Rosa Summer Conference 2025
The Rosa Summer Conference on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 June will be an opportunity to get inspired, connect with peers and strengthen the women and girls sector.
We will be celebrating the incredible work of women-led organisations working to make the UK a fairer, safer place for women and girls. Our packed agenda across two days will bring inspiration from across the sector, along with opportunities to build new connections with potential funders, and practical training that can be put straight to work.
Some of our feedback from Rosa’s Summer Conference 2024
“Full of inspiration and great learning. The most useful governance training I’ve been a part of! I took a lot from it that I can see being able to implement in various organisations that I’m involved in.“
“I found it inspiring, stimulating and very reassuring – hearing all the different stories was great and a good leveller to all the division there is sometimes.“
“It was incredibly inspiring, useful and ran like clockwork, no mean feat online! Thank you for all you do at Rosa, this is such important work and so great to see how continually impressive you are at it!“
This year’s agenda includes:
Women’s and girls’ organisations creating change: our opening panel will explore the changemaking ecosystem of the women and girls sector.
Voices from the sector: hear from women with impact and inspiration to share.
Meet the funders: hear from grantmakers who fund women’s and girls’ organisations about their fundraising priorities and plans, and join Q&A sessions with individual funders.
Networking: join live networking sessions, and connect with peers via the Zoom events networking features.
Training: our training day on 18 June will offer a full day of free, bitesize training sessions on key challenge topics such as governance and income generation. Full programme tbc
This free event is for anyone who works in, supports or is interested in the women’s and girls’ sector.
It will be hosted using the Zoom events platform: we recommend registering using your Zoom account if you have one as this will give you access to extra networking features during the event.
If you have any questions about the event reach out to us at info@rosauk.org.
Catch up on the sessions from last year
Watch the recordings below and click the right arrow to see the next session.
Welcome and opening keynote with Esua Goldsmith
British-Ghanaian feminist author, activist, campaigner, speaker, and facilitator Esua Goldsmith to opened the Rosa Summer Conference 2024 with a keynote speech entitled ‘Inspiring intergenerational insights across the women and girls sector.
Facilitator: Rebecca Gill, Rosa.
Voices From The Sector
The second second plenary session from the Rosa Summer Conference 2024 turned the spotlight onto the achievements of the women and girls sector with a series of short, focused mini-presentations, each showcasing an achievement of work that Rosa’s funding has supported, directly or indirectly.
Facilitator: Rebecca Gill, Rosa.
Speakers:
1/ Louise Bennett, Action on Postpartum Psychosis
2/ Cecily Mwaniki – Utulivu Women’s Group
3/ Rizwana Saeed – Feel Good Women’s Group
4/ Sara D’Arcy – Surviving Economic Abuse
5/ Stephanie Healey – CWA and Edna Sackeyfio – BAWSO
6/ Ola and Varsha – Happy Baby Community
7/ Dee Montague and Debbie Schaffer – FTWW
Meet the Funders
Our ‘Meet the funders’ session provided a deeper insight into funders’ processes and priorities to help you write grant applications that hit the mark.
Facilitator: Liz Griffiths, Rosa.
Panellists:
Naomi Sampson
Lloyds Bank Foundation
Flora Craig
Garfield Weston Foundation
Anna Jarvis
Rosa
Joe Dobson
National Lottery Community Fund
How to: Bounce back when you don’t get the funding
In this ‘How To’ session, Rosie Lewis of Project Resist spoke about pragmatic ways to use your experience to plan and strategise for future funding opportunities, strengthen your organisation’s capacity to fundraise, and build your organisation’s resilience.
Facilitator: Rosie Lewis, Project Resist
How to: Create a comms strateegy for success
In this interactive ‘How To’ session, Gemma Pettman helped participants take a step back from the day-to-day to look at the bigger, strategic picture, working through a template to help refine thinking, work out priorities and set up for success.
Facilitator: Gemma Pettman, Gemma Pettman PR
Closing Plenary
Rosa’s CEO Rebecca Gill closes the Rosa Summer Conference 2024 with thanks and reflections on what we learned from the day.
Facilitator: Rebecca Gill, Rosa.
