Women and Work
Women & Work was a government-funded scheme aimed at women employed in the fashion and textiles industry. The programme gave women the opportunity to improve on their existing skills or gain new ones, so they could progress in their career and achieve more for themselves and their employers.
Click on the boxes below to find out more about what the programme offered women in the workplace and the successes it enjoyed.
What was the Women & Work programme?
Find out more about how the scheme helped women in the workplace improve their career prospects through training.
Read MoreWomen in Work: what did we achieve?
The Women & Work programme saw four year of providing essential financial contributions to the training of female employees in the fashion and textiles, and more latterly, film industries.
Read MoreGeorge Case Study
The Women & Work programme gave George staff the opportunity to develop their skills in fashion and textiles. Read on to hear their story.
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