Tag: female entrepreneurs

NatWest and Meta launch package of support for female entrepreneurs

Stuart Mitchell

NatWest and Meta’s partnership offers crucial support to female entrepreneurs and comes soon after the Rose Review’s recent update stating that more help is needed to boost the number of female businesses. NatWest and social technology company, Meta, have launched a partnership to offer financial readiness training and other support to female business owners. This is available to all female entrepreneurs via Meta’s #SheMeansBusiness programme, which also provides digital skills training and opportunities to expand business connections and networks. This builds on NatWest and Meta’s strong track-records on supporting women in business…

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MicroLoan Foundation launches EmpowerHer campaign to help 50,000 female entrepreneurs

Stuart Mitchell

MicroLoan Foundation has launched its latest campaign, EmpowerHer, today in a bid to help 50,000 female entrepreneurs in Africa. The initiative comes as the poverty gap for vulnerable women and girls continues to grow, something that the Covid-19 pandemic has made worse because of its disproportionate impact on this demographic.   UN Women, for instance, has warned that the pandemic will push 47 million more women and girls below the poverty line, reversing decades of progress to eradicate extreme poverty.   In 2019, 80% of the women who joined MicroLoan…

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