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Welcome to our Inspiring Women Insight Summary

In honour of International Women's Day 2019, we are pleased to reveal 1,335 of Britain’s fastest growing businesses. Every single one of them led by a woman!

The median turnover of their businesses increased by 17% and 21% of them grew their turnover by 50% or more!

We wanted to celebrate the accomplishments of these women who drive the UK’s economic growth and who are outstanding role models to the next generation at the same time! Click here to download our 2019 Diversity Report which shares the stories of these extraordinary role models from up and down the country -- we hope you will choose to share!

Click on any of the areas below so you can locate the women in your community!

Bravo!

Women-led businesses in Local Authorities

See which women are running the leading businesses in your local authority

Name Women-led Businesses Growing >20% Growing >50%
Aberdeen City 4 1 1   Report
Aberdeenshire -- 0 0   Report
Adur -- 0 0   Report
Allerdale 1 0 0   Report
Amber Valley -- 0 0   Report
Angus -- 0 0   Report
Antrim and Newtownabbey -- 0 0   Report
Ards and North Down -- 0 0   Report
Argyll and Bute -- 0 0   Report
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon -- 0 0   Report
Arun -- 0 0   Report
Ashfield -- 0 0   Report
Ashford 1 1 1   Report
Aylesbury Vale 4 3 2   Report
Babergh -- 0 0   Report
Ballymena -- 0 0   Report
Barking and Dagenham -- 0 0   Report
Barnet 9 5 2   Report
Barnsley 3 0 0   Report
Barrow-in-Furness -- 0 0   Report
Basildon 1 0 0   Report
Basingstoke and Deane 2 2 1   Report
Bassetlaw 2 0 0   Report
Bath and North East Somerset 6 3 3   Report
Bedford 2 1 1   Report
Belfast 4 3 3   Report
Bexley 1 1 0   Report
Birmingham 11 6 2   Report
Blaby -- 0 0   Report
Blackburn with Darwen 1 1 1   Report
Blackpool 2 1 1   Report
Blaenau Gwent -- 0 0   Report
Bolsover -- 0 0   Report
Bolton 6 2 1   Report
Boston -- 0 0   Report
Bournemouth 4 2 0   Report
Bracknell Forest 2 2 2   Report
Bradford 5 2 1   Report
Braintree 4 2 1   Report
Breckland 2 1 0   Report
Brent 3 3 2   Report
Brentwood 2 2 2   Report
Bridgend -- 0 0   Report
Brighton and Hove 8 3 2   Report
Bristol, City of 9 5 3   Report
Broadland 2 0 0   Report
Bromley -- 0 0   Report
Bromsgrove -- 0 0   Report
Broxbourne 1 0 0   Report
Broxtowe 2 1 1   Report
Buckinghamshire -- 0 0   Report
Burnley -- 0 0   Report
Bury 2 2 2   Report
Caerphilly 1 0 0   Report
Calderdale 4 3 3   Report
Cambridge 16 12 9   Report
Camden 46 29 19   Report
Cannock Chase 2 1 1   Report
Canterbury 1 1 0   Report
Cardiff 1 0 0   Report
Carlisle -- 0 0   Report
Carmarthenshire -- 0 0   Report
Carrickfergus -- 0 0   Report
Castle Point -- 0 0   Report
Castlereagh -- 0 0   Report
Causeway Coast and Glens -- 0 0   Report
Central Bedfordshire 2 1 1   Report
Ceredigion -- 0 0   Report
Charnwood 2 1 1   Report
Chelmsford 3 3 1   Report
Cheltenham 1 0 0   Report
Cherwell 3 0 0   Report
Cheshire East 10 6 2   Report
Cheshire West and Chester 2 2 0   Report
Chesterfield 1 1 0   Report
