Get printed copies of Athena Magazine in Schools & Libraries

Hi, we're Fran and Stacey, co-founders of Athena Magazine, a new magazine for female business owners in Devon.

Athena Magazine aims to empower Devon-based women in business with actionable insights, inspiring stories, and a supportive community. We hope to provide support to help you thrive and a place to celebrate your successes.

In creating this magazine we hope to showcase relatable mentors, role models and networks that will inspire not only local women, but also the next generation of women who are still coming through the education system.

The magazine will be free to read, and available online (particularly at first), although we would love to get issues printed and distributed for free to schools, local libraries and other community spaces where we can reach aspiring female entrepreneurs and show them what is possible. It is important to meet women where they are and in the spaces that they spend time.

We want to get it into secondary schools because we really feel that there is no clear pathway into entrepreneurship. If you want to be a Dr or a carpenter or join the armed forces there is a clear pathway. You know you need to go to school, get GCSE's and A-Levels, go to uni or do an apprenticeship or enrol in the forces. It's pretty clear cut. But if you decide you want to start your own business, what are the steps there? Nobody really knows because there is no clear pathway. A recent poll by Santander found that 76% of Gen Z plan to be their own boss in the future. And the world of work is changing so rapidly due to technological advancements and the introduction of AI, who knows whether many of the jobs we have today will even exist when they are of working age. It is vital that children are exposed to entrepreneurship and believe that it is an option and know where to go if they do decide to follow that path.

Printing is expensive, and although we have raised some money through advertising spaces in the magazine, much of this is used to cover the costs of creating the magazine. We'd love to raise £1000 towards the cost of getting physical issues printed. we already have contacts who can help us get the issues into schools and libraries, we just need to raise enough money to get them printed.