Enterprising Women

At Enterprising Women, our goal is to help women achieve the success they want, by empowering, connecting, training, inspiring, campaigning, promoting, celebrating and supporting them in whatever way we can. We warmly welcome all female business owners, new and well-established, from any sector, background and from all parts of the UK.

What makes Enterprising Women different?
Founded by Bev Hurley, C.B.E., we launched in 2006 with a brand new approach, centering on the concept of building a supportive community, and advancing women's enterprise through providing support at all stages of the business journey, including growth – a novelty then, when all the focus was on pre- and start-up. We transformed the support landscape for women, starting in the East of England with funding from the Regional Development agency.

Other unique attributes were the 100% focus on being led by the needs of the women we served, our own significant first-hand experience of the highs and lows of running our own successful businesses, and a passion for wanting to share our skills and knowledge in a creative, collaborative and supportive environment and enable others to do so to.

Finally, all our high quality, real-world training courses are not only delivered at female-friendly times and locations, but are designed both to extend functional business skills and learning at the same time as developing women's management and leadership skills. We believe you can best grow a successful business by growing your personal skills in tandem – and that we can all learn from each other.

In 2010, we established Enterprising Women as a not-for-profit company. We've seen too many businesswomen be turned off by hard telesales calls, high membership prices delivering little value, and expensive, unsustainable franchise deals; being not-for-profit is is a really important part of our ethos. In tough economic times, our members need to know and trust that we're doing everything we can to increase value to them, not to us.