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Funded courses for women who are unwaged 

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The Sowing Club

Funded Employment and Enterprise skills courses for unwaged women

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

This 15-hour course is for any women who would like to explore their options for employment, education or self-employment.*

The courses will look at:

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

Women completing the course who are interested in starting a business, can then feed into the next start-up course, Roots & Shoots, for 12-months of taught input and support from other women running businesses, to make sure that your business has the best possible chance of growing.

*Please note that self-employment is not about zero-hour contracts, but learning to run a sustainable business that will enable you to contribute to the community’s economic growth.

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.
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So, what programmes do we run?

The Sowing Club runs a variety of courses at different times of the year.
Our current programme will re-start after lockdown.

Next Sowing Club face-to-face starting dates: 

Lancaster: In progress
Morecambe: 21st April 2022

Branching Out

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

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Branching Out

This course is a funded skills training course for women who are deemed to be economically inactive. The course will look at problem solving, confidence building, communication skills and more. These sessions are run in small supportive groups.


This course is funded by the Francis C Scott Charitable Trust and course details can be found here. Please make your interest known by getting in touch.


"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."

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"The Sowing Club 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 of the Sowing Club women will be vital to encourage and build my confidence."
- A.T -

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If you are interested in finding out more about The Sowing Club and the programmes currently running, please get in using the contact details below.

We look forward to hearing from you.

  • 07892 712417
  • The Women & Enterprise Hub, 6-0-5, Alston House, White Cross, Lancaster, LA1 4XQ
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Funded by the Big Lottery Fund.

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Funded by the European Social Fund.