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Profile Information
- Company Name
- The Enterprise Agency for Wear Valley & Teesdale
- Job Title
- Marketing Adviser
- About Me:
- Born in the North East of England, I went to school at Croft House Hexham, then Dame Allens Newcastle. At University I studied International Business with French, in Liverpool and spent the 3rd year of my degree at IPAG, Nice. Since graduating I have worked in New Media, IT, Professional Services, Tourism, Manufacturing and Engineering.
My digital media interest and experience stems from 1997 when I joined a small team called Amaze which backed by venture capitalists span out from Liverpool John Moores University, as Production Director at www.amaze.co.uk we grew the team from 7 to 120 staff by 2001 and were generating annual turnover of £10 million. Client included Saatchi, PWC and VW.
I came back to the North East in 2002 where I met and married Martin, we have a daughter Lucy and live in Gainford where we are surrounded by generations of both sides of our family.
- About My Business:
- I work for The Enterprise Agency, a not-for-profit social enterprise, and award winning economic development agency. We support local people starting up in business, improving company performance, e-enabling businesses, and creating and managing communications tools to benefit rurally based, small, family run companies.
I am a founder director of Radio Teesdale, www.radioteesdale.co.uk we were amongst the first Community stations in the UK to secure one of the newly available permanent broadcast licences and to start full time broadcast. The station is run by a team of 60 volunteer members, broadcasting 24/7 to a local population of 24,000, currently 4,000 of whom listen to the station online.
I run a collaborative marketing website www.milliondollarwomen.co.uk which encouarges and promotes particularly good online boutiques, specialist and independent shops. Million Dollar Women won the Best Business to Consumer website at the North East Digital Awards.
I am a Digital Fellowship Mentor at the Institute of Digital Innovation, Teeside University www.digitalcityfellowships.org
I am a Board Member of Durham County Council's Teesdale Action Partnership representing Business. www.durham.gov.uk/Pages/Service.aspx?ServiceId=6502
- Website:
- http://www.milliondollarwomen.co.uk
- LinkedIn Profile Address:
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottestow
- Twitter Address:
- http://twitter.com/charlottestow
- Blog Address:
- http://www.milliondollarwomen.co.uk/news.asp
Comment Wall (47 comments)
- At 5:23pm on November 17, 2009,
Alastair Dinwiddie said… - hmmm! You tracking me?
- At 4:09pm on September 25, 2009,
Jeffrey Iveson said…
- Hi Charlotte thanks for the welcome, really looking foreward to meeting new people with new ideas which will help me along.
Jeffrey
- At 3:52pm on August 7, 2009,
Ivor Stolliday said… - Charlotte, thank you so much. You really are a star. My head is reeling with so much info - but I have made a start by joining the Enterprise Agency , as you see, for Kindling, and b-older next.
Thanks again
Ivor
- At 5:07pm on May 22, 2009,
David Pattison said… - Hi Charlotte
I have been finding my way around ok so far, but I must schedule some more time in to have a good look around.
It is a great Forum!
Thanks
David
- At 2:59pm on May 22, 2009,
Alan Murray said… - Hi Charlotte,
I joined 'cos I worked in Barnard Castle last year and really enjoyed it. I have an interest in the area and like to keep track of developments. Any queries to me? no Problem ! I'll try and help.
AlanM
- At 2:25pm on April 27, 2009,
Cliff Edwards said… - Thanks Charlotte - its good to join up. and good for all of us to talk...
Cliff.
- At 6:03pm on March 31, 2009,
Stephanie Grant said… - Hi there Charlotte,
Thanks for your comment, I did think this was the photo you edited ?
Thanks for resizing it.
Steph
- At 11:21am on March 27, 2009,
Teresa Perry said…
- Thank you Charlotte
- At 2:01pm on March 24, 2009,
Vic Thompson said… - Hi Charlotte
Thank you for your welcome message Vic
- At 3:35pm on March 23, 2009,
John Angus said… - Hi Charlotte
Its great to be able to joing the forum and thanks for the prompt about the introductions section.
Oops and thanks you so much for inviting me as a friend.
John
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