Campaign celebrating female entrepreneurs lists Derby entrepreneur in its Top 100

Added by Love Business East Midlands | 6 February 2019

UPDATED: 6 February 2019

Small business campaign f:Entrepreneur has revealed its #ialso Top 100, a collection of 100 female entrepreneurs inspiring their peers and communities through their businesses and wider activities.

Included in the list is Farrah Allarakha from Derby, who founded innovative device company, Neo Elegance in 2014. She was also listed for her volunteer work with charities and raising awareness for skin health.

Farrah Allarakha is a part of the first #ialso Top 100, a campaign born from International Women’s Day 2018. During the event, the phrase used most by the gathered entrepreneurs was “I also…”, with each woman describing their work as being much more than a single-job career and more of a flexible portfolio.

On being listed in the #ialso Top 100, Farrah Allarakha said:

“I’m extremely excited to be part of #ialso top 100, its an amazing way to showcase the achievements of women all over the country, in a variety of businesses. Businesses are challenging and when we all come together and share our challenges and successes, it makes us better entrepreneurs!”

The aim of f:Entrepreneur is to showcase multi-achieving women like Farrah Allarakha in the #ialso Top 100, to provide lessons of challenge and success for all small business founders – both men and women.

The campaign is built around a programme of content, stories and events including roundtables, Q&A sessions and panels as well as larger all-day events throughout the year. This year the campaign will be holding its biggest ever event in London in the week leading up to International Womens Day.

Now in its third year, f:Entrepreneur is run by peak b, a campaigning organisation with a world class track record in conception, management and execution of high-profile, national campaigns particularly in the small business and enterprise sectors.

Both f:Entrepreneur and peak b were founded by Michelle Ovens MBE, who is also director of Small Business Saturday UK and chair of the Small Business Charter.

Michelle said:

“I am delighted to reveal f:Entrepreneur’s first ever #ialso Top 100; the trailblazers demonstrating that entrepreneurialism is a space being reinvented by women. The stories of these women are incredibly inspirational and reach outside the traditional bounds of business, including a number of cancer survivors and carers, amongst many other people who do so much more than their day job.

“This is a campaign that highlights the work of incredible women, but it is not only aimed at inspiring other women. This is for men too; showing everyone that even in the toughest situations in life, it is entrepreneurs who are the people that not only survive but thrive, creating purposeful small businesses
and supporting their communities every day.”

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