[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":653},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-\u002Fnews\u002Fwomen-in-business-networking-hampshire":3,"site:reading-news-women-in-business-networking-hampshire":328,"news-rows":409,"site:og:\u002Fnews\u002Fwomen-in-business-networking-hampshire":651},{"id":4,"title":5,"answeredBy":6,"atAGlance":6,"author":7,"blocks":6,"body":8,"date":283,"description":284,"events":285,"extension":290,"gettingThere":6,"image":291,"imageAlt":292,"imageCredit":293,"interview":6,"kind":294,"lifted":6,"means":6,"meta":295,"navigation":296,"now":6,"organisers":6,"path":297,"photos":6,"pick":6,"pull":6,"questions":6,"quote":6,"readMins":298,"scene":6,"seo":299,"source":6,"sources":300,"span":6,"standfirst":320,"stem":321,"steps":6,"tags":322,"town":6,"updated":326,"venues":6,"was":6,"__hash__":327},"news\u002Fnews\u002Fwomen-in-business-networking-hampshire.md","Women in business: the groups meeting across Hampshire",null,"hampshire.events",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":271},"minimark",[11,15,20,31,34,43,47,56,70,73,77,80,119,122,126,129,156,159,163,176,180,198,202,228,241,245],[12,13,14],"p",{},"Most business networking in Hampshire is open to anyone. A small number of groups are set up specifically for women in business, and they tend to be a different kind of room: smaller, often at a different time of day, and sometimes built round the realities of running a business alongside caring for children. This piece looks at what the national figures say about women in business and at the groups listed here.",[16,17,19],"h2",{"id":18},"how-many-businesses-are-led-by-women","How many businesses are led by women",[12,21,22,23,30],{},"The best regular measure comes from the government's Longitudinal Small Business Survey. Its 2025 results, published in October 2026, found that ",[24,25,29],"a",{"href":26,"rel":27},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fgovernment\u002Fstatistics\u002Fsmall-business-survey-2025-businesses-with-employees\u002Flongitudinal-small-business-survey-2025-sme-employers-businesses-with-1-to-249-employees",[28],"nofollow","\"around 19% of SME employers were women-led\"",", compared with 14% in 2024 and 15% in 2023. That covers businesses with between one and 249 employees across the UK. The survey found women-led firms were most common in health, education, other services, accommodation and food, administration, and professional and scientific work.",[12,32,33],{},"A jump from 14% to 19% in one year is large, and survey figures can move from year to year, so it is safer to read it as \"around one in five, give or take\" than as a trend. The survey does not publish a Hampshire figure.",[12,35,36,37,42],{},"For scale: the Department for Business and Trade estimated there were ",[24,38,41],{"href":39,"rel":40},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gov.uk\u002Fgovernment\u002Fstatistics\u002Fbusiness-population-estimates-2026\u002Fbusiness-population-estimates-for-the-uk-and-regions-2026-statistical-release",[28],"5.6 million private sector businesses in the UK"," at the start of 2026, and 74% of them had no employees beyond the owners. The women-led share above is for employers only.",[16,44,46],{"id":45},"women-starting-businesses","Women starting businesses",[12,48,49,50,55],{},"The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) measures how many adults are starting or running a new business. Its UK report, produced by Warwick Business School with NatWest and published through the Enterprise Research Centre, said in September 2025 that early-stage business activity by women had risen ",[24,51,54],{"href":52,"rel":53},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\u002Fpress\u002Fuk-entrepreneurship-activity-hits-record-high-led-by-women-but-challenges-persist\u002F",[28],"from just over 3.5% in 2002 to 10% in 2024",", roughly three times the level of twenty years before.",[12,57,58,59,63,64,69],{},"The following year's report, ",[60,61,62],"em",{},"Beyond the Unicorns",", found early-stage activity across all UK adults rose ",[24,65,68],{"href":66,"rel":67},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wbs.ac.uk\u002Fnews\u002Frecord-entrepreneurship-levels-highlighted-in-wbs-parliamentary-evidence\u002F",[28],"from 12.0% to 16.8% in 2025",", and said the growth was driven by young people and women starting businesses.",[12,71,72],{},"These are UK figures. They describe a lot of women starting businesses, many of them on their own, which is the group that tends to look for a network.",[16,74,76],{"id":75},"the-groups-listed-in-hampshire","The groups listed in Hampshire",[12,78,79],{},"These organisers run women-focused events that are, or have been, in our listings:",[81,82,83,91,98,105,112],"ul",{},[84,85,86,90],"li",{},[24,87,89],{"href":88},"\u002Forganisers\u002Fladies-who-latte-basingstoke","Ladies Who Latte Basingstoke"," holds relaxed networking get-togethers for women in business around Basingstoke.",[84,92,93,97],{},[24,94,96],{"href":95},"\u002Forganisers\u002Frevolutionary-women-in-business","Revolutionary Women in Business"," runs a monthly networking morning for women in business round Clanfield and Waterlooville.",[84,99,100,104],{},[24,101,103],{"href":102},"\u002Forganisers\u002Ffreelance-mum","Freelance Mum"," runs walk-and-talks for mums in business, with business chat afterwards and an optional hour of co-working. Children are welcome.",[84,106,107,111],{},[24,108,110],{"href":109},"\u002Forganisers\u002Fwomen-in-tech-hampshire","Women in Tech Hampshire"," runs evening talks and discussions for women working in technology.",[84,113,114,118],{},[24,115,117],{"href":116},"\u002Forganisers\u002Fwomen-mean-business-new-forest","Women Mean Business New Forest"," has an organiser page with us, though nothing of theirs is listed at the moment.",[12,120,121],{},"That is a short list for a county of Hampshire's size, and we know it is not complete: groups that don't list publicly won't appear. If you run one, please tell us.",[16,123,125],{"id":124},"how-they-differ-from-open-networking","How they differ from open networking",[12,127,128],{},"Going by what the listings say:",[81,130,131,138,144,150],{},[84,132,133,137],{},[134,135,136],"strong",{},"Times are often later in the morning."," Several of these groups meet after the school run, not before it.",[84,139,140,143],{},[134,141,142],{},"Formats are often informal."," A coffee morning or a walk, rather than a structured meeting with pitches and referral targets.",[84,145,146,149],{},[134,147,148],{},"Some are built for a particular life stage."," A walk where children are welcome is a different event from a hotel breakfast.",[84,151,152,155],{},[134,153,154],{},"Some are about a sector, not just gender."," Women in Tech Hampshire is as much a technology event as a women's one.",[12,157,158],{},"None of this means women-focused groups are better or worse than open ones. They are different, and many women go to both.",[16,160,162],{"id":161},"what-the-research-suggests","What the research suggests",[12,164,165,166,169,170,175],{},"The research on networking is not specific to women, but it applies. A large 2022 study in ",[60,167,168],{},"Science",", based on experiments on LinkedIn with ",[24,171,174],{"href":172,"rel":173},"https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1126\u002Fscience.abl4476",[28],"more than 20 million people",", found that moderately weak ties, people you know a little, did the most for job moves. A small group you attend regularly builds that kind of tie. An open event adds breadth.",[16,177,179],{"id":178},"support-beyond-networking","Support beyond networking",[12,181,182,183,187,188,192,193,197],{},"A network is one source of help among several. The same small business survey found that in 2025, 28% of small and medium employers sought outside information or advice in the previous year, most often from accountants (40%) and consultants or business advisers (31%). If you are starting out, publicly funded business support is worth a look alongside any group. In Portsmouth, ",[24,184,186],{"href":185},"\u002Forganisers\u002Fshaping-portsmouth","Shaping Portsmouth"," runs an