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Prowess support for women in business
Prowess
The UK association of organisations and individuals
who support women to start and grow businesses

Prowess in the press

A selection of recent press articles referring to Prowess:

Woman's Hour, Radio 4 - Is post-pregnancy a good time to start up in business, 14 April 2008

Women bosses are more likely to discriminate against mothers says Sir Alan Sugar (page link)

Newstart: In today's organisations a woman's place is on the board 15 Feb 2008

Accountancy Age - The Entrepreneurial Mind 14 Feb 2008 (Pdf)

The Times: Women closing the enterprise gap, 14 Nov 2007 (page link)

The Financial Times: Women's businesses need better support 14 Nov 2007 (page link)

Daily Express: Women Win 11 July 2007 (49KB Jpeg)

The Guardian: Taking care of business 23 March 2007 (web link)

Regeneration and Renewal: DTI to examine funding for businesswomen 16 Feb 2007 (1.37 MB Jpeg)

El Economista 'Embajadoras' del espiritu emprendedor britanico Feb 15 2007' (Spanish) (146kb Pdf)

Newstart: Business women call for sustained enterprise support (1MB Pdf)

Regeneration and Renewal: Women face enterprise 'race gap' (1MB Pdf)

Times online: Women's Enterprise key to competing with US 16 November 2006 (web link)

Telegraph online: What is Government doing for women in business? 15 November 2006 (web link)

The Financial Times: Rural women twice as likely to form start-ups 15 November 2006 (974KB Pdf)

Jackie Brierton believes its time for a debate on the Government's enterprise for all agenda 20 October 2006 (457KB)

Social enterprises want minister - Regeneration and Renewal 13 October 2006 (432 Kb)

Business advisers say support fails to reach needest - Newstart 13 October 2006 (336 Kb)

Level that playing field - The Guardian 11 October 2006 (Jpeg 89.5Kb)

The Mail on Sunday - Business Briefing 12 March 2006 (Jpeg 625 Kb)

Regeneration and Renewal - DTI blammed for business aid crisis 3 Feb 2006 (Pdf 230 Kb)

Regeneration and Renewal - Minority firms missing out on critial support, 3 Feb 2006 (Pdf 199 Kb)

Financial Times - Prowess listens to male views, 13 Jan 2006 (Jpeg, 534Kb)

The Daily Telegraph - Talk Back@ Telegraph Business Club, 22 November 2005 (Jpeg, 226Kb)

Financial Times - Some hard facts on women owning their own business, 18 November 2005 (Jpeg, 254Kb)

The Times - Economy looses from failure to back women September 29 2005 (Pdf, 150Kb)

New Start - Regions urged to develop better strategy on female entrepreneurs July 01 2005 (pdf, 37.6 Kb)

Regeneration and Renewal - Call for female-focused business support, July 01 2005 (pdf, 78.3 Kb)

New Start, Career Ladder - Jayne Graham, Prowess Associate Director (North), June 2005 (pdf, 85.0 kb)

New Start, Women's business lobby makes case for benefits shift, April 29 2005 (pdf, 1.02mb)

Women set to shift the balance of power in business, The Times, April 28 2005 (pdf, 196kb)

Letter to The Independent, Erika Watson, Executive Director of Prowess, How women are still barred from wealth, April 26 2005 (Word, 5.53kb)

Letter to the Guardian, Erika Watson, Executive Director of Prowess, The Guardian, March 12 2005 (pdf, 62kb)

Director, ‘What’s the buzz?’ Women’s Enterprise, March 2005 (pdf, 213kb)

Small Business Issues, The Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, ‘Women Show Entrepreneurial Prowess’, Volume 13, Issue 1, winter 2005 (pdf, 100kb)

New Start, ‘Entrepreneurial zest spreads across the UK’s most deprived areas’, Vol 7, No.278, Jan 2005 (pdf, 44kb)

New Start, ‘How one small step can be a giant leap’, November 2004 (pdf, 146kb)

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