| Social Founders Talk | Sadaffe Abid- Founder & CEO of CIRCLE Women + Noel Mathias - Founder & Managing Director, WEvolution
**THE ORIGINAL LINE-UP FOR THIS EVENT, YVONNE FIELD OBE + JAKE FERGUSON HAS BEEN MOVED TO WEDNESDAY, 17TH OF SEPTEMBER - Please rebook using the new link: https://lu.ma/eas8a4u5**
Join us for our online series ‘Social Founders Talk’, where we invite social founders to engage in a meaningful and honest conversation about their experiences along their founder journeys. Followed by an audience Q&A.
Engage with our speakers and fellow founders, and gain practical advice and guidance in an open, honest, and confidential environment.
Speakers
We are joined this month by Sadaffe Abid, Founder and CEO of CIRCLE Women. She is a social entrepreneur passionate about unlocking women’s potential through digital and financial inclusion. She founded CIRCLE Women Association, a tech-enabled nonprofit that’s empowered over 200,000 lives across Pakistan, helping women gain digital skills, financial literacy, and career readiness.
At CIRCLE, they use technology to help women thrive. From basic digital literacy to tech skills like coding and digital marketing through their TechKaro programme, they equip women—especially from underserved areas—with tools to access learning, jobs, and entrepreneurship.
Noel Mathias is the Founder and Managing Director of WEvolution. The organisation nurture collectives called Small, Powerful Groups: meaningful, resourceful and accountable communities where everyone can be a change-maker and an entrepreneur. Together they've established 350 Small, Powerful Groups empowering over 1,500 women to find their voice. They've ignited the entrepreneurial spark in 500 women and generated £26 million in social and economic value, revitalising communities typically overlooked.
The concept for the now 14-year organisation stemmed from an eye-opening trip to India which Noel had arranged for himself and 13 Glaswegian women to visit and learn about the Self-Help Group (SHG) model in India. Specifically how communities used it to lift people out of poverty and provide economic opportunities for others.
This interactive session will offer:
Insightful stories from a seasoned social founder and leader.
Practical lessons and tips you can apply to your own journey.
Space for honest conversations with fellow social founders who understand the unique challenges you face.
This event is for Social Founders - founders of social enterprises, charities, CICs and social impact organisations only.
We will start the meeting at 12:45 and end it at 14:30 to allow for time to connect with fellow social founders.
Social Founders:
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