Barclays Eagle Labs - Female Founders Connections Call

Now’s the time to make a cup of tea and get ready to join Barclays Eagle Labs at 12pm on Tuesday 19th of April – In order to connect with some amazing women within the Eagle Labs & Rise Network.

Barclays Eagle Labs have decided to loop in female founders from Brighton, Bournemouth, Edinburgh, Leeds, Aberdeen, Cumbria, Sheffield and Newcastle

The aim of the Female Founders Connections Call:

• Connect Female Founders throughout the Eagle Lab & Rise Networks
• Create a safe and relaxed space for Female Founders to share problems and support each other
• Although it is a Female Founder's call, everyone is welcome to join, support and learn more about the achievements and goals

The speaker will be Rachel Watkyn Founder of The Tiny Box Company

Rachel started her company from scratch in 2007, now Tiny Box Company is the UK’s largest online gift packaging e-commerce company with over 700 products and over 120,000 customers - ranging from one-person start-ups to international corporations. Trauma in her personal life prepared Rachel for the struggles of business.  

Rachel spent her formative years in care after a traumatic early childhood. Whilst working in Sierra Leone during the military coup, the extreme poverty she witnessed drove her vision for a Fairtrade business. This began as a jewellery company, but her struggle to find recycled and environmentally friendly packaging sparked the idea for Tiny Box Company, supplying businesses with attractive, ethical packaging. Against a backdrop of difficulties including cancer, fire, flooding, an IT hack, and now Covid-19, she has grown Tiny Box to a thriving company and is Dragon’s Den’s most successful female ‘dragon’ to date.

She has been featured on BBC radio, The Daily Mail, The Times  as well as many business and trade magazines and is the winner of the NatWest Everywoman Award 2020 and the Rural Business Award 2020.  

Dial-in details will be sent to registered attendees approx. 1 hour prior to the event.