Information session for Business Growth Programme
Business Growth - a 9 month business growth and sustainability course for women who run a small business
Date and time
Location
Online
About this event
- Event lasts 1 hour
****This is an information session for the Business Growth Programme. This is a chance to meet the trainers and to see what the course is about. It is recommeded that you attend one of the information sessions.****
The Growing Club is a Social Enterprise based in Lancaster, Lancashire providing female focussed business training and support.
Business Growth is a 9 month programme for women who run a small businesses, social enterprise, or charity, and have been doing so for between 3 and 6 years.
Business Growth, began in 2016 because the co-founder of The Growing Club, Jane Binnion, identified there was little to no support for women running micro-businesses. Time and time again she saw women struggling to grow their organisation, or bring in enough income, despite working 50 to 60 hours a week.
She realised traditional business training was not suited to the specific challenges and strengths of most women.
Since 2016 more than 180 women have participated and grown their businesses.
Our growth programme is a systematic business growth course tailored specifically for the needs of women running micro-businesses. Instead of short term, intensive training or coaching, this course offers long term, peer-based support over a period of 9 months, through both facilitated business skills workshops, a buddy system and peer-network structure.
The Business Growth programme is a 9 month commitment and offers you the following:
- Monthly facilitated skills workshop, each month building on the previous to take you through a year of sustainable business growth.
- A safe space to grow your business, working with a cohort of no more than 10 other women just like you.
- Peer accountability through a monthly 'buddy session' with another participant.
- A safe space to evaluate and reflect on your progress.
- To be part of a growing support network of women who have completed The Growing Club's courses.
The course is designed for women who...
- want to lift their heads from the day to day minutiae, to see the bigger picture;
- can appreciate working in a female supportive space;
- cannot afford a coach, but want to grow their business;
- have not found a coach that works holistically with them;
- want an accountability partner and peer support;
- value other people's experiences.
Course dates...
The course is a 9 month commitment which requires you to attend monthly skills workshops and a monthly buddy session.
*This cohort will run on the 1st Wednesday of each month, starting 1st October 2025
*6.30pm to 9pm, in Lancaster
Dates
1st October
5th November
3rd December
7th January
4th February
4th March
1st April
6th May
3rd June (Graduation)
If you would like to apply for this course, please fill in your details and we will send you a zoom link to attend this information session. Following this we will send you an application form and call you to make sure this is the right programme for you.