Chichester 3 1 1   Report
Chiltern 6 4 2   Report
Chorley -- 0 0   Report
Christchurch -- 0 0   Report
City of Edinburgh 22 10 9   Report
City of London 54 23 13   Report
Clackmannanshire -- 0 0   Report
Colchester 1 1 0   Report
Coleraine -- 0 0   Report
Conwy -- 0 0   Report
Cookstown -- 0 0   Report
Copeland -- 0 0   Report
Corby -- 0 0   Report
Cornwall 2 1 1   Report
Cotswold 2 2 2   Report
County Durham 6 5 3   Report
Coventry 1 1 0   Report
Craigavon -- 0 0   Report
Craven 1 0 0   Report
Crawley -- 0 0   Report
Croydon 1 0 0   Report
Dacorum 1 0 0   Report
Darlington 1 0 0   Report
Dartford 1 1 1   Report
Daventry -- 0 0   Report
Denbighshire 1 0 0   Report
Derby 6 3 3   Report
Derbyshire Dales -- 0 0   Report
Derry City and Strabane -- 0 0   Report
Doncaster 2 2 2   Report
Dorset -- 0 0   Report
Dover 2 0 0   Report
Dudley 2 0 0   Report
Dumfries and Galloway 1 0 0   Report
Dundee City 2 0 0   Report
Ealing -- 0 0   Report
East Ayrshire 2 2 2   Report
Eastbourne 1 0 0   Report
East Cambridgeshire 1 1 0   Report
East Devon -- 0 0   Report
East Dorset 1 0 0   Report
East Dunbartonshire -- 0 0   Report
East Hampshire 1 1 0   Report
East Hertfordshire 3 2 1   Report
Eastleigh 4 3 1   Report
East Lindsey 1 0 0   Report
East Lothian 2 1 1   Report
East Northamptonshire 1 0 0   Report
East Renfrewshire 2 2 1   Report
East Riding of Yorkshire 3 3 1   Report
East Staffordshire -- 0 0   Report
Eden 1 1 0   Report
Eilean Siar -- 0 0   Report
Elmbridge 6 2 0   Report
Enfield 3 2 2   Report
Epping Forest 2 2 1   Report
Epsom and Ewell -- 0 0   Report
Erewash 1 0 0   Report
Exeter 6 2 0   Report
Falkirk 1 0 0   Report
Fareham 1 1 0   Report
Fenland -- 0 0   Report
Fermanagh and Omagh -- 0 0   Report
Fife -- 0 0   Report
Fife 1 1 0   Report
Fife -- 0 0   Report
Flintshire -- 0 0   Report
Forest Heath 2 0 0   Report
Forest of Dean -- 0 0   Report
Fylde 1 1 1   Report
Gateshead 3 0 0   Report
Gedling 1 1 0   Report
Glasgow City 22 11 8   Report
Glasgow City -- 0 0   Report
Gloucester -- 0 0   Report
Gosport -- 0 0   Report
Gravesham -- 0 0   Report
Great Yarmouth 1 1 1   Report
Greenwich 1 1 1   Report
Guildford 1 1 0   Report
Gwynedd -- 0 0   Report
Hackney 8 4 4   Report
Halton 2 2 2   Report
Hambleton 1 1 1   Report
Hammersmith and Fulham 15 7 7   Report
Harborough 3 2 1   Report
Haringey 1 0 0   Report
Harlow -- 0 0   Report
Harrogate 4 2 1   Report
Harrow 3 0 0   Report
Hart -- 0 0   Report
Hartlepool -- 0 0   Report
Hastings -- 0 0   Report
Havant 2 0 0   Report
Havering -- 0 0   Report
Herefordshire, County of -- 0 0   Report
Hertsmere -- 0 0   Report
Highland 2 0 0   Report
High Peak -- 0 0   Report
Hillingdon 2 1 1   Report
Hinckley and Bosworth -- 0 0   Report
Horsham -- 0 0   Report
Hounslow 3 1 0   Report
Huntingdonshire 4 2 1   Report
Hyndburn 1 1 0   Report
Inverclyde -- 0 0   Report
Ipswich 1 0 0   Report
Isle of Anglesey -- 0 0   Report
Isle of Wight 1 0 0   Report
Isles of Scilly -- 0 0   Report
Islington 22 16 10   Report
Kensington and Chelsea 6 5 3   Report
Kettering 1 1 1   Report
King's Lynn and West Norfolk 1 0 0   Report
