Lincolnshire Showground to host inspiring speakers at International Women’s Day 2022

Caroline Kenyon, owner of The Food Awards Company

Caroline launched The Food Awards Company in 2012 with the backing of Luke Johnson, one of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs. With her team, Caroline created and runs the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the year, the world’s leading awards for food photography, as well as the Tiptree World Bread Awards UK and USA. Just over a year ago, she set up FoodFM, the first global internet radio station all about food.

Claire Birch, owner of Doddington Hall

Claire and her husband James live at Doddington near Lincoln. Together they have developed a series of rural enterprises on their estate, with the backdrop of Elizabethan Historic House, Doddington Hall. The hall features a range of retail businesses including a farm shop, bike shop and clothing and home stores.

They employ over 200 people and can host weddings and corporate events. Since taking over at Doddington, she and James have worked hard to make their activities as sustainable as possible, installing a district biomass heating system using waste wood from the estate.

Helen Bell, owner of Romancing the Ordinary Retreats

Helen is the owner of the successful health and wellness retreat Romancing the Ordinary Retreats. Helen chooses to follow a path highly influenced by Buddhist and Daoist teachings and described this part of her life as the ‘last transformation’. A qualified teacher, Helen teaches Qigong which is the body a breath practice based on gentle martial arts style movement.

Helen will share her thoughts on her understanding of the rules that life is based on and how the ‘five hindrances’ can stop us from re-inventing and transforming ourselves such that we don’t often follow our dreams.

Dr Sandra McCutcheon, founder and principal consultant at Mindfulness Skills4Life

Dr Sandra McCutcheon is the founder and principal consultant at Mindfulness Skills4Life. Dr Sands established herself as an internationally recognised specialist in the field of infectious diseases that damage and cause dysfunction in the brain.