Young Women Branching Out
Our latest course, Branching Out, will help unwaged young women to explore skills and training options available to them. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted young women particularly hard, resulting in reduced employment and future job opportunities. Young Women Hit Hardest in COVID-19 Pandemic ...
Women & Money: Exploring Savings & Investments for Beginners
We have an excellent event coming up this month, led by money experts Cleona Lira and Rebecca O'Connor. They'll be talking about financial investments that aren't just for the rich. Worries about money and financial independence affect most women. And with the change of the pension age many wom ...
How Do You Ask For What You Want?
The Growing Club's Wellbeing Officer, Sarah Ludford, talks about when, why and how you can ask for what you want. We're also running a workshop, led by Sarah, on this topic. Information and booking is at the end of this article. Sarah Ludford Helping Others to Help Ourselves Some of us are ...
Mentor Training Course for Women Business Owners
The Growing Club CIC is training a second group of mentors to support our start-up group. Mentoring plays an important role in supporting women in business and is recommended as a strategy for supporting recovery and long-term sustainability. This is a comprehensive training course that will str ...
International Women’s Day 2021
Today is International Women's Day 2021 (IWD), where we celebrate achievements and gains in gender equality, whilst still continuing the challenge to strive for further gains on a global level for a more gender-equal world. This year's theme is Choose to Challenge, encouraging women to continue ...
Wellbeing in March
Heading into spring with bounce or do you need a little extra support? However you're feeling, we've got you covered with another packed month of The Wellbeing Programme, delivered by expert facilitators and wellness specialists and designed especially for women. We’ve created a handy downloadab ...
The Peer Listening Project
Just listen to me! We all need a good listening to from time to time. This year, with all the challenges we have faced during 2020, we need it more than ever. At the same time, we have been less able to be around friends and spend time together, so although we have the phone, zoom, social media ...
Wellbeing in February
New month, new initiatives! We're still busy creating support systems for women in business, and indeed, all women who would like to access our wellbeing sessions. We've created a handy guide below to The Wellbeing Programme for February, for the workshops and events that are scheduled for Febru ...
Self-Compassion
This is an introduction to Self-Compassion, by The Growing Club's Wellbeing officer, Sarah Ludford. Sarah will be running a Self-Compassion Series, starting on the 26th February 2021. Find out more here. Compassion is an old word that is getting used a lot more of late but how many of ...
The Growing Club Stories: Soaad Patel
Soaad Patel is the owner of Ayesha’s Attire, an independent boutique providing high-quality clothing that helps busy women dress well to feel good. Here she shares her story about how her business started, and how The Growing Club has helped her gain confidence and create solid business foundations ...
January at The Growing Club: What’s On?
Hello and welcome to 2021! Yes, we are once again encased in COVID-19 impacts, with the UK currently in another lockdown situation. Fortunately, we're here for you with Wellbeing January (and beyond)! We're delighted to have been awarded funding from the fabulous Smallwood Trust. As a result of ...
Winter Wellbeing
Join us over the festive period to reflect back on 2020 and get ready to embrace with positivity, whatever 2021 will bring. To help you prepare, we've got some refreshing, rejuvenating and relaxing wellbeing offerings for you. A Winter Wellbeing helping hand. Wednesday 23rd of December, 11am: Jo ...