Changing Direction

Funded Employment and Enterprise skills courses for unwaged women

Changing Direction provides funded, employment and enterprise skills courses for women who are unwaged, in receipt of benefits or looking to change careers.

This 6-week course is for you if you are:

  • In low paid work
  • Living on benefits
  • Have a long term health issue
  • A lone parent
  • A carer
  • Leaving domestic violence
  • Facing redundancy

And you are looking for a job, further education or self-employment.

The course will look at:

  • your skills
  • communication skills
  • confidence building
  • exploring how to use your skills to bring in an income
  • what next

These sessions are run in small, supportive groups. Please find the next running course dates via eventbrite.

This group has been very important because it's helped me to think [...] realise that it is important that women need to share with women to make advances.
Change Direction Now
changing direction, the growing club

The next course...

The Growing Club runs a number of Changing Direction courses at different times of the year. New courses will be added to Eventbrite for participants to book in advance.

Please contact us to be put on the waitlist for the next course if there are no courses showing on Eventbrite.

Book via Eventbrite

Past Courses

crafty women, the sowing club, lancaster
sunflowers, the sowing club, lancaster
crafty women, the growing club, morecambe, textile candy
women and enterprise hub, the sowing club
Read about our past courses

Branching Out

Skills Training Course for young women as part of the Employment and Enterprise skills training programme.

Branching Out

This course was a funded skills training course for women deemed to be economically inactive. The course covered: problem solving, confidence building, communication skills and more. The sessions were run in small supportive groups and the course was funded by the Francis C Scott Charitable Trust.

 

"This course encourages you to value yourself and your skills, grow in confidence, listen better and be creative."


"It’s an amazing course. It helps women to rediscover their self-confidence and the opportunities around them."


"This will give you confidence in yourself, and motivate you to get to the next step."


"It’s a course to focus on yourself and clarify your goals."

The next course...

The Growing Club runs a number of Changing Direction courses at different times of the year. New courses will be added to Eventbrite for participants to book in advance.

Please contact us to be put on the waitlist for the next course if there are no courses showing on Eventbrite.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Join the next course
big lottery fund, sponsor, funding, the growing club, the oswing club, lancashire, north west

Funded by the Big Lottery Fund.

european union social fund, ESF

Funded by the European Social Fund.

"The Sowing Club [Changing Direction] has been useful to meet women with tremendous passion for life, brilliant creative ideas and an attitude that will shape a great future for every one of us. Gaining support, being positive and overcoming adversity have been main themes, and I have benefited from the collective knowledge and input from Jane and Mandy. I have particularly benefited from the moral support, and challenges to think and speak positively about the future; to be creative; to get on with it. To believe I can do it. I have benefited from being encouraged about my own ideas and from the positivity in the room... I think the continued surrounding support ... will be vital to encourage and build my confidence."
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