mentoring young women Archives

Dela shares her story

January 18, 2023

Dela – who has just completed our last Catalyst Programme – tells us a bit about herself and her experiences on it. What would your dream job be? When it comes to working in the sustainability sector, I would love to run my own charity that focuses on raising awareness around period poverty among houseless and low-income women. This ambition is inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which encourage me to look at sustainability from a human-centred approach.…

Catalyst Voices: My first green job

May 12, 2021

Traci Lewis

Emily is from Sheffield and works as an Admin & Communications Coordinator for the Sheffield Climate Alliance. She is also volunteering for us at Catalyse Change, helping us with our digital communications and social media. Here she tells us about her journey to getting her first green job. Tell us a bit about your educational background. I’ve always been more interested in humanities subjects, rather than science-related subjects that might lead more naturally into a climate career, and before I…

Catalyst Summit will empower future female sustainability leaders

June 14, 2020

Traci Lewis

The Catalyst Summit is for girls & young women who want to save the world. Feeling worried about your future and the future of the world? You want to make a difference but are not sure how to go about it? The Catalyst Summit is a new online 3-day event that will empower young women to build a sustainable future. This new summit replaces the summer Catalyst Bootcamp that was due to take place in Bristol, as a face-to-face event.…

5 Reasons You Should Come To The Catalyst Summit

June 6, 2020

Traci Lewis

During 3 days in July lots of brilliant women will gather online at the Catalyst Summit to explore some of the biggest questions currently facing us. what if the world really were gender equal and fair for everyone? what if the world was powered just by renewable energy – with clear skies & clean air all of the time? what if I had the confidence and skills to help make that change? Catalyst Bootcamp cancelled With our summer Catalyst Bootcamp…

Would you like to Mentor a Young Woman?

May 1, 2020

Traci Lewis

Are you a woman working for social or environmental change who would like to help inspire the next generation of change makers? The Catalyse Change 2020.21 Mentoring programme is now open if you would like to mentor a young woman? The world is facing serious environmental and social problems, and now more than ever we are on the cusp of great change. Fridays for the Future have seen more than 13 million people taking to the streets across the globe…

Why I mentor young women

April 18, 2020

Traci Lewis

Lucy, one of our Catalyse Change mentors, tells us all about her own varied sustainability career journey and why she has decided to now also mentor young women. Name: Lucy Gatward Current occupation: Freelance communications specialist on various sustainability projects. Current projects: Going for Gold Bristol – Food Sector Lead; City to Sea: managing Food Sector project. My sustainability career journey I can probably point to the start of my sustainability career in two parts. The first is accidental, the…