ABOUT BARBARA CAMPBELL
CEO of Barb Wire Enterprises Ltd

Honours & accolades: Winner: BFIIN/GWIIN Global Woman of Invention & Innovation Award 2005 (specially recognised for her work to promote women);
Winner: Best print media – EFBWBO Award 2003-4.
Finalist: London African Caribbean Enterprise Awards 2004.
Finalist: African Caribbean Positive Image Foundation (ACPIF) Award 2002.

Publisher and Editor of LIVE listings Magazine - the only multicultural listings publication in the UK that combines arts and business and the positive side of youth, Barbara Campbell is former editor of The Journal Newspaper (sister paper to The Voice).

Barbara’s career began in 1994 when she was offered a job as a journalist by The Voice whilst still a student studying journalism. She became editor within two years of working with the company. She has freelanced with several mainstream publications including The Independent on Sunday and Ms London.

Until June 2000 she was training director for an Institute that specialised in journalism, responsible for co-writing and overseeing the NVQ Level 4 course / syllabus that students followed in order to become competent in mainstream press.

She cashed in her life insurance when banks would not fund her and launched her Award-winning publication, which is seen as the multicultural version of Time Out in 2000, after identifying the huge gap in the market for people of varied nationalities to learn of events happening in their own backyards. She is innovativeand likes to produce publications that she does not believe are already on the market.

A former Board Member of the NUJ’s Black Members Council, Barbara believes in giving back to the community. She regularly lectures at colleges and universities on the topic of print journalism and gives two weeks every year to SASS and the From Boyhood to Manhood Foundation where she mentors children from age 14 plus. She’s is also on the selection committee of The Eagle Award, contribute to Parkview Academy’s annual Enterprise Day, and works closely with The Property Millionaires Annual Balls, who annually champions a charity of their choice. Barbara own charity is the RNIB which she donates to every year.

The single mother of two, who won ‘Best Print Media’ in the European Federation of Black Women Business Owners Award in 2003, has been a correspondent on BEN Television during 2004 and was also recently asked to serve as a Trutee on the Board of the Chinese Information & Advice Centre.
Her most recent post is that of a contributing presenter on New Style Radio based in Birmingham. She is currently on air for half an hour every Friday morning.

International Women’s Month IWM Magzine (UK) was a concept by Barbara Campbell. She had actually celebrated and acknowledged IWM for some years along with others in the UK, but it was not until 2003 that she decided to dedicate a publication to it, hence the bith of The Official Guide To International Women’s Month, launched in 2004 with the support of the Mayor of London who champions Diversity and Equality and is particularly supportive of women’s issues.