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A community & growth platform for women

Building confidence, connection and opportunity for women.

With Women is a community and growth platform bringing women together through connection, learning, coaching, wellbeing and collaboration.

We create spaces where women overcome isolation, build confidence, create lasting friendships and discover new opportunities.

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The challenge

Isolation is growing — and opportunity is unevenly shared.

Across our communities, women are becoming disconnected from the networks that support wellbeing, resilience and progression. The effects are quiet, cumulative and costly.

Loneliness

One in four women report feeling lonely often, with far fewer safe spaces to talk openly.

Isolation

Life changes — motherhood, caring, relocation, redundancy — quietly remove women from community life.

Reduced confidence

Long periods without connection or purpose erode self-belief and the willingness to try again.

Limited support networks

Many women have no one to turn to for encouragement, advice or practical help.

Feeling unseen

Women carry a great deal for others while their own goals and wellbeing go unnoticed.

Barriers to opportunity

Cost, childcare, transport and confidence keep employment, training and enterprise out of reach.

Connection is the foundation of wellbeing, resilience and personal growth.

Our model

Introducing The With Women Framework™

A clear, evidence-informed pathway that moves a woman from first hello to lasting contribution — and gives partners a delivery model with measurable outcomes.

  1. Step 1

    Connect

    • Community
    • Free Facebook community
    • Coffee mornings
    • Support
    • Friendship
  2. Step 2

    Learn

    • The Connection Pathway™
    • Structured twelve week programme
  3. Step 3

    Grow

    • Confidence
    • Coaching
    • Wellbeing
    • Skills
  4. Step 4

    Create

    • Networking
    • Employment
    • Business
    • Collaboration
  5. Step 5

    Contribute

    • Volunteering
    • Mentoring
    • Giving back
A Black facilitator leading a With Women Academy confidence workshop for a diverse group of women, including women using mobility aids and hearing devices

Delivery you can fund with confidence

Grassroots reach. Professional standards.

We combine trusted community relationships with structured programmes, safeguarding, evaluation frameworks and transparent reporting — so councils, funders and corporate partners know exactly what their investment delivers.

  • Improving wellbeing and reducing isolation
  • Building resilience and confidence
  • Creating pathways to employment and enterprise
  • Evidence based delivery with measurable outcomes

In their words

Belonging, in practice.

“I walked into a coffee morning knowing nobody. A year later I volunteer, I have real friendships and I've started my own small business.”
Sarah · Community member
“With Women delivers where formal services struggle to reach. Their reporting is thorough and their outcomes are genuine.”
Council commissioner · Local authority partner
“Our team volunteering day with With Women was the most meaningful CSR activity we have run.”
Regional employer · Corporate partner

Whether you need community or want to build it — there's a place for you here.

Trust & governance

Accountable, safeguarded and evidence led.

We work alongside funders, councils, employers and community organisations — with published policies, trained facilitators and outcomes measured at every stage of delivery.

Delivery partners

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Funders & grant providers

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Awards & recognition

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Community supporters

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With Women Academy delivers what it promises and reports on it properly. That combination is rare in grassroots delivery.
Grants Manager — Regional funding body
Our employee volunteering days with the Academy are the most requested CSR activity we run.
Head of Social Value — Corporate partner
I came for a coffee morning and stayed for the whole pathway. It genuinely changed the direction of my year.
Community member — Connection Pathway graduate

Policies & safeguarding

Our full policy suite is available to partners, funders and community members on request and published in summary here.