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Planning your return
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Returning To Work After Maternity Leave: The Ultimate UK Guide For Mums
Returning To Work After Maternity Leave: The Ultimate UK Guide For Mums Updated May 2026 Written by Abbie Coleman, a recruitment expert with more than 23 years’ experience, including over 12 years running her own consultancy across the UK. Alongside her work supporting businesses and senior hires, Abbie has spent years helping women navigate maternity…
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Returning to Work Part-Time – What To Consider
So You’ve Decided to Return to Work Part-Time: What You Need to Consider Abbie Coleman is a seasoned expert with a diverse background spanning over 25 years in recruitment. With 12 years of owning her own recruitment firm in the heart of Leeds, she brings a wealth of experience in talent acquisition and management. Additionally,…
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Balancing Work And Motherhood After Maternity Leave
Balancing Work And Motherhood After Maternity Leave Returning and balancing your Return to Work are the goals for working parents. Accessing a fulfilling career whilst managing childcare or other responsibilities is one of the biggest hurdles mums can face, especially mums returning to the workplace. We are firm believers in ‘having it all’ BUT, we also…
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Mindset for Returning to Work After Maternity
Your maternity leave has disappeared in a blink of an eye, but it seems like an eternity since your last day at work. You have spent months making sure the arrangements are in place to allow your return to go as smoothly as possible. You’ve agreed your working hours, organised childcare, stocked your freezer and…
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How to Prepare for a Return to Work
Preparing to re-enter the workforce after leaving to raise a family can feel like a daunting prospect. Making the decision to return to work is a big deal, and you may feel undecided whether it is the right choice. Leaving your kids at home and heading back to work outside the home is a significant…
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Realistic return-to-work plan after maternity leave
Are you looking to return to work? Not sure how to start that journey? Are you looking to return to work? Not sure how to start that journey? Well, having experienced returning myself and also now supporting others I understand how daunting it may seem, however, please don’t forget how exhilarating it can be. I…
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Tech Returners – You can have it all…
In April 2018 the gender pay gap report stated a 18.6% gap in technology which highlights the lack of female talent at senior levels and this is backed by the research that there is only 5% of females in senior roles in tech in the UK– we can all hazard a guess what is happening…
Feel Confident Again
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Returning To Work After Maternity Leave: The Ultimate UK Guide For Mums
Returning To Work After Maternity Leave: The Ultimate UK Guide For Mums Updated May 2026 Written by Abbie Coleman, a recruitment expert with more than 23 years’ experience, including over 12 years running her own consultancy across the UK. Alongside her work supporting businesses and senior hires, Abbie has spent years helping women navigate maternity…
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How to Build Lasting Confidence
Confidence is a skill that can be developed and nurtured over time. Whether you’re aiming to excel in your career, strengthen relationships, or pursue personal goals, confidence plays a pivotal role in your success and well-being. Building lasting confidence involves a combination of self-awareness, mindset shifts, and consistent action. Here’s a comprehensive guide to help…
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Imposter Syndrome After Maternity Leave
Although sometimes it can feel that way. In a world of airbrushed insta lives, it’s very easy to feel that we’re not doing enough, that we don’t deserve to be where we are or to go after we want. If that sounds like you, you’re not alone, Imposter Syndrome is something which affects most of…
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#LeaveLoudly #ReturnLouder – Maternity Leave Campaign
“We don’t believe maternity leave should be seen as a negative point in a working woman’s career and we sure as hell think she should come back stronger than ever as a business professional, no apologies. “ Abbie Coleman – MMB Magazine Founder Launch of #LeaveLoudly #ReturnLouder Campaign Abbie Coleman is a seasoned expert with…
Returner Opportunities
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Retraining At 40
By FDM Group There are many different reasons you may want to retrain at 40, be that to prepare for a career change, return to work after a career break or even make the transition from the military into a civilian role. Whatever your reason, it is never too late to get back to business…
Top TIps for Returners
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Returning To Work After Maternity Leave: The Ultimate UK Guide For Mums
