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NWEW
NWEW is a UK-wide campaign founded by Alison Cork MBE to celebrate and promote female entrepreneurship, encouraging support for female-led businesses.
Overview
What NWEW does
What NWEW is
NWEW is a UK-wide campaign founded by Alison Cork MBE to celebrate and promote female entrepreneurship, encouraging support for female-led businesses.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
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Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- April 13, 2026
Official channels
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Capability profile
NWEW as a community
Community overview
National Women's Enterprise Week (NWEW) is a non-profit initiative founded by Alison Cork MBE in partnership with the British Library Business & IP Centre National Network. It aims to support and celebrate female entrepreneurs in the UK. The initiative was established to address the significant funding gap faced by female-led businesses, with the next event scheduled for June 16th-20th, 2025.
Community focus
NWEW focuses on empowering female entrepreneurs, particularly those starting small businesses. The initiative emphasizes the importance of supporting start-ups over scale-ups, as small businesses play a crucial role in local economies and contribute to financial independence for their owners. NWEW aims to create a supportive infrastructure for female entrepreneurs through events, resources, and mentorship.
Member value
Members gain access to exclusive resources, mentorship, and opportunities to pitch to venture capitalists and angel investors through the NWEW Accelerator Programme. The initiative also provides a supportive community and celebrates the achievements of female entrepreneurs.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
- Next recorded event
- June 16, 2025
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Students
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- accelerator and community
- Selection criteria
- open and application
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed
- Regions
- United Kingdom
Community activity
Events and activity
NWEW hosts a week-long celebration for female entrepreneurs, with events and activities scheduled across the UK. The next National Women’s Enterprise Week will take place from June 16th to 20th, 2025.
Notable members
Notable participants from the 2024 Accelerator Programme include Eko Botanicals, Beatrice Larkin, Give Your Best, Clear, Mena-Pause, Curly Girl Method, Bare Kind, This is Silk, OVUM, and Real Good Ketchup.
Common questions
What to know about NWEW
Upseed classifies NWEW under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
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Last reviewed
April 13, 2026
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