Voices

Samaira and Lauren, members of our Young Women’s Advisory Panel, share their experiences of being on the panel and the importance of young women’s involvement in our work.

Cyan is running in the London Landmarks Half Marathon to raise money for Young Women’s Trust. She shares what motivated her to take on the challenge and how she is progressing with her training programme.

Polly shares with us how important coaching was to her at the beginning of the pandemic. She explains how coaching worked for her and how her coach, Yasmin, helped her to see that opportunities will come along.

We spoke to 4 of our Work It Out Ambassadors, Timah, Elena, Gina and Nazrin, to ask them about their experience of our free CV feedback service for women aged 18 to 30.

Iulia, a Research Centre Associate explains her experience of becoming a peer researcher. She reflects on her experience of the peer research programme and the importance of this work.

Gemma lost her retail job at the start of the pandemic. In this blog she explains what it is like to live on Universal Credit and why the £20 benefit uplift is vital to helping her life and her future.

Research Centre Associate Freya explains why peer research makes discussing mental health issues easier.

Siobhan shares how her Work It Out Coach Jeffrey helped her to set goals and focus on what is important to her in both her professional and personal life.

Samaira talks about being a Mum in a pandemic and shares what she wants from the government.

In this blog young activist Rox writes about our pre-election panel event. She shares what attending this event meant as an activist, young Disabled woman and a voter.

This week Hannah tells us about her experience of giving evidence to Matt Hancock and Mims Davies, as part of the government’s call for evidence for the new Women’s Health Strategy.

To celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked two of our Advisory Panel members why they love working in STEM.