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MumsClub News
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October 2010
- Business Mum Week 2010
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August 2010
Launching The National Business & Baby Show
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June 2010
- The Business Mum’s Journal now in Cambridge & Borehamwood!
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May 21st - 23rd 2010
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Exhibiting at the NEC Baby Show see photos here
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March 2010
- Launching The Business Mum’s Journal - Dorset edition
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 It’s the 4th issue and we’re expanding!
The Journal is now available as a business opportunity, the first edition is in Dorset with our Duncan Bannatyne interview.
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January 2010
- Launching the build up to BMW10
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January 2010
- MumsClub face-2-face regional clubs launching “Mum’s Business Club”
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October 2009
- Launching the first National Business Mum Week
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October 2009
- Switched on Awards
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Mumsclub was a finalist in this prestigious awards ceremony.
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October 2009
- Personal Branding event at Harvey Nichols, Birmingham
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September 2009
- Remote Employment awards
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 mumsclub wins another award.
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May 2009
- Exhibiting Business Opportunities at the NEC Baby Show
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 Another great Baby show weekend at the NEC, Birmingham!
We gave out free copies of the latest Journal plus the new business opportunity guide. For your free copy, click here
Interesting to see how many more women are looking for answers and options regarding their futures.
Thanks to the mums who gave up their time to come along for one or two days over the weekend. more
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April 2009
- Business Mum’s Journal available in Mothercare
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 Mothercare, in recognition of the UK’s network of Mum’s who manage to juggle business with family life, will be supporting the next issue of The Business Mum’s Journal by making copies available at the point of sale throughout ten selected stores; covering the Midlands.
If one of the selected stores isn’t local to you, simply check our distribution page for other ways to pick up your copy. www.businessmumsmagazine.co.uk
The launch:
Saturday 11th April 2009 - Mothercare Corporation Street, Birmingham
more...
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March 2009
- Prima Baby supporting MumsClub PR Competition
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MumsClub has teamed up with leading baby magazine, PrimaBaby, and PR company, ACPR,to offer mums in business the chance to take part in this unique PR competition.
Along with its business boosting side effects, this is a competition, and there are prizes for the overall winner including editorial coverage in Prima Baby magazine. more >>
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February 2009
- Winner of a WOW ‘Women On Their Way’ Award
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Jane Hopkins, the woman behind Mumsclub,the thriving online business community for mums, has been honoured for her hard work by receiving a Women On their Way (WOW) award. The all new WOW awards are the brainchild of Jo Cameron, best known for her appearance on BBC’s The Apprentice, and were introduced to recognise women leaders from across the Midlands. Of the nine awards given, Jane was presented The Online Business Award sponsored by finditinsandwell.co.uk. Jane says:
“I am delighted to receive this award. It is fantastic that women in the Midlands are being recognised for their hard work and potential. The success of Mumsclub is testimony that there are many driven women out there today who, despite the economic downturn, are more than ever determined to succeed in business.” 
Since its inception in 2007, Mumsclub.co.uk now has over 700 members, all mums in business who use the site as a virtual office to network with other like-minded mums and to find useful business advice and ideas. Jane admittedly has ambitious plans for Mumsclub this year, including initiatives designed to motivate mums to embrace business opportunities available to them...
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January 2009
- Nominated and shortlisted for the ‘Women On Their Way’ Awards
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NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED TO FIND MIDLANDS’ FINEST WOMEN LEADERS
Some of the Midlands’ most inspiring women have have been shortlisted for the inaugural Women On Their Way Awards, scheduled to take place this month.
Hailing from both the West and East of the region, the 27-strong group has been broken down into nine categories for the awards, which will take place in Birmingham on Friday, 27 February. The aim is to showcase the very best female leaders of the future from across the Midlands.
The awards are the brainchild of Jo Cameron, best known for her appearance on BBC’s The Apprentice, and Lisa Ibbotson.
Lisa said: “We had a great response to this year’s awards, proving that there are some fantastic women out there. The judges had a difficult challenge to whittle them down to 27 candidates in nine categories, and an even harder task to pick the eventual winners.
Jane Hopkins from Mumsclub.co.uk based in Warwickshire has been shortlisted for the The Online Business Award Sponsored by Finditinsandwell.co.uk
The winners will be chosen at The Women on Their Way Awards’ which will take place at the Botanical Gardens in February.
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November 2008
- UPS Local Business of the year 2008 chosen by Theo Paphitis
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 Mumpreneur awarded local business of the year 2008 by Dragon!
Jane Hopkins, 34 from Warwickshire has convinced no other than Theo Paphitis of Dragon’s Den to award her business the UPS Local business of the year 2008.
Jane set up MumsClub in 2007 after searching the internet for inspiration when she needed a new direction. Realising there were little resources aimed at mums running businesses around the kids, she set about retraining as a web designer to make it possible and fill the gap.
Today she runs a successful web based business which helps mothers who are either working from home, or have aspirations to. Through online networking, the current membership base of over 600 mums provide each other with essential business and family support.
