First Women

The First Women awards program was created by Real business 2005 in United Kingdom.

First Women was supported by the Confederation of British Industry. Henrietta Jowitt, Deputy Director-General, Commercial at the CBI gave the keynote speech at the 2016 First Woman Awards.[1]

The First Women Young Achiever Award was celebrated by Emma Hagan, chief risk officer at Silicon Valley Bank, aged 24, and Amanda White, who headed up the HS3 rail project.[2]

Jan Flawn CBE was the first Woman of business services who launched her business at the age of 50[3] after raising her children, uses her First Women platform to advocate for women across the country.

Charity[edit]

First Women has partnered with Keep a Girl in School Project[4] to create awareness and help towards promoting education for girls in Uganda and The Washroom Project[5] to raise funds that will support the education of at least 500 girls.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Henrietta Jowitt keynote speech at First Women Awards 2016".
  2. ^ "The young female achiever changing the face of transport and engineering".
  3. ^ "Five minutes with ... Jan Flawn, nurse turned chair of PJ Care Ltd". TheGuardian.com. 16 August 2013.
  4. ^ "Keep a Girl in School".
  5. ^ "The Washroom Project".

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