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 ...
Sow and Grow…The Sowing Club Course Returns
In collaboration with the European Social Fund and Adult Learning Within Reach, we are pleased to be able to offer places at The Sowing Club - a fully-funded six-week skills training course for women in Lancashire. The course starts on the 12 January 2021 in Morecambe and will run for six Tuesdays ...
December at The Growing Club: What’s On?
The final month of the year and we're sure most people are ready to wave bye-bye to 2020 and welcome 2021 in what will hopefully be a better, happier and healthier year for us all. Here's our round-up of what's happening at The Growing Club in December and running into January in the New Year. ...
Christmas Cheer, Anyone?!
What a year it has been! With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating our year and lives, socialising properly in person has been all but a distant memory. So we may not be able to meet in person all together like we usually would, but we can still party on Zoom! Join us online for a Christmas get-toge ...
WISE Woman of Lancaster: Jane Binnion!
We're delighted to announce that our founding director, Jane Binnion, has been nominated for the Women of Inspiration list: The WISE List 2020, where 100 leading women have been nationally recognised for their contribution to UK social enterprise and impact investing d ...
November at The Growing Club: What’s On?
As the autumn creeps in with its beautiful colours and cooler temperatures, we are now in the second lockdown in the UK, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, our work at The Growing Club continues, albeit mostly virtually! You can find all of the workshops and courses that are on offer ...
Lancashire Women’s Peer Network
The Growing Club CIC is delighted to be part of the government initiative, Peer Networks, which brings together a diverse group of business owners and senior leaders as a group in a safe space, to discuss business challenges and how they can be overcome. The initiative will be delivered through ...
Support for Women-in-Business – in Lancaster, Lancashire & Beyond
Something for every woman-in-business in Lancaster, Lancashire and beyond. Affordable and funded support for you, and your business We know this is the hardest of times and so many of us are weary, but if you have started to turn your attention towards your business or employment possibili ...
Bloom and Grow Goes Global!
Are you a woman running a small business which has been impacted by the pandemic? Then we have some good news! Pandemic problems We don’t need to tell you that the pandemic has been hard on all of us who run small businesses and not-for-profit organisations. Many of us had a crash-cou ...
Back Her Business
In September 2019, The Growing Club became a regional business support delivery partner for the NatWest Back Her Business Initiative. It has been a big concern for us that women starting a business can't get seed funding, and if someone is starting a business from being on state benefits, which ...