What's Next? For Women

13/02/2026

The WNFW Community Recipe Book is happening 🍲

With your help, we're going to create:

📖 The Energy Table: Community Recipes for Living Well and Living Longer

We’d love you to be part of it.

Even if you live outside Torbay. While the book will raise money for a Torbay based charity, we plan to publish it via Amazon so it can reach as many women, families and communities as possible.

We’re looking for a good mix of recipes. Starters, mains, desserts, snacks. Real food that supports energy and living well.

If we receive lots of submissions, we’ll bring together a small group of women for a relaxed, fun evening to review and select the final collection.

And don’t worry, if you’ve shared your contact details, we’ll let you know whether your recipe is included, and may still share this with others, another way, so your work won't be wasted.

This book is rooted in WNFW and will raise money for a Torbay based charity, but anyone can submit a recipe, from anywhere.

This won't be a diet book. No perfection needed. Just good food, shared generously.

There’s also a question in the form inviting you to suggest a Torbay charity that supports women through food, nourishment, community, or wellbeing. We’ll share the final shortlist for community voting later.

You'll find how to access the food list and submit your recipe here:
👉 https://forms.gle/Rho3Wud2SqkpRxG77

There’s also a simple Word document you can download first if you’d prefer to draft your recipe before completing the form. You'll find it at the top of the form.

Please submit one recipe per form. If you have more than one, we’d love them too, just complete it again.

Thank you for helping to shape this 💜

I'm excited to see what together we create!

13/02/2026

Who used to watch Dawson's Creek? ✋️ I did.

I was very sad to hear of the passing of actor James Van Der Beek this week, but delighted to havde, and watch this lasting reel from him.

Go gentle.

See how it lands for you.

I won't spoil the punchline, but trust me when I say I believe this is a truth, and one filled with love, not sadness.

Reel in the comments below. 👇

11/02/2026

Love this. 💛

I'm glad I have a stomach. And one that works as it's meant to. It's an important part of our bodies.

No need for anyone to look at it though... 😉

Link to full post in the comments. 👇

11/02/2026

✨ We support this.

“I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.” – Madonna

This is exactly why What’s Next? For Women exists.

Not to compare.
Not to compete.
Not to copy.

But to believe in ourselves.
To back each other.
To build friendships through action.

Whatever your background.
Whatever stage of life you’re at.
You are welcome here.

Join us 💛
Link and QR code in the image below.

10/02/2026

Would you like to find 'your' voice?

Not copying anyone else.

Not trying to sound like you think you should.

Just sounding like you.

I meet so many women who have a lot to say.
Rich insights. Great questions. Things others don’t see.

I often wish they had the confidence to share it with more people.

I recently joined a session with Emily McGuirk. Even though I’ve spoken to large groups and led plenty of training over the years, I fancied a refresher. Emily didn’t disappoint.

I came away with:

• simple, practical tips to make speaking more enjoyable

• reminders of things I already knew, but had forgotten

• reassurance that I don’t need to memorise scripts at all (a big relief with brain fog!)

Emily is easy to talk to, grounded, and very real. I’ll let her explain the why and how much better than I ever could.

So it got me thinking…

👉 What would you be saying, if confidence wasn’t holding you back?

I’m chatting with Emily to see if she might run a fun, intimate session for in Torbay, just women, supportive, no pressure.

Would you be interested?

Please like this post if you would 💜

If you’d like to attend Emily’s next session, or find out more about her, I’ll pop the Eventbrite link in the comments. It’s great value for money.

This is about finding your voice, not changing who you are. No one is like you. The world is much less without your voice. ✨️

09/02/2026

Chatting to someone recently who has horses, I wondered if anyone would like a horsey event?

I've been on horseback a couple of times and enjoyed it. Not enough to buy one and continue though, but it was fun.

So, is this you?

🐴 I've not been on a horse since childhood, and would love to ride again?

🐴 I've always wanted to see what it feels like to ride a horse?

Or, maybe:

🐴 I love animals and would enjoy spending time with horses?

🐴 I'd be interested in working with horses to learn more about myself.

With horseriding from Finlake Horse riding centre, or in keeping with our support of local charities, supporting and/or being hosted by: Sirona Therapeutic Horsemanship or the Mare & Foal Santuary?

