About Global Girl Leading

Global Girl Leading is a leadership development programme ‘by girls, for girls’.

Supported by teachers, girls together learn to lead change.

They co-create learning activities which include negotiation skills, teamwork, risk-taking and campaigning. They are given platforms and coaching to make their voices heard.

Through this programme, they experience the power of successfully influencing change, learning resilience and finding self-confidence.

aims of Global Girl Leading

To empower girls with the knowledge, skills, experience, and capacity to deal constructively and powerfully with gender inequality and discrimination when they encounter it. Girls should have self-determination and autonomy. Global Girl Leading supports girls’ intellectual and personal development so that, as far as possible, they can achieve self-determination and autonomy, having the power of choice in their lives and the ability to live as they should wish.

To build a global sisterhood of girls advocating for each other on the issues that affect them across the world. Girls will lead the change they want to see in context-responsive ways, with an ethos of mutuality and reciprocity at the heart

For more information, please read the report on Global Girl Leading and the 2017 Impact Report

Latest News

Global Girl Leading Summit 2024

On 11th October 2024, Mulberry held its annual Global Girl Leading Summit, bringing together girls from across the UK and around the world to discuss and celebrate how women lead change at local, national and international levels. Throughout the day,…

Fundraising for Lenana Girls High School

In February 2024, Mulberry Schools Trust was contacted by Lenana Girls High School in Kenya about taking part in Global Girl Leading. Lenana is a boarding school near Nairobi that was set up by the charity Common Ground for Africa. It supports orphaned,…

Global Girl Leading Study Tour

From 17th-22nd March, eight students from across Mulberry Schools Trust travelled to New York for a Global Girl Leading study tour. Students took part in the United Nations International School's 2024 Conference: Equal Rights Equal Heights: Climbing the…

Global Girl Leading Conference 2023

Mulberry Schools Trust held its annual Global Girl Leading conference on Wednesday 11th October 2023 to celebrate the International Day of the Girl. Now in its 11th year, the day highlights and address the needs and challenges girls face, while promoting…

Dr Ogden’s visit to Australia

In July 2023, Dr Vanessa Ogden visited Australia on behalf of the Mulberry Schools Trust in order to learn more about: The Australian education system and its leadership Provision for indigenous and minority ethnic communities in the Australian…

Global Girl Leading Summit 2024

Global Girl Leading Conference 2024 – Live Stream

Speakers’ Corner 2024

This Girl is on Fire Performance

Global Girl Leading Summit 2024 – In Pictures

Global Girl Leading 2024 Conference Preview

Her Story, Our Inspiration Film

PAST EVENTS AND CONFERENCES

Event Resources

An archive of materials and activities from past events

Letters to Our Daughters

In 2024, Mulberry Schools Trust and Applied Stories collaborated to create the second volume of Letters to Our Daughters.

Featuring contributions from students in England, Australia, Wales, Kenya, Mexico and India, the anthology is a chance to hear from girls and young women about their experiences and their hopes for the future in their own words.

For more information about the project, please click here.