Profile: Working for Women in Business ; Dinah Bennett Has Done More Than Many to Support the Creation and Management of Enterprises Run by Women

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It is a lucky few who have the kind of driving passion for their work that Dinah Bennett musters up effortlessly on a daily basis, and her outstanding contribution to promoting individual enterprises and supporting small business has been officially recognised by The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion (QAEP) that she received earlier this year.

Bennett is director of Women Into The Network (WIN), an organisation based at Durham Business School which supports the creation and management of businesses by women. Her career began more than 20 years ago when she worked in the Sudan on a women's business development programme. Bennett says: 'It struck me that although …