Stockport businesswoman wins national award
STOCKPORT businesswoman Anne Wallace has won a national NatWest everywoman award in recognition of her work as a social entrepreneur.
Anne won the award after opening Starpoint – a social enterprise café in Stockport.
The café provides numerous courses and activities for the elderly, unemployed and young Mums. These include as IT skills course which helped more than 400 people use the internet for the first time.
Everywoman is the UK’s largest female business organisation with more than 40,000 members. The NatWest everywoman awards were founded in 2003 to showcase the UK’s best female business entrepreneurs.
Everywoman co-founder, Karen Gill MBE, said: “Every year the most incredible stories come to the fore through these inspiring awards. With media headlines predicting global financial strife the NatWest everywoman Awards offer hope and inspiration to thousands of women who have a seed of an idea that they believe could translate to business success.
“Yet again we have uncovered a host of role models who are testament that vision and determination equal success and that Britain remains a strong breeding ground for enterprise.”
