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Partner Spotlight: Voices of RISE — Video Podcast Series

12

Jan

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Partner Spotlight: Voices of RISE — Video Podcast Series

Sponsored by Applehead Media We are delighted to welcome Applehead Media as the official sponsor of Voices of RISE, a live, broadcast-quality video podcast series recorded at RISE 2026. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOtlYCMGY5k Hosted by Nicola Sands, co-founder of Applehead Media and winner of the She Inspires Person with a Mission Award 2025, Voices of RISE is a powerful example of purpose-led partnership and giving back to the community that helped shape her journey. With a background in journalism and broadcasting, Nicola brings years of experience in professional storytelling, media production, and on-camera confidence. Through Applehead Media, she has built a reputation for working predominantly with senior leaders, executives,…

From Recognition to Impact — How Louise Prashad’s Story Became a Legacy

12

Jan

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From Recognition to Impact — How Louise Prashad’s Story Became a Legacy

Some stories do more than inspire admiration.They change the way we see the world — and our responsibility to one another. This is one of those stories. Louise Prashad is alive today because of organ donation. She is also living proof of what happens when recognition meets purpose — when a woman’s story is not only heard, but honoured, amplified, and allowed to grow into something bigger than the moment it began. Louise’s journey started in circumstances few could imagine. During late pregnancy with twins, she became critically ill. Acute liver failure took hold with frightening speed, leaving doctors with no…

Founder’s Reflection | Stories That Change Us

06

Jan

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Founder’s Reflection | Stories That Change Us

I have always been drawn to stories — not just films or series, but storytelling in its fullest sense. The kind that pulls you in quietly, the way a good book does, and stays with you long after the cover is closed or the screen fades to black. I watch widely, across genres and cultures, but what fascinates me most is not only what we see — it’s how every story begins. Every film starts with the smallest spark.One idea. One question. One moment of truth that refuses to let go. From that spark, a world is built. Characters are…

Taste of Bolton: A Festive Gathering That Turned Food into Connection

20

Dec

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Taste of Bolton: A Festive Gathering That Turned Food into Connection

On 17 December, Taste of Bolton hosted a festive community Christmas get-together at Slater Field Community Centre — and in doing so, reminded everyone present that food is never just about eating. It is about gathering. It is about being seen. It is about creating spaces where people feel they belong. At its heart, Taste of Bolton is rooted in a simple but powerful idea: when people come together around food, barriers soften. Conversations begin. Isolation loosens its grip. On the day, this philosophy was visible everywhere — in the ease with which strangers became companions, in the joy on…

Founder’s Journal | December: The Descent

20

Dec

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Founder’s Journal | December: The Descent

December, for me, is always the descent. If November is the climb — steep, relentless, exhilarating — then December is the careful walk back down the mountain. The view changes. The air softens. The noise fades. And for the first time in months, the pressure lifts. After our global celebration of women in November — the gala, the stories, the energy, the emotion — the first week of December felt… strange. The only way I can describe it is this: I felt like a deflated balloon. Not in a sad way. Just suddenly light. Empty of urgency. There were no…

Bollywood Bliss: Where Art Heals, Memory Connects, and Community Breathes Again

11

Dec

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Bollywood Bliss: Where Art Heals, Memory Connects, and Community Breathes Again

There are moments in a community’s journey when something begins to glow quietly beneath the surface — the sense that people deserve more joy, more belonging, more spaces where their hearts can rest without explanation. Bollywood Bliss, our newly funded initiative supported by the National Lottery Community Fund, is one of those moments. It feels less like a launch and more like a natural continuation of everything we have been building for years through Bollywood Chai Cafés and Bollywood Revisited, where colour, culture, music, and conversation created small pockets of healing for people who needed it most. Now, this work evolves into an 18-month Festival of…

50,000 Futures, One Unbreakable Promise — Empowering Girls Locally and Globally

10

Dec

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50,000 Futures, One Unbreakable Promise — Empowering Girls Locally and Globally

Empower 50,000 Girls (Empower 50K) is the boldest promise of the She Inspires Group as it steps into its second decade — a promise born from lived experience, shaped by courage, and fuelled by the belief that every girl deserves to step into the world well-armed with knowledge, confidence, and hope. For years, through the She Inspires Awards and countless conversations with women across sectors and continents, one truth continued to surface: so many of the wounds women carry began long before they became women. They began in childhood, in silence, in the absence of language for boundaries, for money,…

How Empower 50K Becomes Reality: The Champions Who Stepped Forward

10

Dec

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How Empower 50K Becomes Reality: The Champions Who Stepped Forward

Big promises mean little without a path. When we pledged to empower 50,000 girls, we knew a vision that large needed structure, clarity, and a roadmap that honoured both ambition and realism. Numbers can inspire, but unless they can be broken down into steps we can walk together, they remain distant dreams. So after months of thought, vision boarding, and quiet strategic work, the solution emerged with beautiful simplicity: 100 schools. A hundred learning spaces where girls gather, grow, question, dream.A hundred communities where knowledge can ripple outward.A hundred seeds that, once planted, could grow far beyond their walls. Some schools…

What Happens Next: Building Empower 50K on the Ground

10

Dec

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What Happens Next: Building Empower 50K on the Ground

Once the first five champions stepped forward, the next question was simple: Where do we begin? A pledge only becomes real when it meets real people, in real places, with real needs. And for Empower 50K, that meant going back to the roots — to communities where support is most needed, where knowledge can be life-changing, and where girls often grow up carrying silence instead of understanding. So Gulnaz travelled to India, determined not to delegate this stage to a distant organisation. Many suggested partnering with a large charity and “letting them handle it.” But that was never the point. The…

From Vision to Villages: The Journey to Our First Five Schools

10

Dec

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From Vision to Villages: The Journey to Our First Five Schools

Team ready. Strategy ready. Schools identified, permissions granted, logistics mapped. And then came the moment when the mission left the whiteboard and stepped into the world.The months were July and August — sweltering heat, rising humidity, monsoon clouds gathering above us. But this was the beginning we had dreamed of. Our first five schools. Our first steps into the villages where Empower 50K would take root. School One opened its doors with warmth and promise. A newly built government-funded campus, classrooms with desks and chairs, bright spaces filled with girls whose eyes shone with possibility. They spoke about their futures with…