Everywoman.co.uk
Everywoman.co.uk provides products and
services to assist women to start and run their businesses.
The website is a comprehensive on-line resources giving women
business owners access to free information and advice}
The Fawcett Society
The UK's leading
organisation campaigning for equality between women and men.
Its vision is of a society in which women and men are equal
partners in the home, at work and in public life. Fawcett is
a membership organisation offering supporters the opportunity to
take practical action to make a difference to women's lives.
National Council of Women (NCW)
Founded in
1895 to provide a forum for women workers. Its agenda
includes social inclusion, quality of life, sustainable
development, trafficking in women, consumer rights, employment,
equality, pensions, women's health issues, violence against women
and children and the welfare of the family
Prowess
Trade association for organisations
committee to providing women-friendly business support. The
website has map-based links to locally based women-friendly
business support providers across the UK and also inspirational
stories of ordinary women who have started their own businesses.
Rights of Women
Works to attain justice and
equality by informing, educating and empowering women on their
legal rights. Advice line gives free legal advice for and by
women and provides downloadable information sheets and training for
organisations on women's rights.
Dress for Success London
An international
charity in London providing interview-appropriate clothing to
low-income women, making tailored transitions into the
workforce. Clients must be referred through member
organisations, details available from Dress for Success.
National Women's Register (NWR)
A countrywide network of informal
groups that meet in each others homes where lively-minded members
exchange ideas, enjoy
challenging discussions and share social events such as conferences
and workshops.
City Women's Network
A network for senior
executive women in and around London. Members are
professional women and business owners. Frequent meetings and
workshops are held.
Opportunity Now
Opportunity
Now works with employers to realise the potential and business
benefits that women at every level contribute to the
workforce. It now has 360 participating employer members
drawn from a wide range of organisations in the public, private and
education sectors.
Women's Business Web
Dedicated to putting women consumers in touch with women
businesses. They provide women with information about business and services and help generate new
opportunities in the rapidly growing female economy.
Swiftwork
Specialises in flexible working and
work-life balance, helping organizations to capitalise on the
challenges of new ways of working in the 21st century.
Swiftwork provides a free membership forum for work returners,
homeworkers and all people who are working, or want to work,
flexibly.
Jobshare project
The Job Share Project is a group of business
leaders and talent practitioners with an interest in in exploring the
feasibility of job sharing as a commercially viable solution to enable
part-time working in business-critical roles in global fast paced
organisations.
Capability Jane
Capability Jane runs the largest network of mid to senior female returning professionals in London and South East of England.
The 30% Club
Working to bring about a real
transformation by motivating and supporting chairmen to appoint
more women to their boards, providing information and support for
businesses trying to improve their diversity and for women seeking
board appointments, working with related groups and raising the profile of the issue by
stimulating and influencing the political agenda.
Parenting for Professionals
Offers employers maternity coaching programmes, as well as coaching
and support for parents at work. They support companies to attract and retain women, and
help parents gain a happy and productive work-life balance.
• An Inspirational Journey
Seeks to increase the participation of women at the top of the
corporate hierarchy.
• Obelisk Legal Support
Obelisk Legal Support
provides high quality support for in-house legal teams and law
firms. Their mission is to get top ex-city lawyer parents working
around their family commitments based on the time they can spare.
• Womankind Worldwide
An international
women's human rights charity working to help women transform their
lives in Africa, Asia and Latin America.