Women’s Voices 2025

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Does your organisation support women and girls in the UK? Are you ready to take your charity’s work to the next level in 2025? 

We are excited to launch Women’s Voices 2025 – an event to bring together and support organisations advocating for gender equality. As UN Women highlight, the world is falling short of achieving gender equality by 2030. The erosion of women’s rights globally underscores the urgent need to raise women’s voices. Now, more than ever, it is crucial to support organisations like yours that champion women’s and girls’ rights.  

This year, we’re bringing together 15 organisations that support, campaign, and advocate for women and girls to collaborate with leading media and creative professionals from organisations such as the BBC, Dentsu, Google, and Meta.

If selected, you will prepare a brief outlining your 2025 campaign or communications goal and be matched with a dedicated team of skilled volunteers. During the event, you’ll work closely with your team to develop strategies and solutions that directly address your communications objectives, empowering you to amplify your mission in the year ahead. 

Who can apply? 

To be eligible to apply for Women’s Voices your organisation must meet the following criteria: 

• Support, campaign, or advocate for women and girls in the UK
• Have a clear live campaign or major communications goal that you are launching in 2025 aimed at the women and girls you support
• Can commit two members of staff to attend the event who will work on your campaign or goal 

Priority will be given to organisations that: 

• Are supporting women and girls from under-represented communities, including lesbian women, bisexual women, trans women, neurodiverse women, disabled women and Black, Asian and minority ethnic women
• Are small to medium-sized with a turnover of £5 million or less
• Haven’t participated in Women’s Voices before 

Ready to take part? 

Register your interest specifying your campaign or major comms goal for 2025 and how it will impact the women and girls you support. The deadline to apply is Monday 13 January at 9am. 

• Application deadline: Monday 13 January 2025
• Candidates notified: by Thursday 23 January 2025 

We will review your expression of interest carefully and be in touch to discuss next steps.  

Meet our keynote speaker

We are pleased to announced that Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin will be the keynote for Women’s Voices 2025!

Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin helps purpose-led solopreneurs and organisations build confidence, create trust and drive engagement and growth through strategic, human-centred brand communications.   

She is an award-winning social entrepreneur herself, founding the groundbreaking menstrual equity charity, Bloody Good Period in 2016, where she held the role of CEO before stepping down in 2022. Alongside BGP, she co-founded Bloody Good Employers, helping companies improve their communications, culture and policies around menstruation and menopause and which was named a Natwest Top 100 Social Enterprise and won the 2024 NatWest award for Equality among other accolades since.   

Gabby has been named a Top Changemaker by the Evening Standard, as one of The Progress 1000: London’s most influential people 2018; a Top 50 Trailblazers in Gender Equality 2021 by We Are The City and one of 100 trailblazers redefining the creative industry 2019 by The Dots.  

Most recently she was awarded the Newcastle University Award for Civic and Social Contribution. She is a trustee for Clore Social Leadership, and an Ambassador for Huckletree.  

Visit Gabby’s website here.

Our commitment to inclusion 

At Media Trust, we are dedicated to creating safe, supportive, and inclusive spaces for all participants, including women from marginalised and under-represented communities. Women’s Voices welcomes everyone, and we strive to ensure accessibility and inclusivity at all our events. 

The venue, Meta King’s Cross, is fully accessible and includes a prayer room.

If you have any questions or need assistance with your expression of interest, please contact the Volunteering Team at volunteering@mediatrust.org.

Thank you to our sponsor 

We are delighted that Meta is our event partner for Women’s Voices 2025 and will be hosting the event at their King’s Cross office.