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The Women's Chapter is an application-only network for senior professionals, business owners and female founders who want to build connections, collaborate and solve business challenges together. It says it has grown through applications and referrals to more than 5,500 members.
Membership includes in-person and virtual events, a monthly virtual member meeting and mastermind, a peer accountability partner, a members' WhatsApp group and directory, and profiling opportunities. It is a certified B Corp and donates 5% of membership fees to charities that support women and girls.
Guildford, Surrey, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
City Women Network (CWN) is a London-based membership network for women in business and the professions, founded in the City of London in 1978.
It began among women in banking and law and now has individual and corporate members from a range of sectors, including employees, self-employed entrepreneurs and women moving on from corporate careers. Members go to career development, wellbeing, networking and social events, can watch recordings of past events, and get a members-only area and LinkedIn group. They also see external board and trust roles. Members can volunteer as mentors or coaches on its mentoring and coaching programme, which typically asks for about an hour a month over six months.
Individual membership costs £195 a year or £22 a month. Corporate membership covers up to 20 people at a price that is not published, and includes free entry to most CWN events, the option to host events, places on the mentoring and coaching programme and up to two places on its Rising Star Programme. The website lists an 11-member board, and the network supports a charity partner, Woman's Trust.
London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
The Institute of Directors (IoD) is the UK's professional body for company directors, founded in 1903 and operating under a Royal Charter. It provides director training and qualifications (including the Chartered Director designation), governance guidance, policy representation, and member services, and its NED Hub offers factsheets, guides, webinars and CPD specifically for non-executive directors.
PowerWomen Network is a London-based network of senior women business leaders, founded by Tanuja Randery and incorporated in 2017.
It is kept small so that every member knows the others. Members are women from different industries with senior-level experience who commit to giving their time to develop others. They meet for peer-to-peer coaching and advice on personal development, business topics and advancing women in leadership, and the network aims to become a pool of senior women for board and chief executive appointments. All activities follow the Chatham House Rule, so what is said can be shared but not who said it.
Membership fees and the joining process are not published. Tickets for its summit, Leading the Future, hosted by PwC, cost £75 for members, £40 for Rising Stars, described as executives one or two steps from a C-suite role, and £95 for an Ally Pass. The network also produces the PowerWomen Speak podcast. Tanuja Randery, a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), is Managing Director for Amazon Web Services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Boardwave is a free, partner-funded peer community for European technology founders and chief executives, registered in Canterbury and set up in 2022.
It is open to founders, chief executive officers (CEOs), chairs and non-executive directors (NEDs) of European technology, software-as-a-service (SaaS), artificial intelligence (AI) and software-enabled businesses scaling towards and past €100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). Full Membership, for companies with about €1 million to over €100 million ARR, includes small moderated peer groups called Breakouts, dinners and one-to-one executive mentoring from leaders a stage ahead. Digital Membership, for earlier-stage companies with up to €1 million ARR, covers masterclasses, peer mentoring and the online platform. Applications are reviewed one by one, and bootstrapped, venture-backed and private equity-owned companies can all apply.
Membership costs nothing, because partner firms such as investors and advisers fund the community. Events range from small dinners to an annual conference, Boardwave Live, and the online directory lists more than 2,000 vetted members. The company, Boardwave Ltd (number 14105403), was co-founded by Kath Easthope, its chief executive, and Phill Robinson, its chair. It states that it has donated more than £350,000 to Cure Parkinson's.
Canterbury, Kent, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
WACL (Women in Advertising and Communications Leadership) is a London-based club for senior women in advertising and communications, founded in 1923.
Its stated aim is to accelerate gender equality in the advertising and communications industries, including a campaign for women to hold half of all chief executive roles. Members are mostly chief executives, founders or the most senior marketers at client organisations, agencies, media owners and trade bodies. Membership is by nomination from one member, seconded by another, and applicants need to have taken part in WACL events within the previous two years. Members meet at dinners and drinks and take part in peer mentoring, a guest speaker programme and campaigns such as #ChangeTheStats. For women earlier in their careers it runs the WACL Talent Awards, which fund training through bursaries, an annual Festival of Talent and Talent Sessions of mentoring and events.
The annual subscription is not published. Members commit to 'The Power of 3': attending one dinner or members' drinks, buying or donating one ticket for mentoring or the festival, and acting as a mentor, committee member or campaign supporter. WACL says these costs come to about £630 to £950 a year on top of the subscription. It has about 300 members. It operates through WACL Limited, a company limited by guarantee incorporated in 2004, according to The Gazette.
London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Henley Business School is the business school of the University of Reading, founded in 1945, with campuses in Reading and Henley-on-Thames.
Its executive education is aimed at managers, senior leaders and board-level executives. It is offered as open programmes, custom programmes for organisations, apprenticeships at Levels 6 and 7, and Executive MBA and master's degrees. Coaching courses are run through the Henley Centre for Coaching. The Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching lasts nine months part-time, with three full-day workshops held at the Greenlands campus or live online, and asks for at least five years' management experience. Further certificates cover advanced coaching practice, team and systemic coaching and coaching supervision. The MSc in Coaching for Behavioural Change takes at least 30 months part-time.
