Women Supporting Women: Business mentor training programme

By The Growing Club CIC

19 Mar 2021

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The Growing Club CIC is now accepting applications for business mentors to support our latest cohort of women in business on the start-up programme. Mentorship 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 strengthen your leaderships skills, support your CPD and enable you to apply for paid mentoring opportunities.

This is a three-session course, running on Thursday 22nd April, 29th April and 6th May 2021. Sessions will run from 09.30 – 12.30 via Zoom or in Lancaster.

You are required to attend all sessions.

Is it for me?

This funded opportunity is for you if you:

are a woman running a small business in the Lancaster District have been trading for at least three years can remember how hard the first few years in business can be! want to support a woman starting her own small business  can commit to a face-to-face session an hour a month for three years understand the importance of mentoring as a tool of empowerment

Application

The training is free if you commit to working with your mentee for three years. If we have spaces available, we are able to open up this training to others at a cost of £750.

Training will be delivered by Paul Aisthorpe and Nicola Combe.

For more information, please email [email protected] or call 07521 314926. Alternatively, you can download an application form here.

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