Rebecca Garrett to speak at Leading Women UK event

Multi award-winning city businesswoman Rebecca Garrett will be guest speaker at this month’s Leading Women UK networking meeting in Plymouth.

Rebecca, who founded and runs Rebecca Garrett Media, is due to to be the inspirational speaker at the relaunched lunchtime network at the city’s Rockfish restaurant on Monday.

Rebecca, who won the 2014 Natwest Venus Devon Award for New Media and Online Business and the Western Morning News Small Business of the Year award, will be sharing her experiences of setting up and running her own business, plus answering questions about business marketing.

Rebecca Garrett Media is based at state-of-the-art offices in Plymouth Science Park and is growing rapidly, adding to their already impressive portfolio of brands, titles, TV companies, online activity and encompassing national coverage for the very best competition and promotional activity.

Rachel Jones, founder of Leading Women UK, said: “Rebecca’s story is one of strength in adversity and her sparkling career one that we all can learn from. I’m delighted that she has agreed to join our relaunched Plymouth lunchtime network and can’t wait to hear more from this very inspirational businesswoman.”

Leading Women UK is the fastest-growing all-female networking group in the South West with branches in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. It was founded by serial entrepreneur Rachel Jones in Cornwall and helps women in business through peer-to-peer support, networking, workshops, talks, conferences and inspirational speeches.

The Plymouth network will be held at Mitch Tonks’ Rockfish Restaurant beside the National Marine Aquarium at the new meeting time of 12:30 to 2pm. Rockfish will kindly be providing snacks for attendees. For more information on the event or on Leading Women UK please visit www.leadingwomenuk.com