Grow: Empowering Women into Work
Practical, personal, expert support – designed for women who want to get ready for work.
In Person GRoW Programme (with Ingeus)
This hybrid program combines in-person sessions, online access, and App support to empower up to 12 women anywhere in London.
- Onboarding with tailored support using Earlybird Conversations
- Three two-hour group sessions at your site during school hours
- One-to-one support with an adviser for action planning, CV building and interview practice
- Personalised childcare plan using chatbot tech
- Six months access to the award-winning GRoW App
- Full access to 10 monthly online sessions including CVs, Interviews, AI for jobsearch, Coffee Mornings and more
Online GRoW Programme (with Jobs 22)
This 12-week program can be joined at any time and is ideal for women who need confidence, motivation and support to get ready for work.
Cost: £150 per participant
- Personalised onboarding and welcome information
- Five essential online workshops to gain the GRoW Certificate:
- Grow Bootcamp: confidence and motivation
- Finding and paying for childcare
- Elevator statement and returner support
- Flexible working rights and options
- Using AI to find a job
- Access to GRoW App with 10+ daily posts, sessions, advice and opportunities
- Interview practice and personalised childcare plan
- Specialist mentoring for women facing additional barriers (e.g., domestic abuse, neurodivergence, carers)
- Multilingual mentor team: Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Ukrainian, Russian and more
GRoW Train the Trainer
We offer a Train the Trainer programme endorsed by IEP. It enables organisations to deliver the GRoW model internally with expert-led support and specialist materials.
- Delivered by GRoW experts Mercedes Grant and Liz Sewell
- Includes fidelity model, mentoring methods, and tools to adapt for diverse needs
- Ongoing access to GRoW App and training resources
- Boosts organisational capacity and embeds specialist support for women
Why specialist employability support for women?
Not all women need additional support – but many do. Some are single parents, carers, or have been out of the workforce for years. Others are refugees, survivors of domestic abuse, or parents of children with special needs.
GRoW provides tailored help with confidence, childcare, flexible work, and skills-building to move women into work faster – and help them stay there.
Our proven model is cost-effective, impactful and ready to deliver – online or in person.
Want to partner with GRoW?
We’re here to deliver for your participants. Contact us to learn more, request our leaflet for advisers, or refer someone today.
A new era needs new ideas
Changes to Universal Credit and Childcare support mean more women returners will need employability support. The economically inactive are being challenged to get a job and need extra help. New rules on flexible working will change the way work is advertised. If you support women returners this training can transform your offer.
The training is interactive and packed with information and insights from the award winning GRoW Team + a years’ free subscription to the GRoW App Adviser Group.
- Updates on new legislation on benefits, childcare and flexible working
- The tools you need to support women returners
- Insights from the Award winning GRoW Team into the most effective ways to support women into sustained work
- A years free subscription to the GROW App Adviser Group worth £60
Cost
£145
Two places £250, three places £300
Register and we will send full details with invoice to follow
Venues
- London: PDT, London W2 5ES
- Birmingham The Studio, B2 5EP
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Training Agenda
9.45 am – 10.00 am
Registration and welcome
10.00 am – 11.15 am Understanding women returners: barriers and solutions to sustained work.
11.15 – 11.30 break
11.30 am – 12.45 noon
The new agenda – what is changing in Universal Credit, childcare and flexible working.
12.45 – 1.30 Lunch: provided
1.30 pm – 2.30 pm
Building your adviser toolbox – including your introduction to the GRoW App Adviser Group
2.30 – 2.45 Break
2.45 pm – 3.30 pm
Developing your candidates Confidence and motivation – an intro to the GRoW Programme training the trainer
3.30 pm -3.50 pm
Your Action Plan
3.50pm to 4.00 pm Evaluation and close
Full documentation, link to the GRoW App, refreshments and lunch will be provided to delegates.
Check out our two day Training the Trainer in-house programme here