Women bore the brunt of Covid, let’s get back in business What is your purpose in life? Perhaps it’s your children, career, a decent living or giving back to those less fortunate. For many of us, our job gets us up in the morning – not because we love it…

With sustainability being a focus for us for the next few months, we met up with Jillian, owner of The Little Green Larder in Dundee. Jillian runs Dundee’s first completely zero waste shop and we wanted to learn more about how sustainability has been at the heart of the business…

Women’s Business Station member Hayley Donnelly of Racquet Buddies is branching out and becoming a franchise with the help of Linda Johnstone who has become the first franchisee. It’s fantastic seeing two women empower each other to reach new heights in their business! A Perthshire primary school teacher has become…

Shonagh spoke to Sophie Fairweather (daughter of Kelly Fairweather, owner of The Selkie Dundee) about what it was like growing up in a business environment and how it effect her outlook on her own career and how she presents herself to the world. Sophie Fairweather, ” I ’ve learned it’s…

Getting to know our Enterprise Facilitator – Kate Mason Kate, tell us a little about your role here at Women’s Business Station?  I joined WBS 3 months ago as an “Enterprise Facilitator”.  Once new members have joined, they are offered three 1-2-1 sessions where we can take a deeper look at their business and in particular, highlight areas…

Read the latest article where our CEO and founder, Angie De Vos reflects on the past year and talks of The Aspiring Women programme set to launch in September.   A new programme from a Dundee social enterprise aims to prevent women getting left behind in the pandemic. The Aspiring…

  Our Funding and Research Assistant Marianthi reflects on her first couple of months working with the Women’s Business Station team, how the government’s Kickstarter scheme helped her find the role and what the future holds for the jewellery designer.    I first heard about the Funding and Research Assistant job at Women’s Business Station through…

This week we caught up with Claire Webster of Wonder Design and Kelly Fairweather of The Selkie and asked them about their recent collaboration together. Claire created new menus for Kelly’s restaurant, The Selkie.  Kelly said, “I was needing new menus designed in a hurry, specifically ones that you could wipe and would…

Our Social Media Assistant Shonagh Kelly reflects on her first couple of months working with the Women’s Business Station team, how the government’s Kickstarter scheme helped her find the role and what the future holds for the budding photographer. “When I first started here at WBS I felt very nervous…

Our member, Hayley Donnelly of Racquet Buddies has been forced to cancel all plans of starting her classes again despite the fact that her business would be complying by the latest COVID-19 rules. Article from The Courier: “Despite national guidance stating group outdoor exercise for children is permitted,  coach Hayley…