A Leicestershire business leader whose 45-year career has span entrepreneurship, large corporations and local economic development has been honoured with a special award by East Midlands Chamber’s Enterprising Women network. Sue Tilley, head of business and innovation at the Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP), received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Enterprising Women Awards 2023. She...
Added by Love Business East Midlands | 9 June 2023 UPDATED: 9 June 2023 Female talent from across the East Midlands business community has been showcased through East Midlands Chamber’s Enterprising Women Awards. Finalists across 10 categories were announced for the 2023 awards, in association with headline sponsor Michael Smith Switchgear, at a summer networking and...
Amidst the traffic chaos of Sri Lanka: the popular auto-rickshaws, or tuk-tuks. They’re traditionally driven by men. But increasingly, you’ll see a woman at the wheel – and this film is about three of them: Anulawathi, Thushari and Jega. Anulawathi, Thushari and Jega all do the same job: they’re auto rickshaw drivers in Sri Lanka,...
A charity bike ride set up in memory of a young girl with a “bright future ahead” who was killed at a Christmas party has raised over £500. Rosie May Storrie, 10, was suffocated by a 17-year-old boy she knew at the party on December 28, 2003 in Normanton, West Yorkshire. A year after the...
In the month that would have seen Rosie May Storrie turn 30, reporter Katie Green speaks to her mum, Mary Storrie, on the loss of her daughter and the foundation set up in her honour. Losing a child is a parent’s worst nightmare. On December 28, 2003, this nightmare became a reality for Mary and...
Our new Think Pink drivers in Nottingham have featured on our local BBC news this week. Our female drivers are taking to the streets of Nottingham, navigating the busy city and benefitting from flexible work and a good income.
Watch our feature on BBC News as it showcases our first Think Pink Drivers initiative.
Cinderella has offered a cup of human kindness to a charity that supports impoverished women and girls in Sri Lanka. The Newark panto star, Anna Unwin, and cast, took time out after a matinee performance to share a cup of kindness, a hot drink, and a remarkable reunion, with the Rosie May Foundation by the...
Rosie May Storrie was 10 when she was murderednottinghampost The mother of Rosie May Storrie, a 10-year-old Nottinghamshire schoolgirl who was murdered at a party, says her daughter would be proud of all the charitable work her family is doing in her honour. Rosie May died after she was attacked at a Christmas party in...
Pink, female-only taxis driven by women are to be trialled in a city. Mary Storrie, co-founder of the Rosie May Foundation – a charity set up in memory of her murdered daughter – hopes to launch the Think Pink taxi scheme in the spring in Nottingham. The charity is behind a similar scheme in Sri...
