Women & Home - Article on Women in 50's who have changed career & set up new business
I’m currently working on a feature on women in their 50s who have recently changed career and set up a new business. I was wondering if you know anyone you would be suitable/interested in taking part? The theme of the piece is overcoming, so ideally they would have started their new business as a result of some sort of misfortune – bereavement, illness or redundancy for example.
Emma Pritchard
Features Assistant
Woman & Home
Blue Fin Building
110 Southwark Street
London SE1 0SU
020 3148 7839
Cosmopolitan's Ultimate Women of the Year Awards
August 17th 2008 - Deadline for nominations.
I'm writing to inform you that we have just one week left for nominations for Cosmopolitan's Ultimate Women of the Year Awards, and we would love it if you could let your members know that we are still looking for inspirational men and women of all kinds to be nominated.
Last year, categories included Businesswoman, so it would be fantastic if you could pass on news of these prestigious and high-profile awards. Nominations can be made by sending as many of the following as possible to ultimatewomen@natmags.co.uk by 17th August:
Nominee's name
Nominee's age
Where they are from
Details of their achievements in around 150 words.
If you need further details, I can be called on 0207 439 5445.
Rosie Mullender
Senior Features Writer
Cosmopolitan
72 Broadwick Street
London
W1F 9EP
0207 439 5445
Woman & Home - Article on women who have lost everthing - and achieved it back!
Deadline: 22nd August 2008
I’m now trying to find women in their 40s or 50s who lost everything – their home, their job – during the last recession but have come it through to have a lovely new home and thriving business in the face of the current economic situation.
I know it’s quite specific but if you know anyone who fits the bill that would be great!
Many thanks,
Emma Pritchard
Features Assistant
Woman & Home Magazine
Blue Fin Building
110 Southwark Street
London SE1 0SU
020 3148 7839
ITV - House Guest Programme - looking for contestants from Chelmsford area
My name’s Mel and I work on the ITV daytime programme, “House Guest”. I’m looking for contestants from around Chelmsford for the second series which we will be filming in the week beginning 22nd September 2008.
Contestants spend four of the five evenings attending dinner parties and one evening is spent hosting their own dinner party. The twist is that each night, one lucky guest will stay overnight.
We are looking for interesting hosts with interesting homes who enjoy entertaining new guests. I was wondering whether you or your family or friends may be interested in taking part?
PLUMP UP YOUR PILLOWS!!
The hit ITV1 series HOUSE GUEST is coming to CHELMSFORD!!
We’re looking for couples to take on the ultimate hosting challenge – dinner, bed and breakfast!
Over the week, each couple will take turns to host an evening of great food and entertainment.
Then it’s feather down duvets, hot water bottles and mugs of cocoa, because one of the guests will be staying the night!
The winners bag a BIG CASH PRIZE!
We’re looking for couples who love to entertain - you could be married, related, work-mates, friends, or in any other partnership…!
If you’re interested in taking part in HOUSE GUEST we’d love to hear from you on:
Tel: 0207 157 4602
Or email: HouseGuest@ITV.com
www.itv.com/houseguest
The Use of Technology to help your business - Is this you?
I am a freelance journalist writing a new regular piece for the Sunday Telegraph, which should start on the first Sunday of September.
It's going to be a series of case studies of small businesses using technology somehow - maybe someone has gone to the Web to increase their business, maybe someone's reduced their carbon footprint, anything at all.
I thought WIBN might be a good source of small business contacts - I wondered whether any of your members might consider themselves
suitable, and put themselves forward for this sort of thing?
If they feel they can contribute, please contact me directly on :
Thanks
Guy Clapperton
020 8653 6151
New Observational Documentary - Channel 4 - wealthy family to support and mentor underprivileged family
Request Submitted: 30th Sept 08
Deadline: ASAP
The makers of Secret Millionaire are looking for a charitable, wealthy family interested in supporting and mentoring an underprivileged family.
The UK has one of the worst child poverty rates in the industrialised world - 3.9 million children are living in poverty in the UK.
Would you and your children be interested in getting to know another family and help them improve their quality of life?
We are making a new, groundbreaking, observational documentary that will look inside the world of child poverty and the economic divide in England.
If you are interested or would like to learn more about our program please feel free to contact:
Telephone Meghan: 0207-013-4556
Email: meghan.just-truelove@rdftelevision.com
Are you struggling with your work / life balance?
Do your children think that you work too hard?
Are they always moaning about the long hours you spend at work?
Love Productions, makers of the Baby Borrowers, would like to ask kids what they would do if they got control of their parents’ hectic schedules.
We would like to talk to children aged between 8 – 17 as part of our research for a new TV series.
If you think your child would have some funny and interesting opinions on how they would change your work / life balance, please get in touch with me via email on jenny.brown@loveproductions.co.uk or call 020 7067 4867.
At this stage, there is no commitment to take part and no footage will be shown on TV.
Column for a Sunday National
I am interested in hearing of young (5yrs old or less), entrepreneurial businesses for a regular column in a major Sunday National. Ideally, these should be consumer-facing, with really innovative services or products. Absolutely no technology stories, please.
Request Submitted: 1st November 2008
From: Jenny Hirschkorn
Tel: 020 8445 0833
Mobile: 07802 243490
Email: jenny@hirschkorn.com
Easy Living Magazine - Have you been fired from a job? Was it the catalyst to go onto something new and exciting?
Request : 12th November 2008
Deadline: 4 weeks
I work on Easy Living magazine and thought I’d get in touch as you may know of lots of great women who'd be interested in taking part in a feature I'm working on.
The piece – which will run in our March issue – is all about how being fired from your job can be a positive catalyst.
I’ll be including interviews with five women who have gone on to have fabulous, fulfilling careers after being been fired from / loosing their job...Perhaps they've gone on to write a best selling novel, start up a successful business or retrained to do a job they really love. What ever the story; I'd love to hear about it.
The piece will consist of beautiful portraits of each of the women, alongside short interviews and tips from each of them on how to make the most of a career change. It's a good place to plug a brilliant new business / book / good causes etc
Specifically I’m looking for women between the ages of 25-60 who are available to take part in a photo shoot in London over the next four weeks. All expenses will of course be covered by us.
Vishaka Read
Features Associate
Easy Living Magazine
6-8 Old Bond Street
W1S 4PH
Direct Line: 020 7399 2605 |
