GROW aims to provide a unique holistic service that enables Rotherham women and their families to make informed choices. This is delivered by working closely with our partners to ensure a wide range of services are available to Rotherham women.

The Advocacy Project offers 1-1 care and support that includes advocating and raising issues that affect women’s lives.
The Family Project enables Rotherham Lone Parents to access support, advocacy and training opportunities to create movement towards their personal goals.
The Diversity Project ensures that GROW meets the needs of the diverse communities of Rotherham. And that diversity is embedded into the delivery of our service
The Training Project consistently provides a high quality training provision that is responsive to the needs of Rotherham women and community groups.
The Rotherham Women's Network supports and represents the views and aspirations of all Rotherham Women giving them a voice locally and nationally.
The development and maintenance of partnerships and collaborative working remains a key priority for GROW.  The services of our partners are vital to ensuring that Rotherham women are supported in making informed choices.
Effective networking continues to enable GROW to inform, be informed, influence and be influenced.  GROW relies on the information from our networks to enhance our work and for network partners to hear what Rotherham women are saying.

Services

Since 1988 GROW has offered a range of activities and support to women and their families who are from a variety of backgrounds and with differing needs to improve their well being, security and life opportunities.

GROW delivers its service in the communities.  Project workers offer a range of opportunities and support:
• A range of training opportunities from taster activity to NOCN level two
• Support to engage with the Women’s Network activity including Maternity Services Liaison Committee and Bereavement Service
• Working with young parents and parents to be, including a Peer Support Project
• Advocacy support at meetings and time to fully understand meeting content and implications
• Supported signposting to specialist services
• 1-1 support to develop achievable action plans for change and progression
• Support and signposting to move closer to the labour market

GROW believes to bring about real change for local women it should not only be the women who have to undertake training and change but services on offer sometimes needs challenging and be given the opportunity to involve/listen to community voices when developing services e.g. community education.  GROW workers offer this challenge.
 

Partnership working

GROW took the lead in the SRB6 delivery with UMCC, ‘Women’s Development Project’ to enable women living in the Eastwood to access and sustain training.

GROW is taking the financial management lead for Rotherham Children, Young People and Families Voluntary Sector Consortium on the 3 year CWFD Contract to support the involvement of the Private and 3rd Sectors in local integrated children’s workforce strategies. 

GROW mangers the 3 year The Big Lottery Contract, ‘Peer Mentoring/Befriending Service for Teenage Parents and Parents to be’.  The Rowan Centre (Barnardos) supports the engagement activities and GROW delivers the training.

GROW is a member of the Rotherham Children, Young People and Families Voluntary Sector Consortium and Safe@Last are leading on a Contact with V to deliver engaging young people into new volunteering opportunities.
 

Comments from beneficiaries & partners

“GROW workers are supportive and patient and give good information”

“Without my project worker and GROW, I dare not think where I would be now”

My Project Worker has been a god-send and is a great source of support in my life”