Female Founders Succeed

An Event to Inspire Local Female Business Owners to Redefine and Envision their Version of Success

Thursday 6th March 2025, 09:30 – 15:30, Ashridge House

Join us on 6th March!

To mark International Women’s Day, Chiltern Biz Collective is hosting an inspirational and energising day for local female business owners on 6th March 2025. The focus for our day will be to discuss and define our own version of success to support you to create a “YOU shaped” business.

We will be joined by local female founders who will be sharing their experiences and their version of success. Throughout the morning we will be encouraging you to reflect on and consider your own version of success with a set of questions and prompts. In the afternoon you will bring these thoughts to life by creating a vision board.

As well as hearing from our speakers we have built in plenty of time for you to meet and connect with fellow attendees and to have discussions on the theme of the day & more.

Key Information

The event is taking place on Thursday 6th March between 09:30am and 2:30pm, at Ashridge House, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, HP4 1NS

The event is open to all local business women in and around The Chilterns.

Tickets sales are now closed.

Female Founders Succeed

The Agenda

This is an outline agenda and may be subject to change.

As you can see, you are invited to arrive from 09:30; however the talks won’t begin until 9:45am and we will be relaxed & welcoming. So if you need to drop the kids off/ walk the dog/ do any more of the ‘juggle’ before arriving then that’s fine, just get there when you can!

The formal agenda for the day will be finished by 2:30pm.
For 2025 we have added an optional ‘Brew & Biz’ session for you to stay for an hour of discussion and connecting with other attendees, with a cuppa.
Again, we appreciate the ‘juggle’ that all solopreneurs and business owners face so if you need to leave early then it’s totally fine – just let us know.

9:30am – Arrive – tea & coffee available

9:45am – Welcome and Outline for the day from Corinne Wallington

10am – 12pm – Local Female Business Owners Share Their Version of Success

12pm – Reflection Time

12:30pm – Lunch

1:15pm – Visualise Your Own Version of Success (vision boarding activity)

2:20pm – Close

2:30pm – 3:30pm – Brew & Biz

3:30pm – Leave venue

Our Speakers

Corinne Wallington

The event will be hosted and facilitated by Chiltern Biz Collective owner, Corinne. After a 14 year career in HR, and 2 babies, Corinne decided to venture into the small business world. After initially trying her hand with a product based business, Corinne moved into social media management and then running Chiltern Biz Collective membership & events.
She is an experienced facilitator and trainer, as well as a confident public speaker. Throughout the day, Corinne will be guiding you through questions and prompts to encourage you to consider what is important to you and what your version of success is; leading to a vision boarding activity in the afternoon.

Ruth Wallington, founder of Hello Ruth

Over the past 15+ years, Ruth has built a successful online business selling handmade cards and photo gifts. She sells on Not On The High Street and Etsy, as well as her own website.
Ruth has needed to adapt to many challenges and changes in consumer habits over the years, and has kept a clear focus on profit to ensure continued business success. Ruth has built her business to work around her family life.
She will tell us more about her business & experiences, and share with us what success means for her.

Carli Wall, founder of Business Bestie

Carli is a mentor, advisor, accountability partner and chief cheerleader, helping her clients to get stuff done and to run their small business in a way that works for them.
Carli chooses how to run her business and has set herself clear boundaries. Among others, she works mainly in person 1-2-1 and manages her time to take the majority of the school holidays off to spend time with her family.
She has successfully blocked out the “you should be doing this” to create a business that works for her, and that she enjoys running. Carli will share with us her own experience of how she has done this and her version of success.

Kristy Glenister, founder of 4cast Bookkeeping

Kristy is passionate about bookkeeping being more than just tax returns and financial admin. She works closely with her clients to help them understand their numbers so they can set achievable goals for their business (& life).
Kristy will share with us her own experience of setting up a business and the decisions she’s made along the way.
She will also be reminding us of the importance of knowing our numbers, which ones are most important to track and how these form part of your definition of success (even when your end goal isn’t financial).

