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A reminder that free seminars, and excellent services, are provided at the City Business Library Guildhall.
Another reminder for finance available to start-ups from 24 to 30.
www.number10.gov.uk
£30m boost as start-up loans for young entrepreneurs scheme expanded.
Networking is one of the best ways to develop your business. When done properly, it is about making and maintaining relationships. It's about personal recommendations. Networking can happen anywhere, so always carry your business card.
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Another offer from the Government, who has spent £1.9 million to train and promote Mentors for Small Business
Businesses across the UK can now access one-to-one support through a national network of 27,000 mentors. This includes 15,000 volunteer mentors who have joined the 12,000 mentors already available through 115 mentoring organizations on
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The return of the SbS Rush Hour concerts.
Southbank for 2013 is up and running, and 3 concerts already. Don't forget; free music and a glass of wine at St. John's Waterloo, see their concert diary here.
SBS Free Rush Hour Concert Diary
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Welcome all
Please hit return and add the woman of your choice for International Womens Day.
Dead or alive; fact or fiction. Both Scherezade and Morgiana showed how cunning can achieve the desired end. Which categories would you nominate for role models? Brave women; Heads of state; Women in the city? Women to look up to, women for young women to have as role models? Choose 3 women and email to this address info@wwom.org, or tweet to #WomenOfAchievement.
Currently there are 17 women Heads of State and Ellen Sirleaf Johnson was the first woman Head of State in Africa. She was also recognized in sharing the Noble Peace Prize; The Iron lady of Liberia.
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1. Mentors and Role Models
Do you recognize this woman?
Promoting mentors through her foundation.
"Back in the Seventies, when I was looking for my first job in the legal profession, it was hard to be taken seriously as a woman lawyer. It was commonplace for female candidates to be told 'We don't take women' or 'We've already got a woman', comments that would be unthinkable - and unlawful - today. However, I was fortunate to get support from a senior barrister who agreed to accept me as an apprentice, and became my mentor.
We can help each other up the ladder. Women often complain about a lack of opportunities and not being promoted - and there's justice in many of those complaints - but we all need to help those lower down the ladder too. If we want more talented women rising through the ranks, if we want to create a pipeline of talent to executive and board-level positions, that's got to be part of the solution.
As former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said: 'There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.' So let's get a bit more collaborative and start giving each other a helping hand."
To read the full article in the Mail on Sunday: http://tinyurl.com/apmxo9h
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For more information on the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women's Mentoring programme, visit www.cherieblairfoundation.org
"....as the Prime Minister has said, "Where the potential and perspective of women are locked out of the decisions that shape a society, that society remains stunted and underachieving".
Encouragement should be taken from another quote from David Cameron. He was talking about sub-Saharan African countries, but might it not apply here? Quote in City AM by Justine Greening MP:
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2. International Womens Day
Racing ahead into a new year, and International Women's Day is just round the corner. In particular, Jude Kelly and her team at the Southbank providing the WOW on weekend of 9th to 11th March.
Eve Ensler is again urging women to rise in protest of violence against women across the world; at much at home as abroad.
 Generally this year, IWD seems to be more high profile, and Malala speaking from her hospital bed, asking for the right of all children to education. She got a titanium plate in her skull, and a transplant to restore her hearing, but her indomitable spirit is an example to all.
Is being a woman in a war zone more risky than being a soldier?
Another furore about women going into front line troops, which is already agreed in America, but being disputed here. However, some can remember the incredibly brave spies and resistance fighters from previous wars, especially Nancy Wake. The film of Charlotte Grey was based on her life story. She thought nothing of killing a German if necessary, and chatting them up to pass enemy lines.
Women in the front line? Not strong enough, big enough, or cunning enough?
Tony (Antonella) Lothian, founded the Women of the Year lunch along with Lady Georgina Coleridge, and Odette Hallowes. Odette Hallowes; the British spy whom the Nazis caught and tortured in France. The Gestapo eventually gave up and sent her to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Two excellent women for starters but, in the UK alone, let's look at brave women.
 Marie Colvin had been a woman at the front line of war for some time. Having lost an eye whilst reporting, she recently lost her life when she was directly targeted in Syria. Alex Crawford received her OBE, presented by the Queen, for services in war reporting. The woman helicopter pilot, Michelle Goodman, was the first woman to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, for flying in under fire to rescue a wounded comrade who would've died within 15 minutes.
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3. Mary Robinson with other Elders
Twitter: #WomenOfAchievement
To choose a role model close to home, Mary Robinson, late President of Ireland, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights until 2002, recently published her memoir, Everybody Matters.
Along with Graca Machel (Mrs. Mandela) and others, she works for a group called theElders, who travel the world trying to mediate and report on conflict.
Effectively unnoticed, Mary Robinson visited the UK at least 3 times last year, but very little was reported in the press. At the Sage Gateshead, she was trying to put across the message that more women leaders are needed in the world, and that African women are driving change.
Continue the story: The world needs more women leaders.
On 23 January, Mary Robinson took part in the 21st biannual meeting of the Gender is My Agenda Campaign (GIMAC) at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa. Covering topics such as the role of women in peace processes and violence against women in post-conflict situations, the meeting brought together more than a hundred African women.
Africa needs more women leaders http://tinyurl.com/bbbgc4a
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Go well in the world, I hope that you find something inspirational in the above, or in your life around you. There are always possibilities. Remember you create your own reality, so choose a good one.
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