6 Fabulous Female-Led Businesses
Check out these amazing local women from our Women in Business feature spread across our August edition.
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Empowering Your Financial Future
Lisa Lloyd-Franks is a Financial Planner specialising in helping women through divorce settlements.
Tell us about your role as a Financial Planner.
As a Financial Planner with over 30 years’ experience, I help clients make informed decisions about investments, pensions and cash flow forecasting, enabling them to achieve their long term financial goals. I specialise in supporting women through significant life transitions, including divorce, bereavement and retirement, with tailored personal financial planning.
Why do women dealing with divorce settlements need a Financial Planner?
Divorce is one of life’s biggest financial turning points. As a Financial Planner, I help women navigate this uncertain time by understanding the long-term implications of decisions around pensions, investments and property. This ensures a settlement supports both immediate needs and future financial security. Early advice provides clarity and confidence.
07966 172540 | bespoke-advice.com | lisalloyd-franks@bespoke-advice.com
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The Missing Piece of the Renovation Puzzle
Ellora Coupe founded Her Own Space CIC to help women homeowners discover how retrofit can create healthier, more comfortable homes.
What was the inspiration behind founding the business?
Too often women spend years planning renovations without realising retrofit could make them healthier, more comfortable and cheaper to run. We help women ask the right questions before expensive decisions are made and look beyond confusing or misleading industry claims and poor standards.
Why is it important for women to have a community like this?
The insulation materials you use, and the building approach you take, can mean the difference between a home that overheats in summer and feels draughty in winter, and one that is healthy, comfortable and climate resilient.
I believe a trusted, independent community supporting women to manage renovations to a higher standard is long overdue.
Instagram: @herownspaceuk | herownspace.com
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Where Learning and Wellbeing Come Together
Sylwia Wisniewska provides specialist SEN Education and Craniosacral Therapy
Tell us a bit about yourself.
I am a specialist SEN tutor and qualified craniosacral therapist with 20 years of experience supporting neurodivergent children and their families. I provide bespoke tutoring, home education, EOTAS, in school support and craniosacral therapy, so you can feel confident your child is receiving personalised support tailored to their individual strengths, interests and needs.
What inspired you to found The Odd Socks Way?
I founded The Odd Socks Way because I wanted the freedom to work differently, without the constraints of a one size fits all approach. Whether your child needs a different approach to learning or support with nervous system regulation, I help them build confidence, develop resilience and discover that learning can feel safe, enjoyable and achievable.
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Championing Art in Surrey
How Carol Caiger from Art Surrey brings people together through art.
Carol’s passion is bringing people together through art and creating opportunities for artists to thrive. As a Co-Founder and Director of Art Surrey, a successful art fair held annually at Sandown Park and Epsom Downs, she has helped it to become one of the biggest art fairs in the South East. Offering a welcoming and supportive creative community, she connects artists with art collectors and art lovers alike. Carol believes art has the power to inspire, spark conversation and make a difference to people’s lives and this enthusiasm has made Art Surrey the centre of Surrey’s vibrant art scene.
The next Art Surrey art fair is at Epsom Downs Racecourse 2 – 4 October. Use code TLAUG for 50% discounted weekend entry artsurrey.co.uk/tickets
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A Village in Your Pocket
Founder Molly Aldridge on creating the ultimate app for modern family life
What led you to founding the business?
Becoming a mum to two boys, Jake and Joshua, changed my perspective. I longed for a community and space that catered for the whole family to work, rest and play on our doorstep in SW London. One trusted place where everything came together. That lived experience led me to launch The JJ Club – a members’ club designed to make family life easier through recommendations, meaningful connections, events and exclusive benefits. Our mobile app is exactly that – a village in your pocket – and next year we’ll open our first 30,000 sq ft clubhouse, the cornerstone of our 25,000-strong community.
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Nourish from Within
Laura Capewell, founder of award-winning British wellness brand Arella, shares her story
Tell us a bit about you and the business.
I founded Arella after experiencing first-hand the difference that good nutrition can make to health and wellbeing. My ambition was to create a wellness brand that people could feel confident choosing, with carefully developed formulations that support different stages of life. Today, our award-winning supplements range includes Arella Collagen, Arella Pause and Arella Skin.
What makes Arella unique from other wellness brands?
Consumers are becoming far more discerning about what they put into their bodies. They’re increasingly interested in understanding not just what ingredients they’re taking, but how they work together to support long-term health. Every Arella formulation combines carefully selected plant-based ingredients with credible science to create clean, effective products that fit naturally into everyday life.
