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.

Global Girl Leading 2024

Mulberry Schools Trust and Mulberry Schools Foundation are delighted to be holding a Global Girl Leading Summit on Friday 11th October 2024.

The summit will be taking place at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster, London. Speakers and students from across the UK and around the world will come together to discuss and celebrate women’s leadership at local, national and global levels.

Any schools who are interested are welcome to join, including those outside the UK. If you would like to sign up, please email info@mulberryschoolsfoundation.org.

The 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 our full report on Global Girl Leading and its executive summary, as well as the 2017 Impact Report

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FULL REPORT IMPACT REPORT

Latest News

Fundraising for Lenana Girls High School

4 September 2024

Earlier this year, Mulberry Schools Trust was contacted by Lenana Girls High School in Kenya about taking part in Global Girl Leading. Since then, students from Lenana have taken part in a range of Global Girl Leading activities including Letters to…

Global Girl Leading Summit 2024

2 September 2024

On 11th October 2024, Mulberry will be holding its annual Global Girl Leading Summit. The summit will bring 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…

Global Girl Leading Study Tour

23 March 2024

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

11 October 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

1 September 2023

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…

Past events and conferences

This page contains information about past Global Girl Leading events. For information about Mulberry conferences before 2016, please see the Event Resources section.

Global Girl Leading Events are designed, organised and hosted by students.
They choose the issues events tackle, invite attendees and create the programmes.

Girl Leading Residential,
April 2017

Partnership of Equals Conference, October 2018

Jude Kelly Thought Leadership, December 2018 – February 2020

Global Girl Leading: A Celebration for International Day of the Girl, October 2020

Digital Generation, Our Generation Conference, October 2021

Global Girl Leading Conference, October 2023

Event Resources

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Letters to Our Daughters

In 2018, Mulberry Schools Trust and its partner schools created Letters to Our Daughters, a performance poetry anthology inspired by President Barack Obama’s book ‘Of thee I Sing: A Letter to my Daughters’.

Some of the poems are triumphant; some present a challenge to society; some are painful. All are moving in different ways and tackle themes that are at the heart of Global Girl Leading.

This year, in collaboration with Applied Stories, we are excited to be creating a new anthology of letters and performances – watch this space for the new collection.

For more information, click here.

Contact us

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exec@mulberryschoolstrust.org
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