Tag: Work from Home

• The BOOK – Single Mum & 21st Century Peasant – Breaking out of Benefits Jail.

  The BOOK – Single Mums & 21st Century Peasant – Breaking out of Benefits Jail, is coming soon! I have held a number of webinars to address barriers to adequate work, homes and finance, and consequential benefits. This book shares my own journey as a Single Mum and self-proclaimed 21st Century Peasant, as I share…

  Jules

  October 29, 2022

  flexible working, Single Parent, Women in Business

  Budget, Childcare, economy, flexible working, Minimum Income Floor, SMBN, social enterprise, Universal Credit, Work from Home, Work in School Hours

• Categories announced for the SMBN 2022 Awards…

  Categories this year are: Campaigner of the Year Acing Adversity Award Super Start-up Community Champion Excellence in Customer Care Employer of the Year SMBN Champion of the Year Best Corporate Responsibility Best Innovation Award Best Business Marketing Read more…

  Jules

  May 16, 2022

  Women in Business

  Awards, Self-employed, Single Mums in Business, Small Business, Work from Home, Working School Hours

• Look at this amazing woman! Welcome New Member Natasha-Dawn Ni Leighn [aka Ash] Founder of Dandelion Weatherstone: VEGAN, ANTIBACTERIAL AND FUNKY C-SECTION KNICKERS…

  Look at this amazing woman! Welcome New Member Natasha-Dawn Ni Leighn [aka Ash] Founder of Dandelion Weatherstone: VEGAN, ANTIBACTERIAL AND FUNKY C-SECTION KNICKERS… Yes we all need underwear! But we don’t always realise what challenges exist if you’ve had a c-section, are a pregnant transman or if you have had any kind of surgery that…

  Jules

  September 16, 2021

  Women in Business

  #smbn, abdominal surgery, Advertising, Affordable PR, c-section, Creative, Dandelion Weatherstone, diabetes, eco, flexible working, heart-centred business, LBGT, Magazine, Natasha-Dawn Ni Leighn, NHS, pregnant transman, Single Mums in Business, Single Parent UK, UC, UK Business, underwear, Universal Credit, Uplift, Vegan, Work from Home

• Do you want to be a Single Mum in Business? – Check out the Salary and Job Description (and join the SMBN if this sounds like you!)

  Do you want to be a Single Mum in Business? – Check out the Salary and Job Description (and join the SMBN if this sounds like you!) Hours – 119 to 126 per week (must not expect Sundays off) Salary – £2.30 per hour OTE £30K + Holiday Pay – No * Sick Pay –…

  Jules

  March 6, 2021

  Women in Business

  flexible working, How to set-up a business, Minimum Income Floor, Part-time work, Single Mums in Business, Single Parent UK, Universal Credit, Work from Home, working mums

• Social Impact Review Report

  You can download the Social Impact Review Report (special first edition with typos) pdf HERE, but I have copied the content below for ease of reference. Single Mums Business Network Social Impact Review Barriers to Work, Cost to Economy and Solution Barriers to Finance, Cost to Economy and Solution Barriers to Home, Cost to Economy…

  Jules

  February 27, 2021

  Women in Business

  Adversity, Bank Charges, Budget, Budget Recovery, Childcare, Circular Economy, Covid Recovery, Debt, economy, flexible working, Loans for Bad Debt, Local Governance, Self Employed Mortgages, Single Mum Grant, Single Mums in Business, Single Mums Work, Small Budget, SMBN, Social Impact, Stigma, Universal Credit, Work from Home, Work in School Hours

• 2020 – The Year We All Made History. 2021, The Year of Imminent Fun

  

  We have all fought this year. We all have our own personal challenges and triumphs. The main thing is that we are here to tell the tale. We all know the dance isn’t over, but we all know it will be soon. Whatever you have survived for 9 months, you will survive for 3 more.…

  Jules

  December 31, 2020

  Women in Business

  #SHECAN365, 2020, Business Awards, Covid-19, Darling Magazine, Debt, Events 2021, Food Banks, Help Depression, HRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Julie Hawkins, Lady Magazine, New Year 2021, Single Mums in Business, Single Parent UK, Small Business, SmallBiz100, SMBN, Social Media Training, The year of covid-19, Universal Credit, Women in Business, Work from Home, Work in School Hours

• Member success story – single mum in business created three female breadwinners, and has now hired a new member of staff who is pregnant

  To try and articulate how immensly proud I am to share Laura’s story seems to great a task. Not only is she a single mum who faught to make work work for her and her family, she sustained, she grew, she employed, and during Covid-19 when the self-employed partners lost work, she created and sustained…

