Confidence Gap Report
In the news
- Pioneers Post/NatWest February 2023 Joy Foster named in the 2023 WISE100 (Women in Social Enterprise 100) List
- Digital Women Awards 2022 October 2022 Joy Foster wins the Women’s Champion of the Year Award and is named the runner-up in the Trainer/Educator of the Year category
- Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2022 July 2022 TechPixies named a finalist in the South East Entrepreneur for Good category
- Digital Leaders 100 Awards May 2022 TechPixies named a finalist in the Digital Skills or Talent Initiative of the Year category
- Digital Women April 2022 8 Brilliant Podcasts Produced and Hosted by Women
- Digital Women April 2022 6 Incredible Women Who Champion Other Women
- everywoman March 2022 Joy Foster wins the Entrepreneur Award in the FDM everywoman in Technology Awards 2022
- SheEO February 2022 TechPixes named a SheEO UK Venture
- Pioneers Post/NatWest February 2022 Joy Foster named in the 2022 WISE100 (Women in Social Enterprise 100) List
- Mail Online/Femail February 2022 Make 2022 the year of learning with 10 top tips for you AND your children
- everywoman February 2022 Joy Foster named as an Entrepreneur Award finalist in the FDM everywoman in Technology Awards 2022
- SheEO January 2022 TechPixies named as a SheEO UK Venture Semi-Finalist
- Digital Leaders 100 Awards November 2021 Joy Foster named a Digital Leaders Local Champion for the South East
- Great British Businesswoman Awards 2021 October 2021 Joy Foster named as a finalist in the Social Enterprise Businesswoman of the Year category
- Computer Weekly July 2021 Most Influential Women in UK Tech: The 2021 Longlist
- Business & Innovation Magazine July 2021 Getting Women Tech Savvy and Back to Work (Tech For Good feature, p. 13)
- Digital Leaders May 2021 Joy Foster named as a finalist in the Impact Awards 2021 Tech for Good Entrepreneur category and winners announced
- Startup.info March 2021 Award-Winning EdTech Entrepreneur Talks about Growth in the Midst of a Pandemic
- My Sales Guru International March 2021 Sales Stories: Paul Essery interviews Joy Foster
- Enterprise Nation March 2021 Women innovators in a changing world
- Maddyness March 2021 22 female founders, VCs and leaders share their top tips for aspiring female entrepreneurs
- Adobe March 2021 Claire Darley Q&A with Joy Foster
- UKTN March 2021 International Women’s Day: The Trendsetters of UK Tech in 2021
- BBC Radio Oxford March 2021 International Women’s Spring Festival in aid of The Nasio Trust
- Oxford Mail February 2021 Woman nominated for prestigious technology award
- Pioneers Post November 2020 WISE (Women in Social Enterprise) 100 Awards
- Enterprising Oxford October 2020 Joy Foster, Founder of TechPixies
- The Times July 2020 Surviving and thriving: the tech education business that boomed through the lockdown
- The Telegraph July 2020 Is your career on hold? Here’s how to reclaim it
- WeAreTheCity May 2020 Rising Stars 2020 Editor’s Choice Award
- The Times 13 March 2020 Women lead the way
- The Entrepreneur Network March 2020 Report Unlocking Growth: How to Expand Access to Capital
- Business Insider October 2019 UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019
- Forbes – June 2019 – Do Female Entrepreneurs Approach Risk-Taking In Business Differently?
- Tech Nation – April 2019 – TechPixies Named ‘One to Watch’ in the EdTech Space.
- STELLA – 21 March 2019 – How to Give Your Career a Digital Facelift
- BBC South Today – 30 Nov 2018 – BBC South Today Pops into PowWow to Profile the Women Rebuilding their Confidence Through Tech
- Oxford Mail – 15 Nov 2018 – TechPixies founder praised in 100 Faces survey
- BBC Radio Oxford – 23 Nov 2018 – TechPixies Founder talks #MeToo and Women’s Equality with Kat Orman
- Working Mums – 22 Nov 2018 – ‘A real programme that changes real women’s lives’
- BBC Radio Oxford – 30 Aug 2018 – TechPixies discuss upskilling and returning to work at BBC Radio Oxford
- The Sun – 4 Jan 2018 – Mum’s Comeback (half way down the page)
- Cotswold Life – 7 Nov 2017 – TechPixies wins Enterprise Nation’s Female Start-up of the Year 2017
- The Guardian – 10 June 2017 – BehindBras: lingerie business dreamed up in jail aims to help women prisoners (TechPixies mentioned in article as partner)
- Oxford Times and Oxford Mail – 25 May 2017 – Pixies creating tech magic in Oxfordshire make a wish for a new office and some cash
Latest Press Releases
- 3/10/2020 – TechPixies Announced as WINNER for Digital Course of the Year at Inaugural Digital Women Awards
- 11/4/19 – TechPixies Secures £150,000 Female-Led Funding
- 17/3/19 – Side-lined, undervalued and anxious colleagues are more skilled than them: The truth about women going back to work after a career break
- 13 Nov 2018 – TechPixies founder Joy Foster Wins Suite of Awards
- 5 Oct 2018 – TechPixies wins Women in Business Start up of the Year 2018 Award
- 16 June 2018 – TechPixies launch online platform reaching women across the UK and into Greece and Switzerland
- 19 June 2018 – TechPixies Founder Joy Foster wins Institute of Directors Startup Director of the Year 2018 for London and the South
- 26 Oct 2017 – TechPixies win national award
- 20 Sept 2017 – TechPixies helps London women back to work
- 16 Aug 2017 – Women in Business Awards & 10 Downing Street are on the agenda for TechPixies founder Joy Foster
- 27 May 2017 – Pixies power through crowdfunding target and host PM
- 17 May 2017 – Prime Minister Visits TechPixies
Digital Assets
TechPixies’ Logo (high resolution)
Photographs of Joy which can be used in the Press
Photographs of the TechPixies community which can be used in the Press
Spokespeople
The main spokesperson for comment on TechPixies and in relation to women returners, its place in tech, education and equality is Joy Foster, founder and managing director of TechPixes.
You can find her bio and head shot HERE.
History of TechPixies
Joy set up TechPixies in 2015 off the back of Government Equalities funding which helped an initial pilot group of 12 women return to work. Following the success of the pilot, TechPixies won a ‘Grow it’ Award from UnLtd to help scale the programme and launched a successful crowdfunding campaign that garnered a visit from the Prime Minister.
In 2017, TechPixies won Enterprise Nation’s Female Startup of the Year and in 2018, TechPixies won the Women in Business Startup of the Year. Most recently, TechPixies was featured in Stella Magazine and has raised £150,000 in order to scale their programme across the country. In April 2019, they were mentioned in Tech Nation’s Report as ‘one to watch’ in the EdTech space.
You can find out more on the ‘Our Story‘ page.