Workingmums.co.uk - connecting mums and employers

About us

WorkingMums.co.uk is brought to you by a small team of working parents. Founded by working mum Gillian Nissim, the team at Working Mums know what its like to try and find jobs and business opportunities that are challenging and rewarding, but which also offer flexibility. As employers, we also know that it is not always easy to find really good, experienced and committed people on a part-time basis, or for a short-term project cost effectively.

As parents, we’ve experienced the issues associated with going back to work after an extended period at home, suffered crises of confidence, undergone career changes and managed (and are still managing) our way through the ups and downs of combining parenthood with work we enjoy.

That's why we're building a database of jobs, employers and business opportunities that offers alternatives to traditional 9-5, Monday to Friday roles. It’s also why WorkingMums.co.uk offers much more than jobs and business opportunities. From information and advice, news and working mums' blogs, we're building a community of working mums across the country - sharing news, views, experiences and information with working mums everywhere.

Dads and carers ....

While working mums are what we know about best, we hope that Dads and other carers will also find the jobs and information on our website relevant and useful to them too . WorkingMums.co.uk welcomes Dads, carers and other flexible job seekers.

Who we are:

Gillian Nissim - Founder
A former Senior Communications Executive, Gillian realised when she started a family that there was a huge potential in connecting employers who need skilled professionals on a part time or temporary basis and mums who want a degree of flexibility in their jobs to maximise the time they can spend with their children.

Having worked at a number of different organisations with very different cultures and attitudes towards family friendly working policies, Gillian decided to set up her own company to cater for the businesses who did appreciate the vast experience and high calibre of professionals who had become mums and wanted to find challenging and interesting jobs that offered more flexibility than traditional office-based Monday- Friday, 9-5 jobs. A graduate of Birmingham University, Gillian lives with her husband and two boys (aged six and four) in North London.

Jill Purcell, Key Account Manager
Jill joined WorkingMums in September 2008 after a short career break from 10 years in Business Development in the Marketing industry, where developed and ran large scale consumer marketing campaigns for clients including Capital One, Phones 4 U and Mars Foods.  Jill appreciates the huge talents that working mums offer and is driving this concept through with key recruiters in the private sector.  Jill is a busy working mum herself with two lively sons aged five and three.

Rachael Wenham, Key Account Manager - Franchise
Rachael joined WorkingMums in 2007 after having her second child. Prior to this she spent five years working in recruitment and four years managing a team where she was the recruiter. She has two children, a son of seven and a daughter aged two.

Mandy Garner, Web Editor
Before WorkingMums, Mandy was features editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement for nearly eight years and is a freelance journalist/editor. She has three children, aged nine, six and four and lives in Essex.

Annika Williams, Marketing
Annika joined WorkingMums in 2007 after spending nine years as the marketing manager at a publicly quoted Media and Events company. A marketing graduate from Leeds University Business School, Annika has two daughters aged six and 7 months, and lives and works in Bedfordshire.

Arline Wilkins, Marketing
A Chartered Marketer, Arline has over ten years experience working across the marketing mix, in both the public and private sector. Arline has a one year old son and works from home in Leamington Spa.

Tarryn Rothstein - Team Co-Ordinator
Tarryn joined working mums early in 2008. With her background in sales and having worked for Douwe Egberts for eight years coupled with her extensive PC skills, Tarryn now co-ordinates many of the day to day workingmums tasks. Tarryn lives with her husband and two young boys in Hertfordshire.

Wide Area Communications, website building, hosting and maintenance
Wide Area Communications is a web development company producing solutions for businesses, large and small and shares the flexible working ethos that underpins the success of workingmums.co.uk.

Over the past ten years we have delivered a range of e-commerce and web content solutions that let you create an effective on-line presence that doesn't cost the earth to set up, can be controlled in-house but does not require any any technical expertise, and, best of all, provides the infrastructure you need to generate income from your web site. You can find out more about our products by visiting www.widearea.co.uk

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WorkingMums.co.uk is the trading name of Working Mums Limited. Company No. 5714476. VAT registration no: 877 6054 83.