Join our Workshop Series – an online group programme of 3 consecutive workshops, where young women aged 18-30 facing a similar work-related challenge can connect and support each other. Each workshop is hosted via Zoom.
Finding Work
Are you looking for work? Do you want to connect with other young women and experts to help you figure out the next steps with your job search? Our Workshop Series can help!
Dates Every Tuesday for 3 weeks – Tuesday 16th , 23rd and 30th September 2025
Time 12-2pm
Duration 2 hours
Host Issy
What you’ll learn
- Gain clarity on what you want to do for work
- Understand what makes a great CV and standout application
- Identify and demonstrate transferable skills
- Tips to ace your next interview
- Practical steps to find work
Making a Change at Work
Are you feeling stuck at work? Do you want to connect with other young women and experts to help you figure out how to grow in your current role or move on? Our Workshop Series can help!
Dates Every Wednesday for 3 weeks – Wednesday 15th, 22nd + 29th October 2025.
Time 6-8pm
Duration 2 hours
Host Sarah
What you’ll learn
- Explore types of different career journeys
- Identify the skills and knowledge you have gained from your working experiences
- Discover models that help you to identify your passions, strengths, and career goals
- Understand the value of networking and develop networking skills
- Practical steps to make a change with your work situation
Sign up for Making Steps Towards Change
Navigating Work as Women of Colour
During this programme – designed and led by and for women of colour – you will build solidarity, share strategies, and find fresh ways of navigating work.
Dates Every Tuesday for 3 weeks – Tuesday 11th, 18th + 25th November 2025.
Time 6-8pm
Duration 2 hours
Host Lauren
What you’ll explore
- Reflect on your career journey so far, and how your race, identity and values have shaped your path
- Understand your rights at work, and how to advocate for yourself when it matters most
- Build confidence to show up fully, share your ideas, and trust in the value of your voice
- Learn tools to navigate microaggressions, bias, and workplace politics
- Identify your non-negotiables, set clearer boundaries, and spot early signs of burnout
- Understand the power of diversity of thought, and the value you bring to spaces that weren’t built with you in mind
- Share space, stories and strategies with other women of colour navigating their own paths.
Sign up for navigating Work as Women of Colour
Why attend the Workshop Series
- You’ll connect in a friendly space with a group of young women in a similar situation.
- You’ll learn from engaging speakers.
- You’ll break out into small groups to work on activities and share your own reflections, ideas and experiences to help others.
- You’ll be encouraged and supported to be yourself.
- You’ll come out with actions to support your work journey.
The Workshop Series is not…
- a drop-in programme – commitment to attend all workshops is required.
- a counselling service.
- an individual coaching service.
Who can take part in the Workshop Series?
Our services are for young women aged 18 to 30 living in England or Wales. If you are a trans woman or identify as non-binary and comfortable being supported by a women’s service, we’re happy to help you.
We encourage those who face the biggest challenges with money, jobs, and unpaid work to sign up. This includes working-class women, racially marginalised young women, and disabled young women.
Meet our alumni
Hundreds of young women have taken part in the Workshop Series at Young Women’s Trust. Hear about their experience and how it supported their work journey.