MumsClub has been to baby shows all over the UK, has published ‘The Business Mum’s Journal’ to showcase many of their members, some of whom have achieved their own successes by making it onto Dragons’ Den and winning their own business awards.
The UPS local business of the year award has come at a great time, Jane says “I’m thrilled to have been chosen by Theo, and with the prize, we can reach even more mums across the Midlands, considering the looming credit crunch it’s a time when we all need even more support to keep all businesses flourishing”.
 The prize provided by UPS, the worldwide shipping experts, is a 4 week radio advertising campaign on BRMB which can be heard here. The 30 second advert is based on Jane’s own life, describing what she does from her son’s point of view. Jane says “I felt the best way to grab the attention of other mums like me is to give a snippet of my life and hope that mums listening relate to it.”
The entries are closed and been sifted through by Theo Paphitis's expert eye.
Judge Theo
Judging the best business was none other than BBC Dragon’s Den star, Theo Paphitis. As a successful businessman, transforming companies like Ryman the Stationer, Contessa and La Senza into undisputed successes, Theo’s unrivalled instinct for sniffing out profitable businesses made him the perfect choice.
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October 2008
- ITV’s This Morning Mumpreneur competition
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  Runners up Sharon Ward, Lynn Oakes and Pamela Lowes are all seen here with Claire O’Conner who walked away with the first prize.
All MumsClubbers, they managed to beat thousands of other mums who entered the competition.
They all had to appear live on national TV, on numerous occasions to pitch their ideas to the panel of judges which included entrepreneurs Tim Cambell, who won the first Apprentice; Emma Harrison, Chairman and founder of A4e; and Judy Naake, who brought St Tropez to the UK...
...but only our mums were good enough for the finals and to win!
We’re all very proud of them and wish them all the very best! Read more here
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October 2008
- Mumpreneur directory launched
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 Here come the mums! UK ‘Mumpreneurs’ join forces to beat the credit crunch.
Mums who run their own business contributed £4.4billion to the UK economy with average turnovers of £26,000 (Yell.com 2006). This is a growing trend as mothers who are entrepreneurs are one of the fastest growing business sectors.
MumsClub.co.uk is the thriving virtual community forum for entrepreneurial mums who manage to juggle businesses with the madness of family life, and with potentially tough times ahead forum members have collectively come up with their own innovative way to combat the looming recession.
As a single mum needing to generate an income to stay afloat, Jane Hopkins, 34 from Warwickshire retrained as a web designer, a skill which meant she could fulfil her own need to meet other mums just like her. In no time at all, MumsClub was live and generating interest from the Mumpreneur world. A year on and hundreds of members later they are all determined to combat the credit crunch, together.
With Jane at the helm, they have united to produce a shopping directory of mum owned businesses where they all have a listing and pay a nominal amount which all goes into centrally advertising the site. They have all agreed to spread the word between them to build the greatest network of mums. This could possibly be the ultimate in business networking. Here come the mums...!
www.mumpreneurdirectory.com
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September 2008
- MumsClub ‘Back to School, Back to Business’ competition launched
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 Congratulations on Finding the UK’s search for the most creative New Business idea for a mum!The competition is aimed at anyone who fancies winning the prizes – women, mums or business mums – it is simply a competition to win great prizes.
Have you always wondered about starting your own business working from home? Do you think you have an original, creative, or unique idea for a business? Enter the MumsClub competition to see if you will be voted most creative/unique business idea by mums already in business working from home.
PLUS! Our thanks go to entrepreneur Peter Jones who has donated our special prize for an established Mumpreneur to demonstrate how she intends to expand her business over the next 5 years.
Click here for more information
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May 2008
- exhibiting Mumpreneurs at the NEC Baby Show
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For the first time, mumpreneurs and working from home were exhibited at the UK’s largest baby show.
The MumsClub stand was busy for the whole of the three days where lots of MumsClubbers were able to meet each other.
Big thanks to the forum members who joined Jane on the stand who made it a great weekend. more
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May 2008
- launching The Business Mum’s Journal
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 The Business Mum’s Journal has arrived.
MumsClub hasd published the first magazine for Mumpreneurs, and distributed free copies at the NEC Baby show. Feedback has been superb and remaining copies were distributed at various other baby shows including Brighton, Cheltenham, NCT and through our network of Mumpreneurs across the UK.
The bi-annual magazine highlights mums who work from home with profiles, business tips and advice plus the mumpreneur directory of mum-owned businesses.
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Summer 2007
- Peter Jones’ Tycoon.com
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In the Summer of 2007, Peter Jones launched a national search to find a Tycoon which was presented on ITV1. To support the show he also launched an online game where players could buy and trade 150 ideas and make a virtual fortune.
MumsClub was one of the featured ideas and held the top place for many weeks until the last couple of weeks when we found 3rd place. Although it’s all over now, here’s the screen grab to remember...
Tycoon 2007 has now ended. We are pleased to announce MumsClub came 3rd out of 150
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