March 2020

The 8th March isn’t just International Women’s Day - It just so happens to be our birthday too - YaY- We celebrated our first birthday by hosting a conference - The Menopause and Me

And what an amazing day it was too, with over 50 delegates all wanting to know more from our professionals and experts in their fields. Everyone left full of a sense of hope, greater knowledge and better equipped to move forward. The feedback was incredible too, with many asking us to most certainly run this event again.

Our enormous thanks goes to Susanna Unsworth - Donna Boggis - Emily Barclay + Nikki Sherman for provided everyone with so much amazing advice and support in their workshops. The amazingly generous local business women Sheri- Natalie - Liz - Candi - Denise + Laura for donating raffle prizes. Keith Robinson (Suffolk County Councillor) for providing the funds to hire the venue and costs toward printing. Bev Shipp from ASDA Lowestoft for agreeing to support us with everything from teabags to 2 fruit hampers for the raffle. Kareena - (Kirkley Centre manager) for allowing us to have the entire building for the day at an extremely reasonable cost. And the amazing team of women I am blessed to have the support of :- Donna - Lesley - Bev - Jasmine + Maxine (most people didn’t see them as they were buzzing around in the back ground either creating the delicious buffet or moving chairs around when needed and refilling water jugs) I couldn’t have done it without them all x

So now the work really starts - our aim is to form a collective of experts and professionals, to design a package we take to women. Get local businesses signed up to receive training - adopting policies for their businesses. Work with other groups such as #Pausitivity & # 50 Sense, to get more information into Drs surgeries and campaign to ensure more health professionals can receive training to enable them to help women seeking help!

If you want to help them please print off your poster and get it up in your GP surgery - Your staff room - ANYWHERE you think other women may see it http://pausitivity.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR3d978wgwYzHzapfa0COmydojHN5tth59msriXDv9A1dBldV5CR4yCL61Y

January 2020

We are really pleased to announce funding has been secured to enable us to continue the amazing work we have achieved to date. The funding - From Suffolk Community Foundation - will help to keep our Garden Angel teams and Allotments running and for us to engage with new members over the next 12 months. So if you fancy doing something completely new AND have a giggle whilst helping others then just have a look at the compilation below to see what you could be part of. No gardening experience needed either, just a willingness to get stuck in.

https://www.suffolkcf.org.uk/women-and-girls-projects-in-suffolk-receive-major-funding-boost/?fbclid=IwAR1IGB1eUZAakOkOe8aXgKNbpRxNdrObejiLDvYqHmIwh3XAPqb2UvSB30U

December 2019

4th September 2019

We are extremely excited to announce that we have just taken possession of our 3rd allotment. This one is on Church Road (opposite Wash Lane) in Kessingland - a village in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk. It is located around 4 miles south of Lowestoft with a population of approx. 4,000 people -

Whilst she is our smallest allotment to date, she will certainly be one of our most challenging -But you must know by now that we do LOVE a challenge -

With a medley of stir crazy bramble bushes and an overgrown buddleia to mention just 2 of the challenges we face, she is triangular in shape and situated at the top far righthand corner of the land. We had a site visit recently and took a few pics - GULP!! So pop over to our projects page to take a look for yourselves.

We can’t wait to get started so if you live in the area and would like to help create a new Place To Be for the Women of Kessingland then drop us a line

Special thanks to Billy Nicholls of Kessingland Parish Council for supporting us to get this far - We look forward to showing you and the Council what we can do :-)

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1st August 2019 - Our remit of cover is Suffolk & Norfolk and so far we’ve been successful in setting up GA teams in Lowestoft & Beccles BUT!!! we are always happy to talk to you about setting up a team in your area. So if you think you’d like to become part of a new GA team then please do get in touch and we’ll get the ball rolling - EXCITING TIMES!!!!

We’ve also decided to create a new arm to our Garden Angel project, it’s something we think will appeal to women who have previously not been able to commit to offering their time on a weekly basis but would really like to be a GA - who wouldn’t ! We’re doing it now because we have been receiving a few requests from schools and care homes, asking if we can turn their open spaces into a place people want to be. But we’ve been pushed to our limits with these jobs because they’re not as simple as gardens.

SOOOOOooooooooooooo by increasing the number of women on our books that we can call upon when needed to do a few hours we should be able to help more people And that can only to be a good thing - YaY.

If you’d like to sign up then please drop us an e-mail to info@women-like-me.co.uk OR send a message via our Facebook page (the link’s in our contact section)

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1st May 2019 TESCO BAGs FOR LIFE funding

We are SSSSSSSSSSSSOoooooooooo grateful to EVERYONE who believed enough in us and popped their tokens into our slot -   There are 3 prizes available, up to £1,000, £2,000 and £4,000 and as one of the other groups requests was for another defibulator for Beccles, we very much doubt we’ll come first

BUT! where ever we come we WILL be able to plant our second SHE SHED - And that’s REALLY exciting!!!
Apparently we won’t know until June (ish) where we came but as soon as we find out we’ll let you all know

Thank you ALL again for all your support, It’s been great to see how many of you also believe Women Like Me IS GREAT x

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October 2018

Awards for All - National Lottery Funding

We are extremely pleased to announce we have recently secured National Lottery Awards for All funding to help build new and worthwhile experiences /groups/networks for Women to create and participate in, these activities will focus on increasing their positive well-being and help grow their feelings of self-worth that will enable them to enjoy a sense of increased empowerment.

Starting in the New Year, we shall be running a variety of one off workshops - from Mindfulness to Basic Car Maintenance. Setting up the first She Shed project on our allotment in Lowestoft - with every intention and desire to have a network of our sheds across Suffolk & Norfolk and increasing participation on the fantastically successful Garden Angel project we set up earlier in the year.

We will create a safe + friendly environment to help all Women Like Me members feel better equipped and supported to live full and enriched lives and to help them gain and increase a greater self of Positive Well-Being. We will work on positive outcomes - we will celebrate all successes and failures because TOGETHER we will Learn Laugh and Grow.

To find out more please visit our Website and Facebook page. And if you either have an idea for a workshop other women might like OR would like to deliver a workshop for us please get in touch.