Gloria was part of our North Manchester Time to Grow programme and progressed onto our ELLII programme in 2022. Gloria had already trained in a range of Holistic Therapies but wasn’t sure how best to use these in creating work for herself and others. Local to Clayton, she joined the Careers in Holistic Health programme we ran in partnership with our sister project Pop Up Spa and Retreat and she trained up in L2 and L3 Holistic and Natural Beauty Therapies, plus became a regular therapist at our monthly Pop Up Spas.
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Flourish supports women to create the change they see needed in communities. To date we have supported over 1000 women change makers and financially invested in over 100. The most recent programme Time To Grow supports women from all over Greater Manchester to help them with enterprising solutions to social issues and to create sustainable change
Women Changemaker Spotlight Series: Asma Begum & Sissy Rooney
Can you tell us about the project that you’re collaborating on together?
Sissy: I’m working with Soul Sisters’ regular Monday group to inspire their users to create a mixed media self-portrait using a vast array of art materials such as felt, beads, magazines, paint and watercolours. The ladies have been exploring different mediums and how to work with them, they have all included a power word or statement on their artwork that represents them – like ‘Strong Woman’ or ‘Freedom’.
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How did your first come into contact with Flourish?
I think I probably first heard about Flourish through Juanita at the Resonance Centre, but I didn’t pay much notice until my girlfriend’s friend Sammy mentioned it, and we thought we would all go along together. I was thinking about doing a personal training idea then and thought it would be good to understand how it might work to build a business.
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Flourish supports women to create the change they see needed in communities. To date we have supported over 1000 women changemakers and financially invested in over 100. The most recent Time To Grow programme supported women from all over Greater Manchester to help them with enterprising solutions to social issues and to create sustainable change. Our recent ELLII programme developed Enterprise, Learning, Leadership, Innovation and Influencing skills across the women’s support sector.
Coming Home
How did your first come into contact with Flourish?
It was through twitter initially, Nickala followed me when I was The Barker Baker – she has her finger on pulse of all things social enterprise so we started interacting.
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Women Arise CIC
How did your first come into contact with Flourish?
I think it was through an email that I came across Time to Grow, maybe from GMCVO.
How has Flourish helped you?
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How did your first come into contact with Flourish?
I can’t remember how! I think it might have been a lady who came to talk to us in Rochdale about developing a business, I think I registered my details and they offered to pass them on.
How has Flourish helped you?
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