Free to Be SHE™ CIC provides supportive, community-based programmes for women experiencing exhaustion, overwhelm, burnout or significant life transitions. Our aim is to offer practical support before challenges escalate — within a welcoming, non-clinical environment.
A Community Interest Company (CIC) is a type of UK company created specifically to benefit a community, rather than to generate profit for owners or shareholders. Free to Be SHE (NW) CIC is a separate legal entity from the main Free to Be SHE™ business, set up so that any income it generates is reinvested directly back into supporting local women, rather than taken as profit.
In practical terms, this means we can offer reduced-cost and fully funded places to women who couldn't otherwise access this kind of support, funded through a mix of paid places, grants, and partnerships with local organisations.
We work with women across our local community who are experiencing exhaustion, overwhelm, burnout, or navigating significant life transitions — often before they'd think to ask for formal help. Through small, facilitated group sessions, we help women understand the patterns affecting their wellbeing, build emotional resilience, and reconnect with a support network of other women going through similar things.
Our goal is simple: to make sure that needing support isn't dependent on being able to afford it.
Our sessions are small and facilitated, giving every woman room to be heard. It's ordinary women, in an ordinary room, doing the quietly extraordinary work of understanding themselves — together.
Sessions combine guided learning, reflection, practical tools and supportive connection.
Support is considered individually, with dignity and without judgement.
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