A Lockdown inspired business that is making our fashion accessories more sustainable.

Sustainable Award for Women Making an Impact Finalist – Maira Azhar

Maira is extremely passionate about raising awareness of the benefits of using cork fabric in the […]

She couldn’t save her brother from suicide – but now her Tech skills are saving others.

Introducing our Women Making Waves Award Finalist Alice Hendy, CEO of R;pple Suicide Prevention

In November 2020, Alice lost her brother, Josh to suicide […]

‘This is what an Engineer looks like’.

And it looks like our Here Come the Girls Award Finalist: Krystina Pearson-Rampeearee, a Chartered Aeronautical engineer with BAE Systems.

Krystina is a Chartered Aerospace Engineer, Mother, STEM Ambassador, Mentor and Business […]

‘You’ve got to have some adventure in your life.’ 

 Our guest speaker for the 31^st annual Inspiring Women Awards is 59 year old Viv Barclay, who is attempting to set a world record as the oldest solo woman to row the Atlantic. Oh and lets add that she is not […]

Following in the footsteps of Oscar winner, Olivia Coleman and Dame Cressida Dick is Louisa Blake, one of our three 2023 Community Award finalists.

Louisa Blake has been an early year schoolteacher on the Wirral for over 29 years and is presently the […]

2023 Entrepreneur Category Finalists 

Heather Glover & Kate Maurice

Skarlette was founded by friends Heather Glover & Kate Maurice in 2021 when Heather a nurse and two-time breast cancer survivor, and Kate a retired pilot and passionate seamstress, noticed a lack of flat […]

On 2nd January 2022 my daughter Olivia and I found ourselves checking and cleaning hundreds of books that had been donated to Dee Drake‘s (Community Winner 2017) The Toy Appeal for inclusion in the Christmas sacks some 11 months later. Not withstanding the back ache, […]

A shout out to those who love an opportunity to dress up 

We all know that person who needs no excuse to don fancy dress, like Karen Campbell-Williams below, who jumped at the chance to release her inner Lady Featherington and those, like me, who avoid it at all costs.

That all changed […]

In what has become something of a tradition, more Inspiring Women Award winners have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours List, the first from King Charles 111. 

Dee Drake, formerly known as, well Dee Drake, is now Dee Drake BEM.

All smiles […]