The Hub

Welcome to the SMBN Reception

The Single Mums Business Network, aka SMBN CIC, a Network of Single Mums, with a Social Conscience, Supporting our Wider Community with Work, Enterprise and Wellbeing

Please click on the relevant doorway below for information on Membership, Corporate Membership, Signposting for Men, Campaign info, Webinars, PR, Personal & Professional Development, Awards, Impactful Investment and More.

Conference

June 11th 2024 – Save the Date


Conference Information

Support us

The Single Mums Business Network is ran by Single Mums in Business and whilst it has always operated as a not-for-profit since its launch in 2019, I formally converted it to a CIC, along with my Co-Director, Nehaya Zitawi, in December 2022, this is to reassure our members that our work is dedicated to serving our community. 

There are many ways that you can support our work, within your marketing budget.

1. You can advertise with us in our quarterly magazine
2. You can sponsor our awards
3. You can exhibit at our conference
4. You can join us a member, or friend of the SMBN

Support Us – Single Mums Business Network [SMBN] [CIC]

Impact

Much of our impact cannot be measured, but we do our best!

You can see some testimonials and feedback here, but much of what we do is to support, uplift, inspire, and reassure our members that they do not have to fight solo. In the picture above we travelled 5 hours to help a member, who has a debilitating illness, create a PIE to enable her to work with focus and rest with comfort. Much of our work is organic and is just about community, positive influence and protection.

IMPACT – Single Mums Business Network [SMBN] [CIC]

Member, Friend of SMBN or Corporate Membership

You can join as a Full Member if you are a Single Mum, as a ‘Friend’ of the SMBN, if you are married or male, or as a Corporate Member, if you promote Equal Opportunity and Corporate Responsibility
Learn more
JOIN US

Meetings, Webinars and Workshops

Please click on the image above to see our Events page. Members benefit from regular meetings, currently on zoom, as a free member benefit, but we also host other meetings and webinars offering information, advice and general business networking. You can watch the last webinar here – the book I refer to is Breaking Out of Benefits Jail (Single Mums and 21st Century Peasant)

Awards

Annual Awards for Single Mums in Business and those who Support Us

You do not have to be a single mum to enter, some categories are for employers and others who support our community – Awards

The Book

Contents

  1. Making Peace with Benefits
  2. Flexible Working
  3. Multi-Level Marketing & Networking
  4. Ethical, Impactful Business
  5. Business in a Digital World – Setting up your shop window and Minimum Income Floor
  6. Business Departments and Transferable Skills
  7. Mindset and Gratitude
  8. Peer Pressure – Anti Growth
  9. Social Conditioning – Expectations Hurt Us
  10. Forgiving Ignorance and Walking Away
  11. University
  12. Support and Information
  13. Embracing Isolation & Loneliness
  14. Barriers
  15. Financial Education
  16. Responsible Finance
  17. Credit Scoring, Sharks, Fat Cats, Tax Evasion
  18. Social Impact Review 2019

Learn More / Buy

PR for YOUR business or organisation

Join as a member, friend, or corporate member to benefit from exposure in the Single Mums Business Magazine, which is distributed quarterly. Free to read in full on-line to remove barriers to readership, and hard copies available to purchase via selected independent stockists and via this website.

Magazine Link

Signposting for Men

We are a network for women, and we have many reasons for that, but we want you guys to be more than okay too, see click on the picture of Nav above, for signposting to the many networks and organisations out there for men only.

Signposting for Men Link

Campaigning for the removal of barriers to Homes, Work and Finance for Personal and Professional Development

As evidenced in the picture above, we work tirelessly to raise awareness, from the local radio to the PM, of the barriers to work, homes and finance, and will not stop until these barriers are removed, and equity and equality for our community are embraced and embedded into UK culture.

Read More and look at this report Employment Research (TBC) — Single Parent Rights

When you join us, you restore or plant a tree! Read more..

As we are all consumed with finding our own oxygen masks, we can be forgiven for not having the time, energy or resources to support our environment, our elders or our more vulnerable members of society. We are working to change that, our barriers are removable, and the sooner they are removed the sooner we can look outside and support others. Meanwhile, we do what we can, firstly, by supporting the ReForest Fund!

Trillion Trees ReForest Fund – Single Mums Business Network [SMBN] [CIC]

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Whatever joy there is in this world, comes from desiring others to be happy, and
whatever suffering there is in this world, comes from desiring myself to be happy […]

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The SMBN. Where SOLO no longer means SOLO