Training from The Young Women’s Movement
Training from The Young Women’s Movement
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.
Charities, public sector organisations and businesses are facing unprecedented challenges. Technology is advancing at pace, while marginalised groups are still facing decades-old stereotypes and barriers to equality. Sometimes it can feel like we’re living in the past and the future at the same time.
Leading change in culture, policy and attitudes can feel like an impossible task – but that’s what we do. Our work across Scotland has shown us that with the right training and resources, anyone can become an effective advocate.
We all need to step up for young women in Scotland so they feel equally valued in our society, otherwise we will lose not only half the talent pool; we will lose future leaders, entrepreneurs, changemakers and thinkers who will define Scotland’s future.
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.
We offer a flexible and adaptable approach. You can book our ready-to-go evidence-based training courses, and you can also talk to us about developing bespoke support around your specific needs and circumstances.
Training services
Our training draws on research, projects and policy development work carried out with young women and girls across Scotland. Over the past ten years we have worked on areas as diverse as access to healthcare, workplace equality, feminist town planning and the impact of AI on gender equality. Our training brings the key messages and learning directly from young women to your organisation or group. We combine research, experiential learning, young women’s experiences and practical action-planning to create sessions that leave you feeling informed, challenged and equipped to make changes.
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.
Ready-to-go training
AI and Gender
(half-day course)
Ever feel like you both understand and don’t understand AI at the same time?
This course consolidates the learning from our work on the impact of AI on gender equality into a half-day training that equips you to identify, understand and challenge gender bias in AI. The course unpacks how we got here and ensures you understand the most pressing issues for young women around AI.
Movement Building and Mentoring
(full day or two half-day courses)
Collective action, mentoring and feminist joy are at the core of The Young Women’s Movement. This course takes learning from our decades of experience in campaigning, mentoring and bringing young women together. The course focuses on movement building that is deliberately feminist. We invite you to share our knowledge with your community and potentially start your own campaign.
Gender Equity
(two half-day courses)
In the workplace:
Workplace equality and equity have come a long way over the past 50 years, so it can be even harder to spot the barriers facing young women today.
Building on our Young Women Work campaign, this course creates space to explore the challenges and structural barriers facing young women in the workplace in depth, which are often invisible to others around them. Taking an intersectional perspective, the course spotlights key recommendations made by young women that support the whole workforce.
In accessing healthcare:
Women are higher net users of healthcare services than men, so systems and processes must be set up to meet their needs – right? According to our research, young women and girls don’t agree.
Drawing on our Status of Young Women in Scotland reports, this course unpicks the obstacles young women and girls face in trying to access healthcare across Scotland. The course considers what needs to be in place for young women to access essential services. It takes a practical approach to exploring the needs of young women and how you can make a difference.
Bespoke training
As well as our ‘ready-to-go’ training, we also have extensive experience in both training development and delivery on a wide range of topics. We can work with you to develop and deliver bespoke sessions that meet the specific needs of your group or organisation.
Some examples of bespoke training we have developed and delivered include:
- Introduction to gender inequality and bias
- Introduction to intersectionality
- Lived experience and participation
- Introduction to participatory research
- Building culture change
- Mentoring and informal mentoring skills
- Skills to reduce inequalities
- Unconscious bias
- Flexible working
- Inclusive recruitment
- Inclusive language
We are always interested in exploring and developing new training sessions, and we’d love to hear your ideas about what would suit your team.
“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
Pricing
Our pricing reflects our expertise and knowledge developed over time. We operate a sliding scale of pricing to ensure that our training is accessible to smaller and grassroots organisations and individuals.
Premium rates subsidise our work with smaller groups/organisations and individuals.
Standard rates
Online training
| Ready-to-go half-day | £600 |
| Ready-to-go full day | £800 |
| Bespoke half-day | £1,200 |
| Bespoke full day | £1,500 |
In person training
| Ready-to-go half-day | £900 |
| Ready-to-go full day | £1,200 |
| Bespoke half-day | £1,600 |
| Bespoke full day | £2,000 |
Sliding scale framework
| Tier 1 Grassroots/micro-organisations (<£50k turnover) Self-funding young people | 60% discount from standard rates Payment plans available |
| Tier 2 Small charities (£50–300k turnover) Self-funding voluntary sector workers | 40% discount from standard rates Payment plans available |
| Tier 3 Medium charities (£300k– 1.5m turnover) Large charities (>£1.5M turnover) Small-to-medium public sector organisations Small businesses | Standard rates |
| Tier 4 Larger private sector and public bodies | Standard rates + 20% premium |
Want to talk to us about training?
We’d love to hear from you. Contact us via the form below, or alternatively get in touch at hello@youngwomenscot.org, or call our Partnerships and Events Lead, Elena Soper, on 07507 768694.