  Jules

  August 29, 2020

  Women in Business

  Childcare, Covid-19, Employment in Pregnancy, Female Breadwinners, HR Consultant, Julie Hawkins, Laura Callahan, Single Mums, Single Mums in Business, Single Parent UK, SMBN, Willow HR, Work from Home, Work in School Hours, Working Tax Credits

• Welcome New Member – Danielle Fletcher – Certified Social Media Marketer, Facebook & Instagram Ads Strategist, Learn Digital With Danielle

  I am delighted to welcome Danielle Fletcher, Certified Social Media Marketer, Facebook & Instagram Ads Strategist, Learn Digital With Danielle, to the Single Mums Business Network. We met at a recent Woman Who awards event in Coventry and made an immediate connection. If you are still shy about networking, please don’t be, once we have…

  Jules

  March 23, 2020

  Women in Business

  Certified Social Media Marketer, Danielle Fletcher, Facebook & Instagram Ads Strategist, Facebook Ads Manager, Facebook Ads Training, Instagram Manager, Instagram Training, Learn Digital With Danielle, Leicester, Lively Social Media, Near ME, Self-Employed Single Mums UK, Single Mums in Business, SMBN, Social Media Management, Work from Home

• Welcome New Member, Rebecca Flynn – Director of Alpha and Omega Recruitment, London & Liverpool

  I am delighted to welcome Rebecca to the SMBN! Again, Rebecca just showcases the professional woman that is also a Single Mum – are you beginning to see? Rebecca met Sarah, our County Coordinator in Liverpool last month and I am so pleased that she has now decided to join our fantastic National Network, of…

  Jules

  March 20, 2020

  Uncategorized

  Alpha and Omega Recruitment, divorce, Liverpool, London, Rebecca Flynn, Recruitment, Self-employed Single Mum UK, Single Mums in Business UK, Single Parent UK, SMBN, Work from Home, Work in School Hours, working mums

• Welcome New Member, Genny Jones from Genny Jones Training (accountancy) to the Single Mums Business Network

  I am delighted to welcome Genny Jones to the Single Mums Business Network. We have been connected on Twitter for some time and I had no idea she was a fellow SMiB! Here’s what she says: With over 20 years experience of working in the accounting field in various roles. In my business, I help…

  Jules

  March 2, 2020

  Women in Business

  Accountancy Training, Accountants, Bookkeeper Training, Charity Accountant, Charity Accounts, Coaching, Genny Jones, Kent, Mums in Business, Near ME, Quickbooks Training, Single Mums in Business, Single Mums in Business UK, Single Parent UK, SMBN, training, Women in Business, Work from Home, working mums

• Welcome New Member, Claire Harris, Pets 2 Places (a great franchise opportunity!)

  Welcome New Member, Claire Harris, Pets 2 Places (a great fanchise opportunity!) Members enjoy exposure to their business with every visit to the SMBN and associated PR. Please don’t hesitate to join us if you are a Single Mum working hard to pay the bills alone, we are here to help you. You do not…

  Jules

  February 19, 2020

  Women in Business

  #gingerbread, #smbn, Affordable Franchise, Business Networking, Elderly Support, Franchise Opportunity, Julie Hawkins, Milton Keynes, Mums in Business, Networking Near Me, New Business Idea, Pet Taxi, Pets 2 Places, Single Mums in Business, Single Mums in Business UK, Single Parent UK, Women in Business, womensupportingwomen, work for good, Work from Home, Work in School Hours

• I set up the Single Mums Business Network following my own 8 year journey as a single mum trying to balance work, childcare, finance and business.. despite stigma.

  ‘FLEXIBLE WORKING ISN’T AN OPTION.’ THAT’S WHAT MY EMPLOYER CONFIRMED DURING MY MATERNITY. I HAD TO CHOOSE, MY CAREER OR MY DAUGHTER? I CHOSE MY DAUGHTER, AND PAID THE PRICE. When I say I paid the price I want to be clear from the off, I do not and never have regretted choosing my daughter. Every cuddle,…

  Jules

  January 20, 2020

  Women in Business

  #smbn, CGT, Childcare, Debt, divorce, HIgh Rent, Housing Crisis, Living Wage, low pay, Minimum Wage, Part-time work, Pay day loans, Private Rent, Private Rental, Relative Poverty, Self-employed, Self-Employed Single Mums UK, single mum, single mums business network, Single Mums in Business UK, Single Parent UK, uk, Work from Home, Work in School Hours, working mums

• Welcome new ‘Friend of the SMBN’ – Catherine Gladwyn, Delegate VA and How to be a VA

  I’m delighted to welcome Catherine Gladwyn of Delegate VA and How to be a VA as a ‘Friend of the SMBN’. Catherine is an Award Winning Author and was a speaker at our Conference in September 2019. She offers training and membership via her website ‘How to be a VA’…

