Based in Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, NorthEdge’s Investment Team has 150 years’ experience in private equity and several Partners have worked together for approaching 20 years.
International Women’s Day 2024
Today marks International Women’s Day – a movement dedicated to creating an equal world. The theme for this year is ‘Inspire Inclusion’ and the aim is to campaign for a world which is more inclusive for women and underrepresented groups. Whilst the day celebrates the achievements of women, it also serves as a call for change to promote women’s equality and strive for a gender equal world, as well as encouraging the need for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) more broadly. The 2023 Rose Review into Female Entrepreneurship demonstrated that up to £250 billion of new value could be added to the UK economy if women started and scaled new businesses at the same rate as UK men. BlackRock’s 2023 report on ‘Lifting financial performance by investing in women’ states