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

Global Girl Leading Summit 2025

Global Girl Leading Conference 2025 – Live Stream

Tina Tchen Keynote Presentation

Panel 1 – Inspirational Women’s Leadership at a National Level

Panel 2 – Inspirational Women’s Leadership at International Level

#PowerToChange Workshop

Speakers’ Corner

For Our Mothers

Latest News

International Study Tours 2026

We are excited to be offering the following International Study Tours to Mulberry Schools Trust students in 2026. New Delhi, India Join St. Mark’s Group of Schools, New Delhi, for Anjali International Friendship Week (AIFW). AIFW will be a dedicated…

Hosting International Schools

Throughout the week leading up to our Global Girl Leading Summit, our international guests took part in a rich programme of cultural and educational experiences. The programme began with a warm and vibrant Welcome Ceremony at Mulberry School for Girls,…

Global Girl Leading Summit 2025

On Friday 10th October, 2025, over 300 students attended Mulberry Schools Trust’s annual Global Girl Leading Summit at Mulberry School for Girls, with other schools across the country and abroad watching live online. This year, four international schools…

Speakers’ Corner – Call for Submissions

As a part of our 2025 Global Girl Leading Summit, held on International Day of the Girl, we’re spotlighting the voices of girls from every corner of the globe. Through a powerful video project called Speakers’ Corner, we’ll amplify the stories,…

Italy Study Tour: Students Lead Global Girl Leading Projects Abroad

The final Global Girl Leading Study Tour for this academic year took place in June in Amondola, Italy. Students got the chance to lead their own Global Girl Leading project on a topic that really mattered to them, such as the gender pay gap and activism.…
Empowering the Next Generation of Global Citizens in New York

Exciting Global Girl Leading Experience: Empowering the Next Generation of Global Citizens in New York.

As part of our transformative Global Girl Leading programme, our students were given a unique opportunity to embark on an extraordinary international study tour.

Global Girl Leaders Unite at Model United Nations Conference in Mexico

In 2024, the Trust developed a partnership with Colegio Carol Baur School in Mexico and students from the school joined our Global Girl Leading Summit.

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,…

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.

For Our Mothers


After the success of last year’s Letters to Our Daughters, Mulberry Schools Trust commissioned digital production company Applied Stories, led by Fin Kennedy, to facilitate this year’s writing project, For Our Mothers. Girls aged 11-18 were invited to write a tribute in any written form – a prose letter, a poem in verse, a short story or a combination – dedicated to their own mother, or a maternal figure in their lives. The work of students from around the world are featured in this year’s anthology; select students performed their letters live at the Global Girl Leading Summit 2025 and more have recorded their letters.

To listen to these recordings, and for more information about this project, please click here.