At the beginning of this year I sponsored another business. Mum’s the Boss is one of those businesses that I instantly thought was a great idea, probably because I’m a mum, work at home and often have to do the juggle of work and childcare.

This week I got an email from Sam and Helen letting me know that the little I gave made a big difference…

“We just wanted to write and thank you so much for the money you gave us at the start of the year to sponsor the creche provision at our meetings. We have just had our last meeting of 2009 and it has been an amazing year - with growing membership numbers, lots of local PR, running 3 start-up events and introducing drop-in business surgeries to our monthly schedule. Next year we are changing our meeting venue, from a local community hall to the town’s international athletics stadium, which will give us a much higher profile locally. And because of the demand from other business mums, in January we will be expanding into 2 other counties, with a view to getting groups running in 10 counties by the end of the year.

The leap of faith you took with us and our idea all those months ago was incredibly generous, and your donation really helped to ease our cash flow throughout the year. We really can’t thank you enough - but we will try to, by following your example and helping out another business mum at the start of her journey one day soon.”

Just shows you one person can make a difference.