For Women in Business
For women buildingbusinesses in the UK
This page is not about us. It's a working map of the support that exists for women-owned businesses in the UK, kept here because finding it shouldn't take a week of searching.
The support exists. It's just scattered across a dozen tabs a founder doesn't have time to open.
Support for women-owned businesses UK wide is real and growing, but it's fragmented. Funding sits in one place, mentoring in another, community in a third. We keep this page updated as a signpost, because a rising tide of well-branded, well-funded women-led businesses is exactly the industry we want to work in.
The UK ecosystem
Places worth knowing
Four starting points, described plainly. We claim no affiliation with any of them. [PLACEHOLDER: confirm any actual relationships with the founder before badging or linking as partners.]
She Means Business
British Business Bank
Research and practical guidance on access to finance for female entrepreneurs, sitting alongside the Bank's wider start up support and the Start Up Loans programme.
Women in Business Network
WIBN
A membership networking organisation running regular local groups across the UK, built around referrals and long term business relationships between members.
Female Resource Directory
Community led
A directory model for finding women-owned suppliers, services and specialists, useful both for buying from women-led businesses and for being found as one.
POW, the Power of Women directory
Community led
A listing and visibility platform for women in business, used to discover speakers, founders and services across sectors.
How we support
What we actually do about it
Step 1
Publish the useful stuff
The journal answers the branding and marketing questions founders actually search for, free, with no gate.
Step 2
Signpost honestly
This page points at real organisations without pretending partnership. When a relationship becomes real, we'll say so plainly.
Step 3
Build proof, not slogans
Every women-led business we help brand and grow is the argument made visible. The portfolio is the campaign.
Building something? We're listening
Whether you're at the kitchen table stage or the second premises stage, tell us where you're heading.