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  Content Editor Required for the Forward Ladies Hub

  27/02/2012

  We're looking for a Content Editor to help us manage and develop the Forward Ladies Hub. This is a voluntary role that could provide the righ person with some excellent hands on experience in managing web content. Training and full support provided.

  
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  Is your business HIGH GROWTH? Would you like to explore trading with the US?

  03/01/2012

  If so and your turnover is 500k or more please email me- etta.cohen@forwardladies.com

  
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  Daily Mail Opportunity

  03/01/2012

  I’m a journalist writing a piece for the Daily Mail about how women’s decisions not to have children affects their own mothers. So – I am looking to speak to three mothers of women in their late 30s / 40s who have decided not to have children. Are these women disappointed at not becoming grandmothers? Have they talked to their daughters about how they feel? Anyone who spoke to me would need to be pictured, have a chat with me on the phone and would be paid £200 for their time. I would also be able to mention what they did for a living so an opportunity to promote their business. We wouldn’t want it to be a one sided account and would be more than happy to include quotes from the daughter as well explaining their decision. Please feel free to contact me at antonia@antoniahoyle.com if you are interested or would like any more information.

  
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• The North West Restaurant Awards 2011

  At Forward Ladies we get about a bit (in the nicest possible way!). With over 300 events per year we see a lot of venues and that inspired Sue France, our licensee in Merseyside and Cheshire, to encourage members in her region to rate all the restaurants visited in 2011. The results are now in!

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• 2 Forward Ladies members win Doncaster Chamber Business Award

  Shore Stewart Employment and Litigation Solicitors have won the New Start Business of the Year award at the prestigious Doncaster Chamber Business Awards 2011. Despite tough competition, Michelle Shore and Kate Stewart (both Forward Ladies members), the directors and owners of Shore Stewart were presented with the Award at the Gala Dinner at Doncaster Racecourse on 15 December 2011 by Look North’s Harry Gration.

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• North West businesswomen vote against compulsory gender quotas in the boardroom

  Merit and ability should be driving board appointments, according to Deloitte research.
  
  

  Two thirds of senior businesswomen in the North West are against the introduction of compulsory gender quotas in the boardroom. Instead, the majority believe that appointment to the board should be based on merit, experience and ability, rather than regulation.

  However, despite rejecting quotas as a solution to the existing gender imbalance within UK plc, many feel that the current slow pace of change is unacceptable.

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