People's Stories
Anne Duncan
Anne Duncan runs Yellowfin Ltd, a company based in Southampton pioneering a revolutionary propulsion system for motorboats. She has run other successful businesses in the past and is passionate about helping start-up businesses and young entrepreneurs. Read more
Anya Ledwith
Anya is as much at home on site in a depot, as she is at the board room table. She runs ESHCon, an environmental management consultancy, which advises businesses on how to improve energy efficiency, reduce waste and increase profits. Read more
Chris Parker
Chris Parker is the funeral director of a family run business in Tonbridge, Kent. She set up Abbey Funeral Services with her husband Jim in 1983 and her daughter Jo joined the business in 1994. Read more
Janet Shelley
Thanks to Janet Shelley, you'll be seeing a lot more women on building sites. Janet is the founder of Women Builders, Britain's first female building company. Based in Milton Keynes, the company has trained hundreds of women, and employs predominately female trades people providing a broad range of general building maintenance and repair expertise. Read more
Penny Bailey
Penny Bailey set up her company Bailey Solutions four years ago. It specialises in supplying library software and information systems for professional firms, government departments, charities and colleges. Read more
Rani Bilkhu
Two years ago, Rani Bilkhu was a mother of four living on benefits. Now running a successful enterprise, she is proving you don’t need top-level qualifications to create.a business, what you do need is determination and a product or service that you understand. Read more
Sonia Blizzard
Sonia Blizzard runs Beaming Ltd, a successful small business with a quarter of a million turnover and employing 5 people. Nothing very special about that, you might think. However, it is also testimony to the dedication and single-mindedness of one woman – Sonia Blizzard – an IT professional by background and mother of a child with special needs. Read more
Violaine Roberts
Violaine Roberts runs the Flying Fortress, a family entertainment centre based on an old airfield near Arundel in West Sussex. It opened in March 2005 and has already become one of the leading visitor attractions in the South East. Read more
