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Collaborate with us
We have been working for 100 years to ensure that young women’s rights are upheld and progressed in Scotland. Our staff team are strongly equipped with the tools, knowledge and expertise to co-design and co-produce impactful programmes, resources and campaigns with and for young women and girls.
We also offer a range of training workshops and programmes to organisations that seek to foster an inclusive environment for young women and girls. We take an evidence and participation-based approach with all of our campaigns, research and training, ensuring that we are working closely with young women to embed our intersectional feminist principles and values from the outset.
With a wealth of experience in carrying out impactful research, programmes and training workshops alongside peer researchers and advisory panels of young women, our staff are the perfect team to support this work.
“We are so grateful that we had the opportunity to work with The Young Women’s Movement over recent months. It has been a brilliant experience from start to finish, we have learnt a lot as an organisation but it has also been of great reassurance that we are on the right path in terms of our own approach and ethos. We have taken away so many great learnings from the training which I still hear our team talk about today and I am excited to continue to build upon what we already do at AgileCadence.”
– AgileCadence
Training
Whether you want to explore how to support young women in your workplace, understand more about the pressures facing them, boost their careers in your sector or work with young women to enact change, our training can help you find the way forward.
The Young Women’s Movement offer unparalleled expertise in the issues facing young women in Scotland. Our training is rooted in a century of knowledge and experience drawn from frontline projects, campaigns and research with young women across Scotland. We bring a unique perspective, constantly embedding new learning into our work supporting other organisations.
Delivered by experienced trainers, our training sessions can be delivered online or in person. The format and timeframe of these sessions can be adapted for your team’s needs.
Previous projects
Citizens Advice Scotland
We delivered three training sessions to Citizens Advice Scotland staff in 2025 to mark International Women’s Day.
The sessions explored the barriers faced by young women and girls in Scotland and how
Scottish Women’s Budget Group
We worked with the Scottish Women’s Budget Group in 2024 on a participatory research project exploring young women’s experiences of the cost-of-living crisis in Scotland.
Working closely with an advisory group of 10 young women and girls, we provided a series of workshops on conducting participatory research, survey design and data analysis to inform our research methodology and project outputs.
Scottish Women’s Aid
Following the identification of a service gap for young women (aged 12-25) in abusive relationships of their own, The Young Women’s Movement worked with Scottish Women’s Aid on a national research project throughout 2021 and 2022 to address this gap.
The project investigated young women’s experiences and understanding of unhealthy relationships, domestic abuse and access to support. Scottish Women’s Aid commissioned this work on behalf of the Women’s Aid network to inform accessible service development – so that Women’s Aid were better able to welcome all young women who require support. The Young Women’s Movement carried out this research with Young Women Rise, an advisory group consisting of 10 young women from across Scotland, some of whom had lived experiences of domestic abuse.
Young Women Code x CodeClan
As a unique offer for corporates we developed gender inclusive training workshops for tech organisations in Scotland between 2022 and 2023.
This training was initially developed to embed our Young Women Code recommendations for cultivating an inclusive workplace culture at CodeClan. This was done in collaboration with young women to ensure we embedded our intersectional feminist principles and values in the training from the outset.
Kairos Women+
In 2023 The Young Women’s Movement delivered a series of training workshops to community-led, Paisley women’s organisation Kairos Women+, looking at survey design, data analysis and running inclusive focus groups from an intersectional feminist perspective.
“We asked The Young Women’s Movement to deliver workshops for staff at Citizens Advice Scotland to mark International Women’s Day. From start to finish, they were brilliant to work with – so communicative in organising the sessions, offering both in-person in Edinburgh and Glasgow as well as online, and tailoring the content to our needs. The trainer delivered three fantastic workshops titled ‘Fighting Gender Inequality: An introduction to the barriers faced by young women and girls and how you can be part of the change’. The sessions were both informative and fun, and generated really interesting and valuable discussions. The feedback from staff was excellent and we’re keen to hold similar events in future to continue this important work.”
– Citizens Advice Scotland
Collaborative research
The Young Women’s Movement collaborates with universities and other partners to deliver high-quality research, all co-created with young women and girls.
Learn more, and get in touch if you’re interested in working together to research an issue affecting young women and girls.