What Our Attendees Say

This is our third year running this flagship event to celebrate International Women’s Day, here’s what some of our attendees said about our previous Female Founders Events…

Informative, inspiring and definitely worth the day out and the investment. I came away feeling invigorated.

Lisa, Gomm-Gomm Design

Female Founders Rise, 2023

Friendly, welcoming, no pressure, informative, enjoyable – networking at its friendliest!

Clare, BerkoThermo

Female Founders Shine, 2024

It’s a really positive event, a chance to network and hear from other female founders.

Rebecca, Weave Interiors

Female Founders Shine, 2024

I’d recommend any female founder to go along to this non-intimidating, friendly, joyful event! Corinne makes everyone so welcome and the whole day was a delight!

Anna, ADF Consultancy

Fmale Founders Shine, 2024

Really enlightening to take time away from the business to think about other things that still affect your work and day to day life. Great feeling of support and community, left cup feeling very full.

Tanya, Aldcroft Photography

Female Founders Rise, 2023

Our Sponsors

We’re so grateful to our Event Sponsor for supporting our event.

VAA Solutions

Helping you escape the admin jungle; VAA Solutions is your all-round administrative assistant. We allow you to truly focus on what you can do best with your business whilst we handle the delegation of your workload.

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Our Event Photography

We’re delighted to announce that for the third year running our event will be photographed by Aldcroft Photography.

Tanya is a family, branding and event photographer based in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire. She captures natural and genuine images with her relaxed lifestyle photography.

At the event Tanya is also offering some headshot slots. If you’re interested in getting an updated headshot then email Tanya for full details and to book in: tanya@aldcroft-photography.co.uk

Would you like to support this event?

We are looking for businesses to support our event through sponsorship or by contributing to our goody bag, in exchange for advertising opportunities across our channels. If you’d like to know more please fill in your details below to receive our Event Support pack and do get in touch so we can discuss further.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does my ticket include?

Your ticket includes everything you need for the day! You will receive refreshments and lunch at the venue, plus an exclusive goody bag.

I came last year, will it be the same?

No, with new speakers and a new venue it won’t the same – it will be better!

When sourcing the venue and organising the agenda we have taken on board feedback from last year. We have more interactive elements and more networking & discussion time with our Brew & Biz hour.

Can I park at the venue?

Yes there is ample parking at the venue.

What should I wear?

Absolutely anything you feel comfortable and confident in! We hope it’s going to be an inspirating and special event and is obviously a chance for a work day out, but there’s no dress code and we’re definitely not corporate!

The most important thing is for you to relax and enjoy the event.

What should I bring?

Yourself, plus a pen & paper.

We will have all the supplies needed to create your vision board but if you have any particular images that you feel you want to include then do bring these along. Also if you have any old magazines or materials we can cut up & use on the day then do bring these along too!

We’re not big fans of mass business card swapping but do bring some along so you can share with fellow attendees who would like to find out more and connect with you.

Who is the event for?

The event is designed for local female business owners. You may be a solopreneur, have a small team or freelance with other businesses.

I don’t like networking but am interested in the speakers.

Maybe you’ve been going to the wrong kind of networking events?!

Really the networking going on here will be chatting with other female founders over coffee & lunch. There won’t be any elevator pitches, selling or signing up to affiliate schemes.

The aim with all our events is to create a comfortable environment for business owners to connect with like minded people to support and learn from each other.

After I’ve bought my ticket can I cancel and get a refund?

I’m afraid we are unable to offer refunds on tickets purchased for Female Founders Succeed.

If you are no longer able to make it, you may transfer your ticket to someone else; just make sure you let us know change of details.

I’ve got some more questions…

Send me an email at corinne@chilternbizcollective.co.uk and I’ll get back to you ASAP!

I’d like to advertise my business at the event.

Get in touch with me at corinne@chilternbizcollective.co.uk and I can send you further details about our sponsorship packages.

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