  Jules

  January 13, 2020

  Women in Business

  #smbn, catherine gladwyn, delegate va, How to be a VA, Self-employed, single mum, single mums business network, Single Parent UK, Small Business, Virtual Assistant, Virtual Personal Assistant, womensupportingwomen, Work from Home

• Welcome New Member Laura Callahan of Willow HR, to the Single Mums Business Network

  Laura says: ‘At the end of 2016, after 15 years in HR and Recruitment, I started Willow HR Consulting. We specialise in supporting small to medium-sized enterprises achieve their strategic objectives through their people. This sometimes means we are supporting a business to resolve an immediate critical issue, working on medium-term projects or offering long-term…

  Jules

  January 6, 2020

  Uncategorized

  business support, HR, Laura Callahan, Oxford, Single Mum in Business, SMBN, Work from Home

• Welcome New Member – Nehaya Zitawi – Hiya’s Healing, to the SMBN

  I am delighted to welcome Nehaya to the SMBN, a professional network of Single Mums in Business in the UK. Nehaya works from Bristol and I met her at our Bristol meeting this week, she is absolutely amazing with her journey and sincerity towards helping other. Here’s what she says:

  Jules

  December 17, 2019

  Women in Business

  Angel Card Reading, Bristol, Bristol Single Mums, Coaching, flexible working, Housing Crisis, Life Coach, Minimum Wage, Nehaya Zitawi, Reflexology, Self-employed Single Mum UK, Single Mums in Business, Single Parent UK, Small Business, SMBN, uk, work for good, Work from Home, Work in School Hours, Work Life Balance

• SMBN – Business Network for Single Mums in the UK – Affordable Exposure and Events – 2019 Summary

  SMBN – Business Network for Single Mums in the UK – Affordable Exposure and Events

  Jules

  December 10, 2019

  Women in Business

  #networking, Affordable Advertising, Affordable PR, business network, flexible working, Housing Crisis, Mums in Business, Near ME, Part-time work, Relative Poverty, Self-employed Single Mum UK, Single Mums in Business, Single Parent UK, Small Business, Work from Home, Work in School Hours

• Welcome new member Jane Scanlan, Cherish, Transform, Upgrade

  I’m delighted to welcome Jane Scanlan of Cherish Transform Updgrade to the SMBN, a UK wide network for Single Mums in Business. Jane is based in Bournemouth and she may well be announced as the County Coordinator soon! Watch this space! Here’s what Jane says;

  Jules

  December 4, 2019

  Women in Business

  Affordable Advertising, Affordable PR, Bournemouth, Business Networking, Cherish Transform Upgrade, Jane Scanlan, Mindset Course, Mums in Business, Self-love Course, Single Mums in Business, Single Mums UK, Single Parent UK, Wellbeing, Women in Business, Work from Home, Work in School Hours, Work Life Balance, Work Part-Time

• Welcome new member and SMBN County Coordinator for BRISTOL, Emma Greenslade – Life in Harmony and Wildly Successful Mama

  I would like to welcome Emma Greenslade of Life in Harmony and Wildly Successful Mama to the SMBN. Emma has also taken on the role of County Coordinator for BRISTOL. – Take some time to look at her links below to see the depth of what she does… I met Emma at Kirsty’s Gloucester SMBN…

  Jules

  November 13, 2019

  Women in Business

  #networking, #smbn, Benefits, Bristol, Emma Greenslade, Gingerbread donation, Mama, Mums in Business, Part-time work, Self-employed, Self-employed Single Mum UK, single mum, single mums business network, Women in Business, work for good, Work from Home

• Welcome new member, Jo Eccersley, Pink Spaghetti PA Services Exeter and SMBN County Coordinator for DEVON

  I would like to welcome Emily Wright – Owner and Founder of Purabelle to the Single Mums Business Network. Emily has also taken on the role of County Coordinator for BIRMINGHAM! – Emily is a fantastic business woman and I am delighted that she has decided to join us, and represent us in her area..

  Jules

  November 11, 2019

  Women in Business

  #networking, #smbn, Benefits, Birmingham, Emily Wright, Merseyside, Mums in Business, Part-time work, Purabelle, Self-employed, single mum, single mums business network, Women in Business, work for good, Work from Home

• Welcome new member, Sarah Harvey, SMBN County Coordinator for MERSEYSIDE

  I would like to welcome Sarah Harvey – to the Single Mums Business Network. Sarah has taken on the role of County Coordinator for MERSEYSIDE! – Sarah is a very competent business woman and I am delighted that she is representing the SMBN in the City of LIVERPOOL and County of Merseyside!

  Jules

  October 6, 2019

  Women in Business

  #networking, Benefits, Liverpool, Merseyside, Part-time work, Sarah Harvey, Self-employed, single mum, Women in Business, work for good, Work from Home