Kingston upon Hull, City of 1 1 0   Report
Kingston upon Thames 3 3 1   Report
Kirklees 3 3 1   Report
Knowsley -- 0 0   Report
Lambeth 8 4 4   Report
Lancaster 2 2 1   Report
Leeds 19 11 6   Report
Leicester 4 3 1   Report
Lewes -- 0 0   Report
Lewisham 1 0 0   Report
Lichfield 3 3 2   Report
Limavady -- 0 0   Report
Lincoln 1 1 1   Report
Lisburn -- 0 0   Report
Lisburn and Castlereagh -- 0 0   Report
Liverpool 2 1 0   Report
Luton 2 1 0   Report
Maidstone 2 1 1   Report
Maldon -- 0 0   Report
Malvern Hills 1 1 1   Report
Manchester 16 11 7   Report
Mansfield -- 0 0   Report
Medway 2 1 1   Report
Melton 1 1 0   Report
Mendip 3 1 1   Report
Merthyr Tydfil 1 1 1   Report
Merton 3 3 2   Report
Mid and East Antrim -- 0 0   Report
Mid Devon 2 2 1   Report
Middlesbrough -- 0 0   Report
Midlothian -- 0 0   Report
Mid Suffolk -- 0 0   Report
Mid Sussex -- 0 0   Report
Mid Ulster -- 0 0   Report
Milton Keynes 6 3 1   Report
Mole Valley 2 1 1   Report
Monmouthshire -- 0 0   Report
Moray -- 0 0   Report
Na h-Eileanan Siar -- 0 0   Report
Neath Port Talbot 2 1 0   Report
Newark and Sherwood -- 0 0   Report
Newcastle-under-Lyme 3 1 1   Report
Newcastle upon Tyne 5 1 0   Report
New Forest 7 5 2   Report
Newham 1 0 0   Report
Newport 1 0 0   Report
Newry, Mourne and Down -- 0 0   Report
Northampton 2 1 1   Report
North Ayrshire -- 0 0   Report
North Devon 3 2 0   Report
North Dorset -- 0 0   Report
North Down -- 0 0   Report
North East Derbyshire -- 0 0   Report
North East Lincolnshire 1 1 1   Report
North Hertfordshire 3 1 1   Report
North Kesteven -- 0 0   Report
North Lanarkshire 3 1 1   Report
North Lanarkshire -- 0 0   Report
North Lincolnshire -- 0 0   Report
North Norfolk 1 0 0   Report
North Somerset 3 1 1   Report
North Tyneside 1 1 1   Report
Northumberland 2 0 0   Report
North Warwickshire -- 0 0   Report
North West Leicestershire 1 0 0   Report
Norwich 2 0 0   Report
Nottingham 7 4 2   Report
Nuneaton and Bedworth 1 1 0   Report
Oadby and Wigston -- 0 0   Report
Oldham 2 1 1   Report
Orkney Islands -- 0 0   Report
Oxford 4 1 1   Report
Pembrokeshire -- 0 0   Report
Pendle -- 0 0   Report
Perth and Kinross -- 0 0   Report
Perth and Kinross 1 1 1   Report
Peterborough 9 6 4   Report
Plymouth 5 5 2   Report
Poole -- 0 0   Report
Portsmouth 1 0 0   Report
Powys -- 0 0   Report
Preston 2 2 1   Report
Purbeck 1 1 1   Report
Reading 2 2 0   Report
Redbridge 1 1 1   Report
Redcar and Cleveland -- 0 0   Report
Redditch 2 1 0   Report
Reigate and Banstead 3 2 2   Report
Renfrewshire 2 0 0   Report
Rhondda Cynon Taf 1 0 0   Report
Ribble Valley -- 0 0   Report
Richmondshire -- 0 0   Report
Richmond upon Thames 4 4 3   Report
Rochdale -- 0 0   Report
Rochford -- 0 0   Report
Rossendale -- 0 0   Report
Rother -- 0 0   Report
Rotherham 2 0 0   Report
Rugby 2 1 1   Report
Runnymede 3 1 1   Report
Rushcliffe 3 2 1   Report
Rushmoor -- 0 0   Report
Rutland -- 0 0   Report
Ryedale -- 0 0   Report
Salford 3 1 0   Report
Sandwell 5 4 3   Report
Scarborough -- 0 0   Report
Scottish Borders -- 0 0   Report
Sedgemoor -- 0 0   Report
