Become an AWE (Accelerating Women's Enterprise) Mentor

Would you like to support and empower a woman on her entrepreneurial journey? Through our mentor training programme we can train you to pass on your skills and experience to women and help them address their barriers to entrepreneurship.

To be a mentor you must:

have run a successful business for at least 3 years, either currently or in the past

or

be a professional with business-relevant skills (such as book-keeping, accounting, social media, risk management, etc)

What does it cost?

Absolutely nothing beyond your attendance and engagement with the course.

Programme Details

Dates and times

This programme will be delivered via a combination of online independent learning, and group sessions via Zoom.

Once registered, we will send you login details for the online portal. There will be 3 modules that will take you approx 1hr 15mins each to complete.

The zoom session dates are as follows:

• Tuesday 23rd November, 6pm-7.30pm
• Wednesday 24th November, 6pm-7.30pm
• Thursday 25th November, 6pm-7.30pm

Once training has been completed, we will match you with a mentee, a female entrepreneur who faces additional barriers to self-employment, giving you some first hand experience in mentoring and putting your learning into practice.

If you have any enquiries about this course before you register, please email: awe@port.ac.uk

Accelerating Women’s Enterprise (AWE) is a collaborative project funded by the European Union’s Interreg Programme to support women's entrepreneurship in the UK and France.

We're part of a network of organisations either side of the English Channel researching and delivering support to address the gender entrepreneurship imbalance through training and mentoring. Accelerating Women’s Enterprise is supported by the Interreg Programme, who are contributing €2,641,184.73 of European Regional Development Funds, to address economic and social issues in regions on either side of the Channel.

Through the AWE programme, we plan to help more female founders develop entrepreneurial skills and get support to set up and grow their businesses. Between 2019 and 2020, the number of new businesses launched in Portsmouth grew by 33%, making us the UK's most entrepreneurial city 2020 (Instant Offices). We want to make sure women are an integral part of the city's entrepreneurial growth in the future.

For more information about the project visit: https://www.port.ac.uk/business/accelerating-womens-enterprise