Women of the World Mental Health Empowerment

Women Of the World (WOW) is a peer-led mental health support programme for groups of young women across Cheshire.

The programme provides a safe space for conversations about the challenges that contribute to mental ill health in young women – including body image , social media, unhealthy relationships and transitionary periods, while empowering them to challenge injustice. We support young women to educate and empower other young women through this wellbeing service.  The strategies we share help to manage mental health and wellbeing in the longer term.

We were proud to have received an initial 3-year grant from Pilgrim Trust to start the WOW group (see report below) and working with other funded partners across the North of England to promote the need for a gender and age specific mental health service for young women. In this report you can see the difference made by Youth Fed and funded partners.

Thank you to Cheshire Community Foundation for providing funding to extend this work throughout 2026.