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Nottingham entrepreneur named one of 2025's most impressive female founders

Tara Askham of Bakersfield, Nottingham has been crowned one of the UK's most impressive female entrepreneurs by Small Business Britain's ‘f:Entrepreneur #IAlso100' campaign.

Tara Askham, who founded TKA Finance Training, is being profiled among 100 inspirational female entrepreneurs from across the country, as part of the campaign to celebrate the multi-achievements of women running businesses in the UK today.  

The f:Entrepreneur ‘#IAlso100' line-up particularly showcases trailblazing female founders who lead purpose-driven businesses alongside a roster of other responsibilities, such as volunteering, mentoring and community support.

Indeed, Tara was also called out for  her mentoring work with Santander Women in Business, UnLtd and the Government Help to Grow Scheme with Enterprise Nation. She is a published author, volunteer funding panel member NatWest Charity S&CC and is a subject matter expert to global accounting awarding bodies.

On being featured in the #ialso100 lineup, Tara said: "I am honored to be recognised as part of the #iAlso100. My mission is to cut through the jargon and demystify accounting and finance for non-finance managers, entrepreneurs, and business owners. Through interactive courses and real-life case studies, I empowers decision-makers to confidently navigate financial concepts like profit and loss accounts and balance sheets to drive business growth and efficiency.

Launched in 2017 by Small Business Britain - the leading champion of small businesses in the UK - the f:Entrepreneur campaign aims to raise greater awareness of the impact of incredible female business owners across the country, and help provide inspiration and role models to the wider small business community. 

The campaign offers a host of events, training, and networking opportunities to boost skills, capability, and confidence. 

"It's wonderful to have Tara from TKA Finance Training feature in this year's #IAlso100 - all of the female entrepreneurs in this year's line-up are simply phenomenal," said Michelle Ovens CBE, founder of Small Business Britain.

"It is vital that we recognise the impressive contribution of the UK's female business owners and do all we can to support and encourage them throughout their entrepreneurial journey, from start-up to scale-up. As well as making a huge economic contribution to the UK, female entrepreneurs also create a wider positive impact that ripples across society and local communities too."

To see the full line-up of the 100 women featured in this year's f:Entrepreneur #IAlso100 campaign visit: https://f-entrepreneur.com/ialso-100-2025/

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Interviews and images are available on request.

For more information please contact tara@tkafinancetraining.co.uk

About TKA Finance Training

With a love of all things finance and helping businesses and individuals thrive, Tara Askham writes courses, training materials and delivers finance and spreadsheet training to global organisations.

Over the course of her career, she has helped hundreds of managers have their light bulb moment when they realise they can easily improve profits, efficiency, and decision-making.

Using the broad depth of her experience working with a unique mixture of organisations, from international brands to fast-growing SMEs, she uses a proven mix of practical and real-world examples to bring the learning to life.

Tara is a qualified lecturer specialising in finance and a Fellow Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians.

She is also passionate about social enterprise, having co-founded a multi-award winning social enterprise and her experience led to a role with NatWest as a Social and Community Capital Funding Panel Member.

About f:Entrepreneur

Michelle Ovens CBE set up the f:Entrepreneur Campaign, which launched on International Women's Day 2017, because of the growing sense that there should be more recognition for the amazing, multi-faceted contribution of women who run so many businesses in the UK.

The goal of the campaign is to celebrate the dynamic and inspirational businesses led by women in the UK. It is aimed at both men and women, because everyone has something to learn from these stories of challenge and success. 

Through events, content and storytelling, f:Entrepreneur showcases role models to help and inspire all small businesses.

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About the #IAlso100

The f:Entrepreneur #IAlso100 will celebrate and showcase amazing female entrepreneurs from all over the UK and is brought to you by the f:Entrepreneur campaign, run by Small Business Britain. 

About Small Business Britain

Small Business Britain is the UK's leading champion of small businesses, supporting the UK's 5.5 million small businesses, no matter their location, their sector, or their ambition level. 

Through a series of campaigns, networks, training and reports, Small Business Britain champions and informs small businesses in the UK. Committed to making entrepreneurship as inclusive as possible, it brings small business owners together to foster growth and increased confidence. 

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