Cait Salanson of The Little Kitchen Company Wins Mumpreneur Award
Cait Salanson, Founder and Managing Director at The Little Kitchen Company, is winner of The Mumpreneur Award at the 2023 everywoman Entrepreneur Awards.The Mumpreneur category was awarded to a woman who founded her business while raising a child/children aged 12 or under.
Cait left a senior role in Financial Services in 2010 to launch her Winchester-based The Little Kitchen Company. Cait’s business was born out of a passion for amazing food and customer experience as well as a desire to better balance the challenges of a growing young family. LKC has grown, from a ‘little kitchen’ at home into an award-winning business employing over 70 permanent staff. As a supporter of women in business, she is proud to offer senior roles to talented women, building on their pre-established work and life skills and talents.
Selected from nearly a thousand entries, Cait was one of just 11 extraordinary women from across the country who have been unveiled as the 2023 winners in the UK’s longest-running recognition programme for female entrepreneurs: The everywoman Entrepreneur Awards.
For over two decades everywoman has been at the forefront of the drive to increase the number of female entrepreneurs, working with government, industry bodies and the corporate sector to accelerate the rate of progress and dismantle barriers that remain for women, particularly when it comes to accessing funding, growing, and scaling their businesses. Despite a record breaking 150,000 women founding new businesses in the UK last year and all-female-led companies representing over 20.6% of UK businesses (up from 16.7% in 2018), the percentage of total deal value for all-female-founder businesses has decreased from 5.8% in 2016 to 3.5% in 2023.
Speaking about the awards, Maxine Benson MBE, Co-Founder of everywoman said: “The everywoman Entrepreneur Awards have a central role to play in highlighting the disconnect between the growth ambitions of female founded businesses and their access to funding. These brilliant women are wealth and job creators and the businesses we must be investing in for the growth of UK Plc. The awards are a call to arms for the investment and finance communities to double down on their efforts to understand how they can better serve these ambitious, unstoppable female founders. We are thrilled to celebrate the winners’ success and hope their ambition, resilience, and innovation to start, grow and scale their businesses, against the odds, will go on to inspire others.”