Returning To Work After Maternity Leave: The Ultimate UK Guide For Mums Updated May 2026 Written by Abbie Coleman, a recruitment expert with more than 23 years’ experience, including over 12 years running her own consultancy across the UK. Alongside her work supporting businesses and senior hires, Abbie has spent years helping women navigate maternity…
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Breastfeeding At Work
Breastfeeding at work: For many women, returning to work after maternity leave can feel like a daunting prospect. From re-familiarising themselves with the day-to-day responsibilities of their role, through to re-acquainting themselves with colleagues and clients and ensuring that all of their relevant qualifications and accreditations are up to date, the first few weeks and…
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How to mentally prepare for returning to work after maternity leave
Before, your focus was on your due date and the big day; it has now come around to facing the working world again. So how do you return to work after maternity? Abbie Coleman is a seasoned expert with a diverse background spanning over 25 years in recruitment. With 12 years of owning her own…
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6 Tips To Help Get Back Into Work As A Working Mum
6 Tips To Help Get Back Into Work As A Working Mum You manage everything as a working mother (or father). You have demanding work, a family to care for, and only 24 hours in each day. One such duty is looking for a new job. Here are seven suggestions for working mothers to use…
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Tips for Parents Returning to the Workforce
Are you looking to return to work? Not sure how to start that journey? When you are considering returning to the workforce, fields such as data science may seem way out of the park for you. But they aren’t. The truth is that any return to work situation is going to feel way out of…
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How To Successfully Return To Work Ater Maternity Leave Without Burning Out
MMB Magazine is passionate about supporting women returners and works to be ring you the best returner content to support your return to work. How To Successfully Return To Work After Maternity Leave Without Burning Out Return to work tips Returning to work after maternity leave can hold a range of emotions from excitement through…
Other Mum’s Experiences
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Open Letter: Mum shares Highs and Lows of Returning to the Office
An open letter from a return to work mum one of our MMB Magazine readers. MMB Magazine are passionate about working with the working mum space to help support working mum / women returners back into the workplace. Read a letter from one of our readers about her return to work. If your looking for…
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Open Letter From A Working Mum – The Price We Pay
Revisiting the first open letter from a working mum series, from one of our readers that went viral, starting a series of open letters, back in 2016. Where do I start this is my open letter from a working mum ; at times I feel very much alone as my husband’s job means he works…
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Apologising for Working Part-time
By Emma Hopkins Jones If you had asked me a few months ago what the most important day of the working week was then I would probably have said Friday. Tuesday the most important day of the week? Often in my line of work we receive and send letters with a deadline for reply “by…
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Letter From A Returner Working Mum – Project Fob Off!
A open letter from one of our well known readers from Admissions Of A Working Mother. Does this ring true with you? MMB Magazine is passionate about supporting women returners back into work and careers, working to bring you strong returner content and answering any questions about returning to work you may have and sign…
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Open Letter: How I Became Stronger as a Working Mum
Our latest in our series of open letters from our #workingmum readers for MMB Magazine. Dear Sophie I am writing to confirm your appointment to the post of Director of Maths from 1st September. This was the start of the letter I received 2 years to the day after I had returned from maternity leave. My…
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Working Mother’s Open Letter to her Husband
A heartfelt letter from a working mother to her husband. Dear Husband As I sit here watching you coo over our 7 week old second child, I realise my mind is currently a washing machine on fast spin. A bundle of different emotions, thoughts and ideas all rushing around uncontrollably at the same time. I…
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Open Letter From A Young Mum
As part of our open letter series, one of our readers tells us her journey as a new working mum at 21. To MMB I have worked in a set of Barristers Chambers as an Office Junior from the age of 16. Two years later I was promoted to Barristers Clerk. At the young age of…
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A Returner’s Story from a Working Mother
We have been speaking with so many working mums about their returner stories, the good the bad and the ugly stories. We will be featuring returner stories all through November 2018. So if you have a story please contact us on abbie@mmbmagazine.co.uk. A Mortgage Advisors Maternity Returner Journey Read our popular Return to Work After…