Inspiring Indian Women Group, (Not for profit organisation) was started with the vision to reach out and inspire each other with their success stories. It not only aims to help and promote Indian culture across the globe but also provide a healthy platform for our Indian women to motivate and support others.
IIW Motto – Lift! Support!! Rise!!!Purpose – To collaborate and coordinate to create opportunities for each inherent talent, dreams and desires to fulfill. Also try to change attitude and stereotypical perceptions towards women.
Vision is to bring together women from all over the world on one platform and work towards bigger goals. Get wider ideas and network with ladies worldwide to work towards upliftment and creating awareness towards social causes. To organise programmes related to cultural heritage and assist in making the presence of stronger Indian community not only in London but elsewhere. Outcome – Be known faces all over for your work, your endeavours, your business, your Art, your creativity and contribute towards prosperity of family and self.
Goal- Personal Satisfaction
The team, Shital Kamdar, Tejal Shah, Shipra Gomes, Deepa Vaswani, Shalini Jain, Pavithra Venkatesh, Purvi Thakkar , Meghana Sengupta, Cllr PushpaMak, Gayatri Shenoy, Kavita Gupta, Shikha Garg and Rashmi Narvekar, Priyanka Bhargava and Bhakti Vaidyahas been working hard to carry it forward in supporting women from all fields to grow professionally as well as personally. The group’s tagline, Lift! Support! Rise! is inspired by the Poet and Civil Rights activist Maya Angelou’s quote, ‘Try and be a Rainbow in someone’s cloud’.
Its members are based not only in the U.K but all over the world. In just six months the membership touched almost 5000. Slowly and steadily the group is rising to reach its objective as a support by sharing inspirational stories of women in all fields be it in performing arts, entrepreneurship, children’s talent or even creating awareness against any gender bias issue. The group believes in collaborating and coordinating with other Indian groups to organise events, for example with IWIL, IIL, Hindi women in UK, Made in India, IMUK, Jammu Kashmir festival team, Essex Indians, Events to Empower , Women 2 Women and Brahmin Society of North London etc. From talk shows to Republic Day and Independence Day celebrations, Women Cricket Match, to showcasing our Indian Cultural extravaganza in crowded non-Indian places like various iconic stations in UK, Charity fund raiser; Nakshi Bold and Beautiful and Dance for a cause and also the very popular events like Baishakhi and Prekarva Chauth on public demand. We often try and create opportunities to various women having small scale business and trying to sell through FB or limited market. Our uniqueness is that , we allow one business post a day. We now have 3 Whatsapp group, soon will be touching 12,000 members on FB.
Inspiring Indian Women has come a long way since its first event on Giddha along with Heartfulness. The IIW team is rising; it has a cultural team, IT team, Deputy Directors, Executive members, Digital Marketing head IT UK as well as Digital Marketing Head IT India. The team comprises of both influential and successful men and women in London with the drive to help the community genuinely.
The IIW website was formally launched in the Houses of Commons in the presence of Hon’ble MP Mr Virendra Sharma, Hon’ble M.P Mr Bob Blackman, and Hon’ble M.P Ms Rupa Haq along with 5 councilors on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2018. As Rashmi Mishra puts it, selflessly we move by simply motivating, encouraging, inspiring, influencing, sharing and caring for each other. This is the platform, where there are no admins, no superiority syndrome as well as no place for jealousy and ego.