About
BritMums is the UK’s largest and most influential network of parent bloggers. Our bloggers are talented and varied — and write about everything from food to tech to travel. Our mission is to encourage and support bloggers and the high quality, ethical blogging they do. We’re passionate about it. We started life in 2008 when founder and former marketing executive Susanna Scott — inspired by the burgeoning number of parents that blog — created a social site where we could network.
Since then, the network has grown from a handful of members to more than 3,500 parent bloggers with an aggregated audience of 12 million. The network has turned from a part-time hobby into a full-time business and BritMums members have become influencers both online and off. BritMums and BritDads — innovative, agenda-setting, technologically savvy — are leading the online conversation about blogging and parenting. (See our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.)
Jennifer Howze — a journalist, founding member of British Mummy Bloggers and originator of the Times’s Alpha Mummy blog — joined forces with Susanna, and together they have relaunched BritMums with a shorter, snappier name and an expanded vision.
We also run the hugely popular BritMums Live! blogger conference, an “offline” 2-day experience where bloggers can gather and learn about the latest in British blogging whilst also having the opportunity to connect with brands.
The BritMums Blog is the voice of our members! They use this space to share, learn, rave, revel and occasionally rant. Got a conversation you want to start? Want to share something cool you’ve learned about blogging? This is your space to do it. Go for it. If you want to contribute — just let us know.
We love working with like-minded people and organisations. We’re interested in partnerships that benefit our community both individually and collectively, and offer innovative “blogger engagement” programmes. If you feel you’re brand and/or organisation is a good fit, please contact us: info@britmums.com
Make sure you follow us on Twitter (@britmums) and “like” our Facebook fan page.
Contributing Editors
Karin Joyce is the author of Café Bebe. She found her blogging voice as a member of British Mummy Bloggers in May of 2009 and has combined raising her daughter Ella and being a wife to husband Mark with a career as a freelance writer, blogger and social media maven. Karin blogs about motherhood, living a gluten-free life and impending second parenthood at the age of 40. You’ll often find her on the BritMums Twitter account, the BritMums Facebook page and generally hanging ’round the BritMums community chatting and making friends. Got a question or just want to say hello? Give her a shout on @cafebebe.
Marianne Whooley is a BritMums Blog editor, our resident foodie round-up writer and the author of the popular Mari’s World blog, where she blogs and vlogs about everything from sex after children to her passion for good food. She write a monthly food column for BritMums, and make us very hungry. Find her on Twitter at @Maris_world.
Michelle Garrett is a freelance writer and professional blogger and BritMums special projects editor, helping on initiatives like the BiB Awards and BritMums Live. As an American expat making her life in Britain, she has created the UK country guide for Passport Career, written for several expat websites, has a monthly column at Expat Focus and is currently working on an eBook for expats. Michelle is the author of The American Resident, where she blogs about making a life overseas, raising a blended family, herding cats, chasing chickens and attempting the Good Life in Essex. Say hi to Michelle on Twitter @Michelloui
Holly Seddon is a journalist and community consultant and helps with special projects. She writes a monthly column on modern motherhood for Vine magazine and freelances for a brilliantly mixed bag of fun clients. Holly has written for The Guardian, Metro, MSN Money and Travel, News International and others. A former diet editor at the Sun, she retained surprisingly few healthy habits but has recently taken up jogging as a way to escape the noise of her three children. She has published a book on adoption, and in 2009 was highly commended at the Remote Worker Awards. Her music blog,www.musosguide.com, has been shortlisted for several awards. Say hello on@hollyseddon.
Kate Sutton is the owner of the wonderfully eclectic lifestyle blog, WitWitWoo. A mother to two boys, she has a knack for making the most banal things much more interesting than they really are. Normally found talking about cake, sausages and Riverdance on Twitter (@iamwitwitwoo) her considerably sized, Titian hair can be seen from satellite. Kate loves to dance, sing (very) badly and laugh a lot. Her fiercely competitive streak has now earnt her the title of world record breaker. She has added this to her existing list of accolades, which include Apprentice interviewee, Smirnoff model and ex-majorette.
Kate Davis-Holmes was raised by her adoptive family in Yorkshire. After studying Law at Cambridge, she joined the third sector. She has experience of working with local, national and international charities. In her early career, she specialised in debt counselling. Later, she devised media strategies for organisations, promoted volunteering and facilitated learning groups and multi-sector partnerships. Kate currently lives with her husband, elderly father, three school-age children and a range of pets on a smallholding. Kate enjoys writing, reading, cookery, bargain-hunting and family life. She blogs at kateonthinice.wordpress.com and is leading BritMums work in the charity sector.
