Having read Hilly Jane’s article ‘Meet the women who want to crack the return-to-work problem – starting with telling you to ‘toughen up’’ in the Telegraph, about Lisa Unwin and Deb Khan’s organisation and a book of the same name, She’s Back – we were intrigued to know more. TechPixies founder Joy Foster is reading…
Winning always feels good. TechPixies has been championing women since our inception and while that is and always has been our primary focus, winning a few awards along the way helps too! Naga Munchetty from BBC Breakfast hosted the event and read the judges’ statement before presenting Joy with the award: “Joy Foster has amazing…
Helen Wright has one mission in life – to help women find flexible, meaningful, well paid employment. We are so happy to have 923jobs.com as a partner and ally! We caught up with her on Zoom. Did you find this video useful? If so, we’d love to hear about it. Please fill out the…
As a full time athlete from 2003 to 2007, I literally lived in my training kit. My hair was always in a ponytail and the only makeup I wore was sunblock. Then, in 2010, I became a mother. I remember looking at myself in the mirror one day when my two little ones were in…
With the Christmas season right around the corner, TechPixies celebrated early with a sparkly party on November 25th. In attendance were nearly 50 TechPixies from six different cohorts along with key members of the management and advisory boards and original members of the Made with Joy team. The party was held in the Iffley Church…
Press Release 26 October 2017 The inspirational founder of TechPixies, Joy Foster, has beaten off stiff competition to be crowned Enterprise Nation’s Female Start-up of the Year 2017 at the Festival of Female Entrepreneurs held in Bristol last week. The national competition has been created to showcase early stage female start-up entrepreneurs who are excelling…
Press Release 20 September 2017 A social enterprise called TechPixies has launched in London to help mums and other women return to work by teaching them top-notch tech skills. TechPixies has formed a partnership with Azoomee, an award winning Shoreditch based tech business, where a free event took place today for women with a shared interest…
Our founder Joy Foster, who was recently shortlisted in the Rising Star Category at the Women in Business Awards, was also invited to spend the morning at 10 Downing Street. Here’s what she had to say about her meeting: “It was very productive discussion. I’ll hopefully be involved in many more. They wanted to know how…
5am Monday morning, as sun poured through the loft window, I found myself rolling out of bed to get ready for a 6am bus journey from Oxford to London to attend the first of four sessions at the FoundHER event in London. I’ve been looking forward to these sessions since I heard about them, excited…
Press Release 23 May 2017 TechPixies announces it has beaten its crowdfunding target to help more Oxfordshire mums return to work, shortly after hosting a visit from Prime Minister, Theresa May. Mrs May met with TechPixies founder Joy Foster and her team of Pixies at free office space provided by Grant Thornton in East Oxford,…