Future Leaders Award – Time to apply

Are you a woman working in the advertising industry and would you like to receive financial support for a training course you would love to do? Hurry up. The deadline to apply for the WACL Future Leaders Award 17/18 is close. The deadline is now past and that the judges are currently in the process of deciding who will receive the bursary. The winners will be announced on the 26/01. Stay tuned

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Five years ago, WACL, a club of women leaders created an award to help women in the industry to fund training of their choice, their purpose being to accelerate gender equality in the communication and marketing industry. The objective is to offer them help to enhance their likelihood of getting to the top ranks of their organizations and become a leader. Giving financial support to fund a training course of their choice was a way of doing this.

Five years later, the annual award is still going, and if you want to be part of it, it’s time to work on your application. The financial support will cover 75% of the training, the other 25% having to be paid by your employer, with a maximum contribution of £3000.

And there is a novelty this year. Among the 25 to 30 bursaries that will be given, 10 of them will be fully funded! “We wanted to acknowledge the current economic landscape and give women coming from smaller, more entrepreneurial companies, where money for training isn’t available, equal chance to receive one of our awards. We didn’t want to leave anyone out,” explains Rachel Forde, CEO of Spark Foundry UK and sits of WACL’s Exec Committee for the FLA.

Another novelty: this year the winners will receive an hour long one-to-one mentoring session with one of WACL’s senior leaders.