which aims to provide expert advice and support for small businesses.

Presenters: Anita Rani and Paulette Edwards
Producer: Rebecca Myatt
SM: Phil Booth

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54 minutes

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  • Fri 22 Mar 2024 10:00

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