SIR,

As a training centre in the Monmouth area, we are extremely keen to provide as much support and encouragement as possible to local working mums.

We understand how difficult things are at the moment, especially for women, as the recent unemployment figures have shown.

So to celebrate working mums' achievements and provide a much needed confidence boost, we're supporting an award to find the UK's 2011 Working Mum of the Year.

We're really keen that mums from our area have the chance to enter and I'd like to encourage your readers to nominate a special mum in their lives.

The top prize is a family villa for a week, plus pampering treats.

So if any of your readers are, or know of, a working mum who is going the extra mile, they need to visit workingmumoftheyear.com to nominate.

The closing date is midnight on Sunday 23rd October.

The winner will be crowned at a prestigious event in November.

Good luck to everyone who enters.

Martin Ladd

(Pitman Training Bristol North)