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…
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…
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,…
There was an air of excitement at TechPixies HQ on Monday, 15th May as we gathered in anticipation of the arrival of Prime Minister, Theresa May. The PM was due to hold a private meeting with our founder, Joy Foster, to discuss how our TechPixies social enterprise is helping mums return to work along with…