it's your time to shine!

Girls Out Loud is an award-winning, UK based social enterprise set up in 2009 by serial entrepreneur and inspirational speaker/coach Jane Kenyon and business woman, Ambassador for enterprise and media personality Claire Young - with the aim to raise the aspirations of young girls between the ages of 13-18.  Girls Out Loud facilitates intervention programmes in schools from one day to 3 months in duration. 

The emphasis of Girls Out Loud is to embed a more empowering mindset in girls, which in turn, reconnects them to education, helps them achieve exam success and broadens their aspirations, encourages them to find their individual voice, make better life decisions, improve their self image and become role models for future generations.

Find out more – Girls Out Loud Founders speak up
along with teachers and girls

when you wish upon a star...

Jane Kenyon - Founder

Jane is 46, (www.jane-kenyon.com) a serial entrepreneur, well respected coach and inspirational speaker/trainer.  For the past 6 years she has been working in the personal development sector facilitating mindset shifts and personal transformations with both adults and teenagers from all walks of life.  In the past 18 years Jane has bought, created, grown and sold several businesses and remains passionate about entrepreneurship, personal development and social contribution.
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Claire Young - Co-Founder & Director

Claire Young, 31, (www.claireyoung.co.uk) is the straight talking, no-nonsense sales woman who infuriated, then won over 11 million viewers to reach the final in series 4 of BBC1’s The Apprentice (2008). Since then she has worked non-stop setting up numerous business ventures and is passionate about entreprenurship and enterprise.  read more ...

Rachel Ward Lilley - Director & Head 'Big Sister'

Rachel left school at the age of 16, and started working as a sales and marketing assistant. By the age of 29, having established herself as head of Special Sales for Penguin Books, she found herself ready for a new challenge. She enrolled at the University of Manchester as a mature and independent student, and studied for a degree in psychology. After graduating, she started again with her career and, within 5 years, had been appointed Operations Director of a leading accountancy group based in the North West. read more...