15 May 2010

The Remote Worker Awards Sets Up Young Warwickshire Woman In Business

Catherine Prout won a home based franchise worth £15k from The Remote Worker Awards Last year Catherine Prout from Warwick, in Warwickshire, had her life completely changed when she was crowned with The Helen O’Grady Special Award and the winner of her very own home based business worth £15k. With this week’s announcement of the 2010 Remote Worker Awards, in association with BT Business, now open, Catherine encourages the people of Warwickshire to enter.

Catherine’s commitment to teaching drama and her dedication, enthusiasm, confidence and experience led to the judges awarding her with a £15k drama-academy franchise.

She spent a week training in Bristol, which was filled with business management seminars and advice on when, where and how to book studios. Working through examples of each of the curriculum lessons Helen O'Grady has developed using their thirty years experience made Catherine appreciate how much had work had gone into every step of the lesson plans.

Catherine said: "When I won the award it was amazing and totally unexpected! My adventure is only beginning and with this amazing start Remote Employment and Helen O'Grady have given me, I cannot wait to discover what exciting things the future has in store for me!"
Catherine has been contacting schools, setting up administration and ordering publicity material. After booking her six studio spaces she started to advertise all around her local area. She wants to share the benefits in self-development, confidence and social skills that her new Helen O' Grady business can provide to her local community.
Award winning website, Remote Employment, Google’s No 1 job site for flexible and home based jobs, launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to honour champions of home working and remote working.

Anyone can enter this Award at www.remoteworkerawards.com.

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Your Home Office
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