The Women's Work Lab

Our Mums are on countdown to work placements! We have 60 Mums across the South West who will be starting work placements at so many brilliant organisations after half term. Cleopatra (pictured below) is spending four weeks at the brilliant Burges Salmon LLP where she will be experiencing many different areas of the business. Meanwhile down in Somerset our Programme Manager Fern Davies met with Tamsyn and the team at water2business recently. Water2Business will be hosting two of our mum's on placement this November for the first time. Whilst there they will be spending 4 weeks across a number of departments alongside learning all about the organisation and their aims. Do get in touch if your organisation is interested in hosting work placements with us - we have three intakes every year; November, February and June and we work with organisations of all different sizes right across the South West. #backtowork #workplacements #womeninbusiness

Do you have vacancies you’d like to advertise to our talented graduates? Women’s Work Lab can support you to directly reach a diverse range of potential candidates. We can connect you to our 400+ Women's Work Lab graduates from across the South West, a talented pool of women eager to kick start their careers. Our graduates bring fresh perspectives, enthusiasm, and a willingness to learn, making them valuable assets to any organisation. We would love to hear from businesses that would like to share their roles with us and use our extensive network to find the perfect match. For more details on the next steps please contact us at Talent@womensworklab.co.uk

Do you have vacancies you’d like to advertise to our talented graduates? Women’s Work Lab can support you to directly reach a diverse range of potential candidates. We can connect you to our 400+ Women's Work Lab graduates from across the South West, a talented pool of women eager to kick start their careers. Our graduates bring fresh perspectives, enthusiasm, and a willingness to learn, making them valuable assets to any organisation. We would love to hear from businesses that would like to share their roles with us and use our extensive network to find the perfect match. For more details on the next steps please contact us at Talent@womensworklab.co.uk

Applications are still open for our Communications Manager role and close on Friday 🥰 Details on our website https://lnkd.in/dcCnMzxz and please apply by emailing our Co-Founder Rachel Mostyn rachel@womensworklab.co.uk.

We love it when our graduates come back to visit our programmes and share their stories with our current Mums. The fantastic Jo, now working as a support worker and bakery lead at Step and Stone bakery, came to visit us at Cribbs Causeway. Exactly one year ago she was sat in the same place as the wonderful current cohort. As ever our mums had lots of questions, wanted to know the good and the bad but most of all, they were all inspired by her. And then in Bridgwater we were over the moon to welcome the amazing Fathima, who currently volunteers as a teaching assistant while she awaits her settled status. As Fathima says; " From Day 1 I started to gain self-confidence. The course was designed to allow us to use and share our experiences to move forward. Since graduating I am able to use all that I have learned. Now I am a very confident woman who is ready to face the world with many dreams." Thank you so much both Jo and Fathima! #PowerInPeer #WWL #backtowork #womeninspiringwomen

This is one example of the exceptional support that our Talent Team provides our mums, in the 9 months after they graduate from our core training programme. It's part of the ongoing journey to help our Mums see their strengths and match them with employers that can appreciate their brilliance ❣️💫

This is amazing Women's Work Lab graduate Abby Tweddle who just started a new role at Weston College. We couldn't be more thrilled for her ❤️ We are very much in full programme swing here - currently have 60 Mums across 4 different programmes and our Programme Managers are busy matching Mums with placement partners ahead of work placements after half term. We have a few matches to go and would love to hear from any businesses in Bristol and South Glos that may be able to offer our Mums experience in an office environment for three days a week (9.30-2.30pm) for 4 weeks (w/b Nov 4). This is a vital part of our programmes as it's a chance for our Mums to shadow and really experience the working world again and build confidence. It doesn't matter what sector you are in, it's much more about offering the support. Do please get in touch with Paige our South Glos Programme Manager or paige@womensworklab.co.uk or Sophia in Bristol sophia@womensworklab.co.uk to find out more. #workexperience #workplacements #backtowork

Please join us in welcoming 60 amazing Mums to our latest programmes in Bristol, South Glos, Weston-super-Mare and Bridgwater 💕💕 Everyone has settled in so well and we can't wait to see how things unfold over the next few months. Here is to more Mums finding work that works for them and their families 🥰 #backtowork #employmentsupport #womeninbusiness #womensupportingwomen

Wonderful way to start the week - we're now looking for a Communications Manager to join our team. Please follow the application instructions in the job description and email rachel@womensworklab.co.uk with any questions. We do not have any budget set aside for recruitment agencies so please only contact us if you're happy to offer your service pro bono. We're excited for this next person to join our team ✨ Rachel Mostyn Camilla Rigby

Check out our training dream team! Our Autumn programmes kick off next week and we are so excited to welcome 60 Mums to programmes in 4 different locations; Bristol, South Glos, Weston-super-Mare and Bridgwater. Our fantastic Programme Managers Fern, Paige and Sophia (a WWL graduate who has recently been promoted to Bristol PM!) work so hard with our Mums to get them to this point. We never underestimate what it takes to step out of a comfort zone and our PMs are there with our Mums every step of the journey. Now next week it's time for our Mums to enter the classroom and meet their brilliant trainers. These ladies have masses of experience in L&D and facilitation and will be supporting our Mums to make the next right step for them. Iona Alisea Devaughn will be working with our Mums in South Gloucestershire where the training is being held at johnlewis Cribbs Causeway thanks to our brilliant partnership with them. In Weston-super-Mare we have the awesomely talented Liz Ogborne and then brilliant Rebecca Underwood in Bristol and finally lovely Sophie Windsor in Bridgwater. A special welcome to Sophie who also recently joined the team as our Training & Compliance Manager. And finally not forgetting the fabulous Rae Harper who will be taking some sessions and supporting our Bath mums again next year. We can't wait to start the journey with our new Mums and see where it takes us... Shout out to everyone else in our amazing team as the weeks leading up to new programmes are FULL ON including Anna Wheeler, Samantha Cuffy, Sarafina F., Jenease Augustine, Stephanie Rajpura, Louise Duggan, Jenease Augustine, Magda Dworakowska, Chloe L., Timea Martha-Turik, Camilla Rigby Rachel Mostyn #backtowork #training #employmentsupport #workthatworks #womeninbusiness