The NatWest Everywoman awards celebrate female entrepreneurs, in particular those who have overcome personal and financial difficulties. So what has winning meant to previous contestants?

Former beauty salon owner Sandra McClumpha, from Bothwell, near Glasgow, won the Athena award in 2006. Sandra’s business began after she came across Fake Bake, a successful American self-tanning lotion. Realising its potential, Sandra bought the UK licence to the brand in 2001.

At the time, Sandra, now 40, was a single mother of Louis, now 8, and with another baby on the way, Natalia, now 6. She sold her beauty salon and car to fund the business, with the result that Fake Bake is now available in 5,000 beauty salons throughout the UK and in stores such as Harrods.

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