Law group launches crowdfunding campaign for wellbeing initiative

Sally Penni

Women in the Law UK, the Manchester-based national professional development and support organisation, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to improve wellbeing among women in the legal sector.

The campaign, which runs until July 21, has been set up to cover the costs of training a counsellor for members to call and to fund a performance coach for members to call to discuss career development issues.

The campaign is also intended to fund the cost of training mental health first aiders to attend the organisation’s regular wellbeing-themed events.

The crowdfunding campaign is also intended to provide a bursary to cover the cost of one week’s work experience for a young person considering a career in the legal profession.

Sally Penni, barrister-at-law and founder of Women in the Law UK, said: “Women in the Law UK exists to promote retention of female talent in the legal sector and to support women at all stages of their careers. Encouraging better wellbeing is a hugely important part of this.

“The law is a high-pressure profession and, while there is much more that firms and chambers can do to improve the environment in which both women and men work, it is also incumbent on all of us to look out for each other.

“This is what this crowdfunding campaign is all about – providing essential resources to support members when they need it most.”

This follows on from the success of the inaugural Women in the Law UK essay Competition that took place earlier this year.

Women in the Law UK was founded by Sally Penni to provide support to women at all stages of their legal careers and to address the gap in female representation in leadership roles within the profession. It has more than 700 members and operates nationwide.

Over the past year it has held formal gatherings in London, Leeds, Liverpool and Edinburgh. It held its first events in Birmingham and Glasgow in June and plans to launch in more UK cities over the course of 2019.

Details of the campaign can be found online at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/women-in-the-law-uk-funding-wellbeing

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