Our Impact
Since 2016 we’ve supported 1000s of women through every step of their political journeys.
We produce online workshops and resources, as well as hold in person events to create safe spaces for women to explore their futures as leaders, legislators and champions of political governance.
Our Impact so far
9,000 women have attended our workshops & gained the skills for their political career.
2,800+ women are currently progressing on their political journey with us.
459 women are already on their journey to standing in future elections.
199 women have been elected to local councils and 2 to the Scottish parliament.
Changing the future of democracy.
Together with Engender Scotland, we hosted a workshop to map the equal representation landscape and to develop a collective theory of change to support individual and combined efforts.
We brought together 29 participants from 17 organisations spanning political parties, the equalities sector, government bodies, and academic institutions.
What we found is summarised here, alongside the next steps to creating our framework for achieving women’s equal representation in Scotland.
We make sure a lack of money or political connections don’t prevent women entering politics.
We support women from under-represented backgrounds with the personal costs of running for election to support with financial barriers to entering politics through our Fund Her programme.
“ I honestly wouldn't have had the confidence to start on my political journey without Elect Her.”
— Hillary, workshop participant
The women we’ve supported have stood for more than 10 political parties and as independents.
We are a non-partisan organisation and our programme of support hears from speakers across all political parties and independents. We need more women in every party, in every sphere of Government.
We bring women together in community to explore how to make an impact in politics.
We’ve held three large-scale events in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd, bringing hundreds of women in all their diversity together to explore taking up space in the world of politics.
Understanding our impact.
We’ve been reflecting on the first five years of progress and the difference we made to women’s political journeys in our community.
We’ve looked at our work in England and Wales (2023) and in Scotland (2022), and we’ve asked our members:
when and why they engaged with Elect Her,
what steps they have taken in their political journey and,
the extent to which Elect Her was a factor in their journey.
From that we know we helped our community in taking the decision to stand, improved and developed their network, supported them maintaining political ambitions and our help led women candidates to become active in encouraging other women to stand.
Read our reports to find out more below.
With your support we can continue to help women at every stage of their political journey.
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