Owner of Rose Cottage Doggy Daycare wins regional award

Dawn Brown, the owner of Chesterfield’s Rose Cottage Doggy Daycare, has won a coveted prize at the East Midlands Chamber Enterprising Women Awards.

Brown walked away with the Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the gala dinner, held at Leicester Tigers’ Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium.

She told Chesterfield News: “People see business owners like swans swanning about doing as they please, but what they don’t see are our legs going like the clappers underneath to hold it all together, especially women in business. We hold down a family, I have five kids and a fiancée so you could say six kids.

“At Rose Cottage we look after 50 dogs a day, with a team of seven people working with me. So this award means so much more to me personally because it’s recognition for all that hard work and dedication that people do not necessarily see.”