🤔 This could be an event to do with your grand/children, not just other women?

None in Torbay - do you know know of anything like this in ?

Please like this post to let us know if this type of event would interest you.

And if you have any expert knowledge, could we work with you to create it?

09/02/2026

Take a look at this post, and comments. Bringing up a teenager can be hard. And they came with no instructions. 🤣

Could this become a future event?

Calling it something like 'Growing Teenagers' for those parents, grandparents, and step-....

For those with teenagers now in their life, or that have gone through this period.

The stories I bet we could tell...
The comfort we could offer...
The encouragement we could give...


We could have an expert host this (know anyone who could do this, please tag their name in the comments and ask them to get in touch via this page),

or,

We could keep this simple with a few of us runing this ourselves, in a fun way (speed dating meets agony aunt), keeping the costs down to not be a barrier to anyone, at a good time, at a suitable venue, and supporting a local charity too.

It might feel good to know our hard earned experience could help others.

What do you think?

Would this be useful?

Would anyone like to help organise this, promote it, or even take a lead?

09/02/2026

Privacy and respect is important to WNFW

When we run surveys, responses are anonymous unless you choose to share your details. Any information shared is used only to support this community and will never be sold or passed on.

If you include your contact details and later want them removed, you can contact us via this page.

08/02/2026

I can’t do this alone. And I don’t want to. 💜

WNFW won’t work if it’s all about me.

I set this up to build new, meaningful friendships, with you.

I’m not the only person with ideas for future events.

And I really don’t want to be.

If you’ve got an idea you’d love to see happen,
or you’d like to help shape something,
or even help promote an event,
I’d be really happy to work with you to create it and offer it to the women in Torbay who will benefit from this space.

Please don’t hold back.

There’s no such thing as a silly idea.

I create ideas for a living and trust me, they never start off perfect.

Let’s hear your ideas via this Google Form. Link to this is in the comments section below👇💬

** You'll find the form also includes details of what a WNFW event looks like, so you know what we're looking for.

When we run surveys, responses are anonymous unless you choose to share your details.

🔒 Privacy note: You can comment or message us publicly or privately. Any ideas shared will be treated with respect and only used to help shape WNFW. Nothing will be shared or used without your permission.

08/02/2026

Love it when food looks tasty and is good for you.

This looks good. Looks like it has a lot of the great foods that nourish our body.

What do you think Emma at Embrace The Menopause?

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AjSSXRACQ/

07/02/2026

Fab idea. Wishing them all the best as they build this group.

Send your menfolk to them who'd like this...>>>>>

After a lot of interest on our previous post we have gone ahead and arranged a dad and baby group. First meet is this coming Sunday the 8th. Feel free to join

07/02/2026

A women's group. What do you need? Does it exist already or maybe you need to create it?

Great idea The Mothership and being so inclusive. is too.

The Mothership make a great point, one I really agree with, that there are many great groups... and The Mothership is one of them.

We're all different and that's ok.

Some are looking for their tribe, in one group.

Others are comfortable flitting between multiple groups, depending on the theme, activity, timing, or even 'the feels'.

What's important is you get what you need.

So please use this post to add the names, and/or details of any groups you know of, where women are welcomed and supported. 👇

Final thought... is there a Grandmothership, Granship, Nanaship, or Nonaship group too?!

✨There are so many great ‘mum groups’ out there, but we’re not one of them… and there’s a good reason for that.

Every session I run, from the bliss of Baby Spa and Baby Massage to the wild UV Tuff Trays and keepsake sessions are FULLY inclusive. We specialise in creating a friendly, supportive, safe space for everyone ❤️ If you are a caregiver for a little one we welcome you.

And that’s not all… I understand how important it is to share these bonding experiences as a family, we’re all about the village, so an extra adult is always welcome to come along, whether that’s another parent, granny or just a supportive friend. NO EXTRA COST.

Of course our weekday sessions are still mostly attended by mums, however times are changing and we are seeing more and more shared parental leave and more fathers keen to get involved. This week we welcomed 2 dads at Baby Massage with their families and I’m looking forward to meeting lots more at our Valentine’s sessions starting this week! 🫶🏼