Sefton 2 1 1   Report
Selby 1 1 0   Report
Sevenoaks 2 1 0   Report
Sheffield 11 5 5   Report
Shepway -- 0 0   Report
Shetland Islands -- 0 0   Report
Shropshire 1 1 1   Report
Slough 2 0 0   Report
Solihull 3 2 2   Report
Southampton 1 1 1   Report
South Ayrshire -- 0 0   Report
South Bucks 3 2 2   Report
South Cambridgeshire 6 2 1   Report
South Derbyshire -- 0 0   Report
Southend-on-Sea 1 0 0   Report
South Gloucestershire 2 1 0   Report
South Hams -- 0 0   Report
South Holland -- 0 0   Report
South Kesteven 2 1 1   Report
South Lakeland 2 1 1   Report
South Lanarkshire 1 1 0   Report
South Norfolk 1 1 1   Report
South Northamptonshire -- 0 0   Report
South Oxfordshire 2 0 0   Report
South Ribble -- 0 0   Report
South Somerset 1 1 0   Report
South Staffordshire -- 0 0   Report
South Tyneside -- 0 0   Report
Southwark 18 10 7   Report
Spelthorne -- 0 0   Report
Stafford 1 1 0   Report
Staffordshire Moorlands -- 0 0   Report
St Albans 6 6 3   Report
St Edmundsbury 3 2 1   Report
Stevenage -- 0 0   Report
St. Helens 2 2 2   Report
Stirling 4 3 2   Report
Stockport 2 1 0   Report
Stockton-on-Tees 1 0 0   Report
Stoke-on-Trent 3 1 0   Report
Stratford-on-Avon 2 1 1   Report
Stroud 2 2 1   Report
Suffolk Coastal 2 1 0   Report
Sunderland 1 0 0   Report
Surrey Heath 2 1 1   Report
Sutton 2 2 2   Report
Swale 2 1 1   Report
Swansea 2 1 1   Report
Swindon 1 1 1   Report
Tameside 1 1 1   Report
Tamworth 1 1 1   Report
Tandridge 1 0 0   Report
Taunton Deane 4 1 1   Report
Teignbridge 6 6 3   Report
Telford and Wrekin -- 0 0   Report
Tendring -- 0 0   Report
Test Valley 2 0 0   Report
Tewkesbury 1 0 0   Report
Thanet 1 0 0   Report
Three Rivers 3 3 3   Report
Thurrock 1 0 0   Report
Tonbridge and Malling 2 2 2   Report
Torbay 2 1 0   Report
Torfaen 2 0 0   Report
Torridge -- 0 0   Report
Tower Hamlets 17 10 9   Report
Trafford 1 1 0   Report
Tunbridge Wells 2 1 1   Report
Uttlesford 3 1 0   Report
Vale of Glamorgan -- 0 0   Report
Vale of White Horse 3 1 1   Report
Wakefield 2 0 0   Report
Walsall 1 0 0   Report
Waltham Forest -- 0 0   Report
Wandsworth 4 2 1   Report
Warrington 3 2 2   Report
Warwick -- 0 0   Report
Watford 1 0 0   Report
Waveney 1 0 0   Report
Waverley 6 4 3   Report
Wealden -- 0 0   Report
Wellingborough 1 0 0   Report
Welwyn Hatfield 4 3 1   Report
West Berkshire 5 2 2   Report
West Devon -- 0 0   Report
West Dorset 1 0 0   Report
West Dunbartonshire 1 1 1   Report
West Lancashire 1 1 0   Report
West Lindsey 1 1 0   Report
West Lothian 1 1 0   Report
Westminster 76 51 41   Report
West Oxfordshire 1 0 0   Report
West Somerset -- 0 0   Report
Weymouth and Portland -- 0 0   Report
Wigan 1 0 0   Report
Wiltshire 4 1 1   Report
Winchester 4 1 0   Report
Windsor and Maidenhead 5 1 1   Report
Wirral -- 0 0   Report
Woking -- 0 0   Report
Wokingham 3 3 2   Report
Wolverhampton 1 0 0   Report
Worcester 1 0 0   Report
Worthing 2 1 1   Report
Wrexham -- 0 0   Report
Wychavon 2 2 2   Report
Wycombe 11 9 6   Report
Wyre -- 0 0   Report
Wyre Forest -- 0 0   Report
York 4 4 2   Report

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