Small business campaign f:Entrepreneur has revealed its #ialso Top 100, a collection of 100 female entrepreneurs inspiring their peers and communities through their businesses and wider activities.
Included in the list is Rebecca Newenham, founder and director of award-winning virtual agency Get Ahead VA. Rebecca runs a team of over 40 virtual assistants and franchisees across the UK and is a champion of flexible working.
On being listed in the #ialso Top 100, Rebecca Newenham said:
“I am delighted to have been recognised alongside other inspiring female business leaders in the UK. I grew up with a successfully self-employed mother and always knew that I wanted to run my own business one day, just like she did. I love helping people realise their dreams of running their own business through our franchises, as well as providing flexible work for people who are trying to balance work and family life and helping our clients to grow and achieve their potential.”
The aim of f:Entrepreneur is to showcase multi-achieving women like Rebecca Newenham in the #ialso Top 100, to provide lessons of challenge and success for all small business founders – both men and women. This year the campaign will be holding its biggest ever event in London in the week leading up to International Women’s Day.
Now in its fourth year, f:Entrepreneur is run by peak b, a campaigning organisation with a world class track record in conception, management and execution of high-profile, national campaigns particularly in the small business and enterprise sectors.
Both f:Entrepreneur and peak b were founded by Michelle Ovens MBE, who is also director of Small Business Saturday UK and chair of the Small Business Charter.
Michelle said:
“I am delighted to reveal f:Entrepreneur’s second annual #ialso Top 100; the trailblazers demonstrating that entrepreneurialism is a space being reinvented by women. The stories of these women are incredibly inspirational and reach outside the traditional bounds of business, including a number of cancer survivors and carers, amongst many other people who do so much more than their day job.
“This is a campaign that highlights the work of incredible women, but it is not only aimed at inspiring other women. This is for men too; showing everyone that even in the toughest situations in life, it is entrepreneurs who are the people that not only survive but thrive, creating purposeful small businesses and supporting their communities every day.”