The Professional Certificate costs £7,250 and the MSc £25,800, both exempt from VAT, or £18,550 for the MSc if the certificate has already been completed. The certificate is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) at Level 1, the Association for Coaching (AC) and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) at Senior Practitioner level. The school states that it holds accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). It reports more than 7,000 students and 107,000 alumni. Henley Management College merged with the University of Reading in 2008.
Professional credentials
ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), EMCC EIA Senior Practitioner
Female Advisory Board (FAB) is a peer advisory organisation for female founders, chief executives and managing directors, launched in Yorkshire.
Members join one of three boards set by business size. FAB Scale is for businesses with revenue of £500,000 to £3 million, FAB Enterprise for £3 million to £20 million and FAB Vanguard for £20 million and above. Each board meets in person for 12 full days a year, led by a Chair, with members drawn from non-competing sectors. Monthly meetings run from 8am to 2pm. Scale and Enterprise members also meet their Chair one to one every two months, while Vanguard members, in groups of ten, have quarterly check-ins. Two annual events bring all three boards together. Membership is by application, and applicants are vetted for sector fit.
Fees are not published. The website says cost depends on tier and location, with payment by direct debit on a rolling contract. It lists London on its map and plans boards in Manchester, Cheshire and Liverpool from autumn 2026. Its founder and chief executive is Samantha Addy. The operating company, Female Advisory Board Ltd, was incorporated in 2019 as Aim High Recruitment Limited and took its current name in June 2023, according to The Gazette.
Yorkshire, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Women in PR (WPR) is a UK membership network for senior and middle-management women working in public relations, with most events held in London.
Full and digital membership are open to public relations practitioners with five or more years' experience, or those working at middle-management or director level. Full membership is meant for people who can get to events in London and includes free entry to standard in-person events and all online events. Digital membership is for those further away and covers online events and one in-person event in their region. Members can apply for a 12-month mentoring programme run with PRWeek UK, which pairs mentees with women in very senior UK PR roles for at least six sessions. Employers can buy group memberships at a 10% discount.
Full membership costs £100 a year or £10 a month, and digital membership £50 a year or £5 a month. Members are all female or female-identifying, although men are welcome at events. WPR also keeps a directory of women speakers, campaigns on issues affecting women in the industry and gives members links to Global Women in PR. It is run by an elected committee of 20, led by its president, Ginny Paton.
London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Connectd is a London-based platform, launched in 2020, that matches startups with non-executive directors, board advisors and fractional executives.
Startups describe what they need and are matched with experts from its network, with matches reviewed within 48 hours. Roles can be pro bono or paid, and many start pro bono before moving to paid, equity or blended terms. For executives building a portfolio career, its Transition to Portfolio offer includes self-paced academies for fractional executive and board advisor roles. Each has five modules, 180 minutes of one-to-one mentoring and a guaranteed pro bono placement, lasting three months on the fractional route and six months on the board advisor route. It suggests members have around 10 years in a senior leadership role, and most train alongside a full-time job.
Startups can use the platform free for the first six months. Fees for executives are not published. Connectd states that each academy pathway carries 30 continuing professional development (CPD) points, but does not name an accrediting body. It was founded by Roei Samuel, is operated by LinkExec Ltd, and lists offices in London, Manchester, Poland and Mumbai. Its website says it was ranked sixth in LinkedIn's Top UK startups list for 2024.
Mission Match is a UK retained search firm that appoints chairs, non-executive directors (NEDs) and senior executives.
Its main work is board search for chairs, NEDs, independent directors and committee members of private, private equity-backed, public and not-for-profit boards. It also recruits chief executives, finance, operations and people directors and other senior executives, places interim executives, and helps private equity investors assess and appoint leadership teams after an acquisition. Searches follow six stages, from a strategic briefing and market mapping to assessment, longlisting and onboarding, and every candidate is assessed against its cognitive diversity framework. Coaching is offered to senior leaders, new chairs and interview candidates by video call or in person in London, including support through a new leader's first 100 days.
Fees are not published. The firm says each search is led by a partner and that it takes a limited number of mandates. Its founder and partner, Lisa Moses, worked in executive search before senior roles in government, including at the Cabinet Office, and is a qualified civil and commercial mediator. Partner Adria Linder founded a search firm in New York and later led executive search at OakNorth, a UK bank. It is recruiting the first cohort of Mission: Board for All, a mentoring programme that pairs board-ready candidates with experienced NEDs.
Chapter Zero is a not-for-profit forum for non-executive directors and chairs on climate governance, founded in 2019 and based in Canterbury, Kent.
Members are non-executive directors (NEDs), senior independent directors and chairs on listed, private, government and non-profit boards, with an associate tier for people who do not hold a current NED role. It runs roundtables, workshops, webinars and conferences, online or in person, and publishes briefings, a monthly bulletin, a Knowledge Hub and toolkits including a Transition Planning Toolkit and a Board Toolkit. In return for free membership, members are asked to take part in events and an annual survey.
Membership is free. Chapter Zero Limited is a company limited by guarantee, funded by philanthropic organisations including the Children's Investment Fund Foundation and the IKEA Foundation. It was developed with support from the Hughes Hall Centre for Climate Engagement at the University of Cambridge, and belongs to Chapter Zero Alliance, a network of 34 chapters in more than 70 countries. It states it has more than 3,700 members, and that 73% of companies in the FTSE 350 share index have at least one member on their board.
