about helen > awards and achievements

• www.hagsharlotsheroines.com was recently nominated for the prestigious Women in Publishing New Venture Award for 2004. Helen is a co-founder of this creative writing site about herstory, and pioneering women's lives;

• Helen Wilkinson, Genderquake's Founder and Director was one of 35 commended social entrepreneurs for the inaugural Upstarts Award for social entrepreneurship in 2001, the brainchild of the New Statesman in association with Centrica, for www.genderquake.com;

• Helen Wilkinson was one of 10 Finalists for the E-Business Start-up category of the E-Commerce Awards 2001, sponsored by Sun Microsystems and Computacenter, www.ecommerce-awards.co.uk for www.elancentric.com;

• Helen was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Women's Leadership in California's Mills College as one of their visiting fellows in 2001-2002;

• Helen Wilkinson was nominated as one of top 40 movers and shakers revolutionising the personnel industry in 2001 by Personnel Today for the vision that underpinned www.elancentric.com;

• Helen was profiled in the US based Fast Company magazine as a Change Agent, and someone to watch for 2000 for her ideas on gender, feminism, work and life;

• Helen was awarded the prestigious Harkness Fellowship for opinion formers and shapers in 1997-1998;

• Helen was profiled for Guardian G2's Women's Page in Spring 1997 at the launch of Tomorrow's Women, a pioneering event bringing women and schoolgirls from all walks of life to discuss scenarios and futures for women in 2010 with successful women like Steve Shirley, founder of FI Group, Marjorie Scardino, CEO, Pearson Group, Helen Alexander, Chief Executive of the Economist, Perseen Warsi, self made entrepreneur, Lynne Franks of Lynne Franks PR and the founder of www.seedfusion.com, a global network for women entrepreneurs and Anita Roddick;

• Helen was a Cosmopolitan Woman of Achievement, 1996;

• She was also a BBC Sponsored 21st century Trust Fellow in 1993.