Welcome to Genderquake Limited, an ideas based enterprise which provides creative solutions, strategic counsel, and capacity building services to enable individuals and organisations realise their potential. We have particular expertise in the gender dynamics of social, economic and technological change and our core client base includes women entrepreneurs, the self-employed, small business, and the not for profit sector including charities, social enterprises, and think tanks.

News
Equal Pay Article in The Independent
The Independent newspaper ran a comment piece by Genderquake founder Helen Wilkinson following February's Women and Work Commission report. "These are the harsh facts. In 2006, 30 years after the Equal Pay Act which followed hot on the heels of the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act, there is still a 17.1% pay gap between men and women. The private sector is the worst offender. In 2004, the pay gap between the sexes in full-time work was 10.1% in the public sector compared with 23.1% in the private sector. According to the Fawcett Society, which campaigns for greater opportunities for women, it will take more than 80 years to close the full-time pay gap." To read the article in full >

My Heroines receives National Lottery Grants and Local Network Fund Grant
The Awards for All programme, part of the lottery grants for local groups, has given the charitable arm of Genderquake and hagsharlotsheroines, My Heroines, two grants. The first is to develop a My Heroines website and to run creative writing and story-telling workshops for adults in London, and the other is to run workshops for young women in Brighton and Hove.

The projects will run over three months from April and will look at pioneering women from the London, Brighton and Sussex, from the dippers who helped transform Brighton from a sleepy fishing village to a cosmopolitan resort to key members of the suffragette movement. The workshop participants will have the opportunity to contribute to an archive of their local community's herstory as the best of their work will be posted on the My Heroines website. The projects will be lead by Helen and Laura Wilkinson and if you'd like to get involved in this exciting work you can contact Laura on 0870 770 3295 or laura@genderquake.com. Awards for All's main aim is to fund projects that involve people in their local community, bringing them together to take part in and enjoy a wider range of arts, heritage and other community activities.

My Heroines has also recently received a grant from the Local Network Fund to run a project with girls and young women in Tower Hamlets. The young people will be investigating their East End Heroines and the best of the tales will be published online too.

My Heroines is a new voluntary association and runs creative writing and self development workshops for children, young people and life long learners. Our aim is to promote, develop and advance human potential through education and creativity exercises through the arts, including creative writing and facilitated personal development workshops, on My Heroines themes in out of school clubs, youth centres, and adult learning centres throughout the UK. My Heroines is the charitable arm of www.hagsharlotsheroines.com and Genderquake Limited. If you'd like to speak to us about running a workshop or event please call Laura on 0870 770 3295. Alternatively, email: laura@genderquake.com.

Creative Services/Solutions
If you're looking for fresh and dynamic ideas, Genderquake's corporate materials, writing and communications service could be precisely what you need. Our effective and creative team of writers is able to advise on, research and write skillfully crafted bespoke copy for a wide range of materials. We can also develop your content strategy and initiate and produce entirely new products and publications. In addition, we have expertise in a number of areas, and we supply and will syndicate content from our story telling website, www.hagsharlotsheroines.com, as a content channel. For more information, go to our Creative Services section and see what we do.

Special Offer
Promote your work online and get a web presence at a reduced rate
For a limited period only, Genderquake is offering members a discounted price for a presence on the web. If you're self-employed, a freelancer or a small business in need of a stylish, user friendly website Genderquake can help you. A simple, effective small site could cost you as little as £500 with the option of being hosted by Genderquake. Genderquake is also well placed to offer redesign and rebranding services on existing websites, and strategic advice about how to take your site to the next level. If you'd like to hear more and discuss your options please call Laura on 0870 770 3295. Alternatively, email: laura@genderquake.com.


Genderquake Developments
Laura Wilkinson continues to act as the Managing Director of Genderquake and to develop our creative services. Meanwhile, Helen Wilkinson, Genderquake's founder, is extending her sabbatical until the new financial year. Helen's website is now live check it out here: www.helenwilkinson.com. Genderquake also welcomes Elizabeth Donnelly to the team as our Web Mistress. Elizabeth will be playing a key role in our website services and consultancy in the future.

Later in the Spring, we will be launching our newsletter, Genderquake Bytes, to keep you in touch with our activities. Finally we'd like to encourage you to tell colleagues, associates and contacts who you think will be interested in our work to make contact, register with us and visit our sister sites.

Network with like-minded people interested in writing and publishing
We would also like to draw attention to one of our sister sites, www.hagsharlotsheroines.com, a creative story telling website featuring inspirational stories about all the hags, harlots and heroines from herstory. The hags network is rapidly becoming the place where funky, feisty women can network with writers, and movers and shakers like journalists Yvonne Roberts, Maureen Freely and Jenni Murray. Membership is still free, and includes a lively entertaining newsletter featuring the story of the month, a Writer's Toolkit section with interesting features about new products, book reviews, and other useful tips. If you're an agent or publisher interested in partnership opportunities and accessing a network with herstory at their fingertips, contact: mail@hagsharlotsheroines.com.

Become an Associate/Work with us
If you have design and development skills and are capable of working in multi-media then please register your details with us and send in your CV and daily rate. We are always interested to expand our pool of associates and if you have other skills that you think are relevant please do the same. Please register first and then email your resume.

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