Why we built the membership
Not Just Hosting Events
For the last six months, our monthly taster sessions have sold out every single time. We’ve watched women travel in from Newcastle, Halifax, Liverpool and Lancashire, not just Manchester, to spend a morning in a room full of other Muslim women building businesses. That tells us something. It tells us this community is needed.
But it’s also taught us something else: a brilliant two-hour event, however much it gives you in the moment, has a ceiling on what it can actually change.
What an event gives you
Our tasters have included real substance: 60-second pitches where you share your business and your “ask,” accountability moments, group coaching, motivation, and honest conversations about the excuses that hold us back. Women have left with new contacts, sparked collaborations, and arranged longer e-coffees off the back of one conversation. That’s real value, and it’s not going anywhere. We’ll keep running ad hoc events open to everyone, members and non-members alike, because that door should always be open.
But by design, an event is a moment. You feel inspired on the night, you might even leave with a task on a Post-it note, and then life happens, the WhatsApp group goes quiet on your goals, and three months later you’re back in a room meeting brand new faces, starting the introductions all over again.
That’s not a flaw in the format. It’s just what a single event is, and isn’t.
What changes when it’s regular
Growth: in a business, in confidence, in the courage to ask for what you actually need, rarely happens in a single sitting. It happens in the gap between sessions: in the task you set yourself in July, and someone asks you about it in August. In the pitch you practised once, and now deliver without your hands shaking. In the relationship that’s had ten months to become real, not ten minutes.
That’s the difference between a feel-good moment and a working relationship.
Founding membership is our answer to that gap. It’s the same warmth, the same format you’ve come to know from our tasters, but stretched across a year, with the same faces returning each month, accountability that actually has teeth because people are still there next time to ask you about it, and a community that’s had time to become more than a group of strangers who once shared a room.
Both things, on purpose
We’re not choosing between events and membership - we need both, and they do different jobs.
Ad hoc events are the front door: open, low-commitment, a taste of what this community feels like. Membership is what happens when you decide you want more than a taste: when you’re ready to commit to your business, and to a group of women who’ll commit right back to you.
If that’s the season you’re in, we’d love to have you. If it’s not yet, we’ll still see you at the next event. 🤍
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