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A new business designed to empower female entrepreneurs and promote brands created by women has launched in Newcastle.

Rebecca Marley has founded The Fempowerment Box to champion women by providing them with lifestyle products that have been designed and created by female entrepreneurs.

The subscription service sees a box containing six to eight lifestyle products delivered to the customer each season.

The products range from skincare brands, to accessories, wellness, homeware, and stationary. Each of the products has been selected to help raise the self-esteem of customers, after a survey found that only 20% of British women feel satisfied with how they look.

Ms Marley has launched The Fempowerment Box after founding We Are Auburn, an online publication focused on improving the confidence of its readers. Since the website launched in January, it has gained a strong readership and more than 5,000 followers on Instagram.

She said: “To me, female empowerment is a call to action to support girls and women in self-actualising their inner power and while we are each a powerful force alone, we are all the more powerful when we’re united in sisterhood.

“We want to give our fempire the confidence to conquer their world - whatever their world may be - and inspire them to live more empowered lives through discovery, content and community. Fempowerment is more than just a box, it is a membership to The Fempire: a community of powerful women ready to lift each other up.”

The 25-year-old launched the company after graduating from Newcastle University and working for three years in an advertising agency. She then joined the Ignite Accelerator programme to work on her own business idea.