Startup, working with prisons, probation, employment agencies, housing specialists, counsellors and women’s centres will organise Startupnow Days. These will offer a wide range of services designed to get women back on track and taking responsibility for their own lives.

Startupnow Days will:

• Run in women’s prisons as well as from St Ethelburga’s, Bishopsgate, London and in women’s centres predominantly in the South East.
• Offer a wide range of taster sessions aimed at improving self-esteem, education and personal development.
• Work with partners in the statutory and voluntary sectors to deliver a top quality service to allow women to focus on themselves and their future.
• Facilitate links with mainstream agencies especially in the areas of finance and debt.
• Invite women already running successful Startup supported businesses to act as positive role models and become peer mentors to our candidates.
• Offer business advisers to give support in book keeping, banking and preparing a viable business plan.
• Provide transport and crèche facilities.

Suitable candidates will go on to receive a grant of up to £2,500 for tools and equipment to start up their own business, a personal mentor and access to our database of business information.

Our partner services available at Startupnow Days

Bluespot Networks, CAST, Clean Break, Dress for Success, Inbiz, LYST St Anselm Centre, Personal Fitness, Proactive Services, Ronesan’s Hairdressing, S.H.E., St Giles Trust, Turning Point, Unlock, Women in Prison.