Julia Boggio is one of the UK’s leading wedding and portrait photographers. She is a regular, popular columnist for Photo Professional magazine and, in the past few years, Julia has achieved over 30 magazine covers, including Cosmo Bride and You & Your Wedding – the magazine that gave her the Brides’ Choice award in 2010. Julia and her husband run a family, couple and boudoir portrait studio based in Wimbledon. Known for their fun and boutique style, their images decorate the walls of hundreds of homes across the southeast of England. Julia has won admiration not just for her photography, but also for her business acumen; she was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year in Merton in 2010 and 2011, the latter while she was on maternity leave after giving birth to her first child in May. Julia and her husband, James, are also internationally infamous for posting their first dance from their wedding on You Tube. Their Dirty Dancing video spurred a worldwide trend in choreographed first dances and they’ve appeared on news shows across the globe, including Richard & Judy, BBC Breakfast, and GMTV in the UK, Sunrise TV in Australia, and The Oprah Winfrey Show in the US – where Julia danced with Patrick Swayze. Considered to be one of the first “You Tube phenomena”, Julia writes about what happened next to the Dirty Dancing couple in her successful mum blog, I Carried a Watermelon.
Vicki Psarias is the blogger Honest Mum. Psarias is an award winning writer/director winning the 30 Under 30 Square Mile London Talent Award, The Channel 4 4Talent Award for Best Filmmaker amongst many Best Director film festival awards from LA to India. Vicki features in the Guardian’s Courvoisier Future 500 and was highly commended at the Red Magazine Red Hot Women Awards for her writing and directing work. Read her blog, Honest Mum, for honest and funny musings of a filmmaker and first time mother. Vicki’s film website is VPsarias. Vicki is former Editor of the Film & Festivals Magazine and currently reviews films for BBC Radio Leeds every Thursday from 11am on 92.4 FM or on BBC iPlayer. Follow Vicki on Twitter @HonestMummy and @VickiFilm
Rosie Sherry is mother to three boys and is based in Cambridge. These days she can be mostly found working on her somewhat startup style geeky business - The Software Testing Club. However, she is also well known for being a software tester, a social media geek, creating local coworking spaces and being an entrepreneur. She can be found on Twitter (www.twitter.com/rosiesherry). Her Mama Sherry Blog. Or her ‘Professional Blog‘.
Helen Williamson is the voice behind the very loquacious GG, who blogs at Actually Mummy… She also writes for Love All Blogs. She spends too much time on Twitter and Facebook and reads a ridiculous amount of blogs. She especially loves to lend an ear to new bloggers, having navigated the waters of blog set-up last year with the invaluable support of more established blog writers. In her free time other hat she is a freelance writer, blogger and social media professional, supporting businesses with their. Follow her on Twitter @actuallymummy.
Nickie O’Hara and ‘Typecast’ are all about breaking the mould. Now she’s doing that at BritMums giving us our monthly Blog Chat. Nickie started her blog to release a few demons and tell the world about her difficult and unusual experiences of parenthood. Once she started, she couldn’t stop. With one finger on the pulse and the other on the keyboard, Nickie is not afraid to say it as she sees it. She works hard, is a true procrastinator, drinks wine, is occasionally published and is a Nana in her spare time. In the words of Raymond Babbitt: “She’s all sparkly. She looks like a holiday.”
Ruth Arnold is a geeky, technology-loving mother of two pre-schoolers (a daughter aged four and a son aged one). She has been blogging since 2005 and podcasting since 2007. Ruth launched her geekmummy blog in August 2010 as a maternity leave project, as looking after a newborn and a toddler clearly wasn’t enough to keep her busy! In early 2011 Ruth started working with her husband John to bring his experience of video production to her blog, and geekmummy.tv was born. Shortly afterwards Ruth joined the BritMums video blogging team, and she regularly features in the BritMums featured topic discussions. Ruth is very proud that geekmummy.com recently won the MAD blog award for Most Innovative Blog.
Maggy Woodley is an Austrian mum of two living in the UK and married to a Brit. She started her craft blog Red Ted Art in order to share her craft ideas for both children and adults – hoping to inspire others to ‘have a go’ and ‘have fun’ with their children or to discover new crafts and ideas for themselves. Passionate about crafts, she feels that crafting is something for all and that everyone can have a go! Her weekly How Tos are aimed to be ‘easy to follow’ and inspirational for both adults and teens, whilst her Kids Craft aims to please toddlers to 10-year-olds!
Helen Williamson is the voice behind the very loquacious GG, who blogs at Actually Mummy… She also writes for Love All Blogs. She spends too much time on Twitter and Facebook and reads a ridiculous amount of blogs. She especially loves to lend an ear to new bloggers, having navigated the waters of blog set-up last year with the invaluable support of more established blog writers. In her free time other hat she is a freelance writer, blogger and social media professional, supporting businesses with their .
