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Owning My Life & Empowering Women in the Workplace
Hi, I’m Emma, and I want to share something really important with you! I’ve recently stepped into the role of Business Development...
Feb 24, 20254 min read


February 2025 Facilitator Training
All of our training participants, look at all our delightful faces 🥰 We've just completed February's Own My Life facilitator ...
Feb 11, 20252 min read


Piloting Own My Life with women with learning disabilities and/or Autism
Central Advocacy Partners (CAP) is a Scottish charity providing free relationship based independent advocacy for people with learning...
Jan 20, 20257 min read


January 2025 Facilitator Training
Screenshot of training participants Last week, we had a wonderful facilitator training event to usher in the new year. Some of the things...
Jan 13, 20252 min read


Own My Life Employability: Final Evaluation
Click here to go straight to our Employability Evaluation Report. In 2023, through the Community Foundation, we secured £10,000 funding...
Jan 3, 20252 min read


Holding onto Hope and recording an audio book
Just before Christmas, our CEO Natalie was down in Hampshire recording an audio version of her first book, Out Of Control; Couples,...
Jan 2, 20254 min read


Visiting Adapt Kerry
Natalie with Catherine Casey (Adapt Kerry manager) and Catherine Gayson (Adapt Kerry Senior Support) The only thing more joyful than one...
Dec 12, 20243 min read


November 2024 - Final Network Meeting
We had our final Own My Life facilitator networking meeting & managed to share so many ideas and tips. From how to break up...
Dec 3, 20241 min read


PIVOT Leadership Podcast
This week, our CEO Natalie is on the PIVOT Leadership Podcast with leadership coach Emma Chandler. Talking through how organsiations can...
Nov 27, 20241 min read


What story are we telling about women?
On 25th November, many who work to address men's violence towards women will be marking this as the International Day for the Elimination...
Nov 25, 20241 min read


November 2024 Facilitator Training
It was our final facilitator training for 2024 this week, and what a magnificent week it was. We even had a participant all the way from...
Nov 8, 20242 min read


BBC Jersey Radio
Our CEO Natalie Collins was on Jersey radio last week, speaking about abuse after Anna Kendrik disclosed that her previous partner was...
Nov 7, 20241 min read


Our New Office!
We are delighted to have moved into a new office! It may just look like a bare space with a few cardboard boxes, but those boxes hold Own...
Oct 22, 20241 min read


October 2024 Own My Life Training
It was another glorious Own My Life facilitator training last week. There was lots of wonderful feedback from participants, here is what...
Oct 21, 20242 min read


When even your toes are filled with gratitude! 100 years of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust
This week our CEO, Natalie, had the joy of joining the Sir Halley Stewart Trust, in London, to celebrate their 100th birthday.
Oct 11, 20244 min read


BBC Politics North
Our CEO, Natalie Collins, was on BBC Politics North's programme on 29th September, as part of a discussion about the two-child benefit...
Oct 7, 20241 min read


Connect Centre Conference - Cumbria
In the first week of October, our CEO Natalie Collins was part of the University of Central Lancaster's (UClan) Connect Centre conference....
Oct 5, 20245 min read


Our Annual Report (2023/24)
We are delighted to announce that our Annual Report for April 2023 - March 2024 is now available! Alongside sharing all the work we have...
Oct 5, 20241 min read


Own My Life weekend away and AGM
It was our charity's biennual weekend away on 20th - 22nd September . As a charity working across the UK and Ireland, all our Trustee...
Oct 4, 20242 min read


September 2024 Own My Life Training
Last week we had another wonderful facilitator training. With participants from across all four UK nations and Ireland, it was a...
Oct 1, 20241 min read
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