evening session for people with a business idea, and the ",[24,189,191],{"href":190},"\u002Forganisers\u002Fsolent-business-growth-service","Solent Business Growth Service"," runs one-to-one clinics with an adviser. Our ",[24,194,196],{"href":195},"\u002Fbusiness-support","business support"," page explains the kinds of help on offer and how to find yours.",[16,199,201],{"id":200},"what-this-means-if-youre-going-to-events","What this means if you're going to events",[81,203,204,210,216,222],{},[84,205,206,209],{},[134,207,208],{},"Try one women-focused group and one open one."," You will get different contacts from each.",[84,211,212,215],{},[134,213,214],{},"Check the time and the format."," If early starts are hard, the later-morning and walking groups suit that.",[84,217,218,221],{},[134,219,220],{},"Read the listing for who it is for."," Some groups are for women in business in general, some for mums, some for a sector.",[84,223,224,227],{},[134,225,226],{},"Go more than once."," Weak ties take a few meetings to form.",[12,229,230,231,235,236,240],{},"Our ",[24,232,234],{"href":233},"\u002Fguides\u002Fyour-first-business-event","guide to your first business event"," and ",[24,237,239],{"href":238},"\u002Fguides\u002Fwhat-is-netwalking","what netwalking is"," cover what to expect.",[16,242,244],{"id":243},"find-the-next-one","Find the next one",[12,246,247,248,252,253,257,258,252,262,235,266,270],{},"The current dates are in the listings below. See also ",[24,249,251],{"href":250},"\u002Fformats\u002Fwalks","walks",", ",[24,254,256],{"href":255},"\u002Fgroups","groups",", and the ",[24,259,261],{"href":260},"\u002Ftowns\u002Fbasingstoke","Basingstoke",[24,263,265],{"href":264},"\u002Ftowns\u002Fclanfield","Clanfield",[24,267,269],{"href":268},"\u002Ftowns\u002Ffareham","Fareham"," town pages.",{"title":272,"searchDepth":273,"depth":273,"links":274},"",2,[275,276,277,278,279,280,281,282],{"id":18,"depth":273,"text":19},{"id":45,"depth":273,"text":46},{"id":75,"depth":273,"text":76},{"id":124,"depth":273,"text":125},{"id":161,"depth":273,"text":162},{"id":178,"depth":273,"text":179},{"id":200,"depth":273,"text":201},{"id":243,"depth":273,"text":244},"2026-05-07","What the latest surveys say about women starting and leading businesses, and the women-led networking groups listed across Hampshire.",[286,287,288,289],"ladies-who-latte-basingstoke","women-in-business-networking-clanfield-waterlooville-hampshire","freelance-mum-netwalk-at-southampton","women-in-tech-hampshire-adapting-to-a-fast-moving-tech-world","md","https:\u002F\u002Fimages.unsplash.com\u002Fphoto-1758599543122-36252c317fd9?auto=format&fit=crop&w=1600&q=70","Two businesswomen talking outside an office","Vitaly Gariev · unsplash.com\u002Fphotos\u002Fh6VnEQ6teHg","article",{},true,"\u002Fnews\u002Fwomen-in-business-networking-hampshire",4,{"title":5,"description":284},[301,305,309,313,316],{"title":302,"publisher":303,"url":26,"date":304},"Longitudinal Small Business Survey 2025: SME employers (businesses with 1 to 249 employees)","Department for Business and Trade","2026-10-15",{"title":306,"publisher":307,"url":52,"date":308},"UK entrepreneurship activity hits record high led by women but challenges persist (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor UK 2024\u002F25)","Enterprise Research Centre","2025-09-25",{"title":310,"publisher":311,"url":66,"date":312},"Record entrepreneurship levels highlighted in WBS parliamentary evidence (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor UK 2025\u002F26)","Warwick Business School","2026-10-30",{"title":314,"publisher":303,"url":39,"date":315},"Business population estimates for the UK and regions 2026: statistical release","2026-11-05",{"title":317,"publisher":318,"url":172,"date":319},"A causal test of the strength of weak ties (Science, 377(6612), 1304 to 1310)","Rajkumar, Saint-Jacques, Bojinov, Brynjolfsson and Aral","2022-09-16","Around one in five small and medium employers in the UK is women-led, and women are starting businesses at far higher rates than twenty years ago. 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