Single Mums Business Network [SMBN CIC]

As a single mum in business I have been networking for a number of years, and I love what networking with like-minded women does for your spirit, and your business, when most of the week you are working hard, normally alone. In the early days I did not have the confidence and I definitely suffered…

Certainly as a single-mum you are often made to feel as though you are committing a crime against society if you are not in employment, a crime if you work part-time and are in receipt of housing benefit and a crime if you work full-time and have to leave your child(ren) for the best part…

Julie set-up her business KIH Products Ltd in 2013, two years after she designed the KIH Bed when she was pregnant with her daughter in 2011.  For years Julie attended networking meetings and these were priceless with respect to the comradeship, support and encouragment from other small business owners.  The only issue that Julie has…

The SMBN was formed by Single Mum and Multi-Award-Winning Business Woman Julie Hawkins to create a Business Network specifically to recognise and support the challenges that are unique to single mums when starting and growing a business in the UK.