News & insights
Explore the latest news and insights from The Whole Point, where we share updates, practical guidance, and fresh thinking to help support women-led businesses and the organisations that back them.

Elevate Series – Dr Fozia Saleem
Raising investment could be easier elsewhere for Dr Fozia Saleem, but she’s “committed to the North East”. Here’s why.

Built to Rise is back in Leeds
The Whole Point’s growth accelerator for women-led businesses – Built to Rise – is back for another year.

Elevate Series – Nic Greenan
Nic’s journey to Tyneside Cinema started with having her eyes opened to possibilities she’d never considered before…

Elevate Series – Jacqui Kell
Chief Executive of Live Theatre, helping boost Newcastle creatively, socially, and economically Welcome to the next instalment of the Elevate Series from the Newcastle Regional

Elevate Series – Dr Tallie Bush
Return on Investment is a metric that women-led and female-founded businesses excel at — and here’s a great example.

Elevate series – Alex Longton
Alex Longton is co-founder and MD of Tiba Tempeh, the UK’s fastest-growing chilled meat-free brand. Alex shares her experience of building on bootstrapped success to secure venture capital funding.