Alex Ozansoy is a 39-year-old Mum of Aleyna (6) who, years after oxygen starvation at birth, was diagnosed with Global Developmental Delay. For many years, having a child with special needs defined her. However through her blog, Doing it all for Aleyna, an amazing husband, a massively supportive family and some great friends, she is now not just a Mum of a little girl with special needs. She is a happy, funny and positive, qualified NLP practitioner, embarking on a new career in social media and writing her memoirs. Often described by her Dad as the light of his life. In turn, Aleyna is the light of hers.
Ruth Dawkins is a 28-year-old mother and writer who has recently moved from Edinburgh to Hertfordshire. She blogs as DorkyMum on everything from parenting and poetry to politics and photography. Before becoming DorkyMum her jobs included: environmental campaigner, Green Party parliamentary candidate, newspaper intern, and student union president. However, her favourite job was being a climate change ambassador for Ben and Jerry’s; a role that involved camping in the Arctic and eating a lot of free ice cream (although not at the same time). When she’s not engaging in armchair activism or entertaining her toddler, you can find Ruth wasting her time on Twitter and Facebook.
Mrs Green lives with her husband and their highly spirited daughter in rural England. Most of the time she talks a load of rubbish. No really; she’s passionate about recycling and reducing waste, and reckons she saves around £2000 per year from her greener way of life – find out how she accumulated just one carrier bag of landfill waste during 2010 at http://myzerowaste.com. If you can’t get enough of the Good Life then check out http://littlegreenblog.com where she blogs about green tech, natural parenting and environmental issues. Give her a tweet her @littlegreenblog; go on, you know you want to…
Melitsa is a former teacher, mother of three boys and military wife who specialises in sharing Early Childhood play information from practitioners and experts into the hands of parents and carers to improve their under 5 play opportunities. She hosts a weekly podcast called Raising Playful Tots that is packed with practical activities to encourage a playful journey with our under 5s along with points for discussion, challenge, laughter and inspiration.Melitsa has been blogging since 2007 sharing forgotten play activities, promoting discussion and community to encourage parents to have fun with their children intentionally and make choices about play the way we remembered from our childhood. She celebrates the journey of early childhood playtime through her play activities newsletter, blog, recent ebooks and her collection of playdough masterpieces only a mum could love!
Trish Burgess started her blog ‘Mum’s Gone To…’ with a series of posts called ‘Mum’s Gone To Iceland’ where she was extremely ill on a whale-watching trip and thought she would die snow-mobiling on a glacier. Thankfully she survived and continued with less scary family trips: ‘Mum’s Gone To…Canada, Cyprus, Barcelona, Berlin etc. Originally from Newcastle upon Tyne she now lives in South Lincolnshire and travels with her husband and teenage son. Trish can be found on Twitter at @mumsgoneto
Laura is our resident ‘health doctor’. Not a real doctor, you understand. No, rather, she’s a seasoned communications professional who has worked with a variety of health charities and organisations over the years, making her perfectly placed to write the monthly health roundup for BritMums. She’s a busy mum to two children under the age of four and writes about her parenting (mis)adventures as well as her search for that elusive work/life balance over at Chez Mummy. She has a weakness for biscuits and can be bribed to do just about anything for cheesecake.
Luci Hindmarsh is a mother, wife and writer – in that order. Honest. She is based in London and started her career in journalism before accidentally languishing in PR for too many years – it was the lashings of champagne wot done it. Motherhood allowed her to change track and get back to what she loves – writing.
Luci blogs at mother.wife.me about all things parenting, her marriage and anything else that piques her interest. She’s recently set up Ma Puce Bilingual , a blog about teaching her daughter French, and is also regular contributor to Journal blog. Luci can regularly be found loitering with intent on Twitter and also ventures onto Facebook.
Michelle Pannell is wife to one, mummy to three adorable but loud terrors (JJ age 8 and 4 year old twins Miss M & Miss E), a part-time HR Manager and full-time grafter. She started her blog, Mummy From The Heart… in 2008 on a whim and 3 years later it has become her sanctuary where she takes time out of her busy life….. to write about her busy life! Michelle’s blog is a very honest place where she shares tales of imperfect parenting, being a Christian and recovering from compulsive overeating. She also takes time each week to be thankful for all the blessings she receives by hosting the weekly #R2BC (Reasons to be Cheerful) blog hop. Life is a journey, join Michelle on hers…
After quitting the rat race to study, Andy is usually found in the kitchen, baking and creating delicious snacks and meals for his five children and wife. However he is also known to share his culinary skills with the readers of his blog as well as his love of all things motoring over at www.dadscookingtonight.co.uk
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