Work with us
Work with us
The Young Women’s Movement are experts in conducting participatory research designs, methods and frameworks, and carrying out community consultations with young women and girls.
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.”
– Young Women Code Partner
Ask the experts!
Do you still have difficulty attracting, retaining or progressing young women in your organisation, despite your efforts to develop better EDI practices?
The Young Women’s Movement offer unparalleled expertise in the issues facing young women in Scotland. We know it’s not always easy, so we’ve developed innovative participatory research and dynamic training to identify the barriers facing young women and provide your team with the tools to remove them.
We would love to hear from you if you would like to work with us on:
- Developing participatory research projects;
- Commissioning an organisational gender audit;
- Commissioning expert training sessions for staff teams and participants;
- Co-designing and co-producing innovative research, programmes and campaigns with young women;
- Supporting the meaningful participation of young women e.g. lived experience panels; advisory boards; participation processes & policies
- Consultation workshops with young women and girls on a specific issue or topic;
- Public speaking and communications engagements e.g. keynote speeches / blog pieces / podcast episodes
- Consultancy support on inclusive policies for young women, e.g. how to effectively implement a 4-day week; fertility policies etc.
This list is by no means exhaustive, we are always happy to work on your bespoke needs. Please get in touch with us to discuss how we can support you.
Current and past projects
Scottish Women’s Budget Group
We are currently working with the Scottish Women’s Budget Group 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 are providing a series of workshops on conducting participatory research, survey design and data analysis to inform our research methodology and project outputs. This project runs from January 2024 to September 2024.
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 alongside 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.
“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 tThe YWM facilitators have been extremely accommodating to our community’s needs. […] . Above all, the quality of the content selected for each session has been excellent and critical to the development of our projects. […] The YWM’s delivery strategy has allowed everyone who attends their sessions to participate. The content has proven to be inclusive, diverse, and critical, but most importantly, it has been delivered in a kind and clear manner, which aligns with our values and ethos. Finally, one of the reasons Kairos Women+ has returned to YWM for the delivery of these types of sessions is that the attendees have been blown away by the facilitators’ ability to convey such important information with such a fun and engaging manner. It has left us wanting to learn more and discuss the issues raised during the sessions.he 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.”
– Kairos Women+
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.