NatWest Celebrates International Women’s Day

NatWest is committed to supporting female entrepreneurs and women in business.

It has a team of 400 Women in Business Specialists dedicated to supporting women in business across the UK by sharing business expertise and offering tangible support to help female-led businesses to set up, scale and succeed. Each Woman in Business Specialist is accredited by Chartered Banker and certified by everywoman.

Did you know:

• If women set up businesses at the same rate as men, we could have an extra 1 million female entrepreneurs in the UK, potentially increasing UK GDP by £60 billion by 2030 (Women’s Business Council Report).
• Female entrepreneurs contributed £3.51 billion to the economy in 2015*
• Women launched 126,000 businesses in 2015*
• 798,000 jobs in the UK were generated by businesses started by women between 2002-2015*

NatWest is running a workshop on ‘Creative Problem Solving’ on the 14 March, for further information and registration please visit www.vickypannell.eventbrite.co.uk

*Source:  NatWest FEE Report 2015