Helping organisations create better opportunities for women
Every organisation is different, and so are the women they support.
Whether you're developing a new project, strengthening an existing service, or exploring a new area of work, WEI brings together direct delivery, lived experience, practical learning, and innovation to help create opportunities that women genuinely engage with.
We work alongside organisations across justice and community settings, tailoring our support to your goals, your setting, and the women you work with.
When organisations work with WEI
Organisations typically come to us when they want to:
Develop a new project or programme for women
Whether you've secured funding or identified a need, we can help design, deliver, and evaluate new initiatives.
Test a new idea before investing further
We design and deliver pilot projects that generate learning, identify what works, and provide practical recommendations for future development.
Better understand the women they support
We use lived experience engagement, consultation, and co-design to ensure women's voices inform services, projects, and decision-making.
Strengthen opportunities and pathways for women
We help organisations review existing provision, identify gaps, and develop approaches that better reflect women's needs and aspirations.
Our core services
Understanding women's experiences
The best services are shaped by the people they are designed for.
We help organisations engage women in meaningful ways through:
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Lived experience groups
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Focus groups
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Consultation
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Co-design workshops
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Advisory groups
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Stakeholder engagement
The insight gathered helps organisations better understand women's experiences and shape future services, projects, and strategy.
Creating opportunities for women
We design and deliver practical programmes and workshops that help women build confidence, recognise their strengths, explore opportunities, and take positive steps forward.
Every programme is designed around the women involved and can be delivered as one-off workshops, short programmes, or longer-term projects.
Our specialist expertise includes supporting women to explore self-employment as one of a range of opportunities available to them.
Strengthening pathways and provision
Sometimes organisations know there is a gap but aren't sure how to address it.
WEI works collaboratively to strengthen opportunities and pathways for women.
Support may include:
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Service reviews
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Pathway mapping
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Programme development
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Learning reviews
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Practice recommendations
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Self-employment pathway development
Everything we do is grounded in women's experiences, practical delivery, and learning.
Testing new
approaches
Innovation is most effective when it is tested before it is scaled.
WEI works alongside organisations to design, deliver, and evaluate pilot projects.
This might include:
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Testing a new model of support
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Exploring an unmet need
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Developing a new pathway
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Trialling a new intervention
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Delivering funded pilot projects
Alongside delivery, we capture learning and provide practical recommendations to support future development.
Why organisations choose WEI
Direct delivery with women
Lived experience engagement
Coaching and strengths-based practice
Practical learning and evaluation
Pilot project design and delivery
Systems thinking and pathway development
WEI bridges the gap between strategy and delivery.
We don't simply recommend change.
We work directly alongside women, test ideas in practice, capture learning, and help organisations develop opportunities that are informed by what women tell us and what works in real-world settings.
Our work combines:
