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SUMMARY:Women In Timber Seminar 2026
DESCRIPTION:Now sold out! Contact us to join the waiting list!\nFollowing the success of our inaugural event in 2025\, Women in Timber is delighted to announce that tickets are now available for the Women In Timber Seminar 2026\n🗓️ Thursday 1st October | 10:00 – 16:30\n📍 Oulton Hall Hotel\, Nr Leeds\n🎟️ £75 + VAT per person\n\nWhat to expect on the day\n\n 	Tea\, coffee &amp\; refreshments throughout\n 	Two-course lunch\n 	Complimentary Wi-Fi\n 	Free onsite parking\n 	Discounted room rates (see our website for details)\n 	Charity raffle with some fantastic prizes up for grabs\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n💚 Women in Timber proudly supports the Timber Trades’ Benevolent Society (TTBS)\, helping to raise awareness of the vital work they do within our timber community.\nSpeakers\n👉️ Danielle Thornton-Walker -Yes She Can \n\n\nDanielle Thornton-Walker is a qualified Transformational Coach and Mindfulness Practitioner with over 15 years’ experience supporting individuals and teams across education\, leadership\, business and professional development environments. Specialising in developing self-awareness\, emotional intelligence\, and resilient ways of working that support an individual’s connection to self\, wellbeing and organisational performance.\nHer approach integrates coaching\, mindfulness\, and evidence-informed practices to deliver practical\, accessible tools that can be applied in high-demand\, fast-paced environments.\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n👉️ Katie Gunstone - Mums Achieving More\n\nKatie Gunstone is a working mum\, coach and founder of Mums Achieving More\, a coaching business dedicated to empowering ambitious working mums to thrive both professionally and personally. Alongside her coaching work\, Katie is part of the timber industry through her role at Juha.co.uk\, giving her first hand insight into the realities and opportunities for women working across a traditionally male dominated sector.\n\nAligned closely with the Women in Timber mission to celebrate\, connect and empower women\, Katie is passionate about creating space for honest conversations around ambition\, motherhood\, confidence\, challenges women face in the workforce and career progression. Having started her career in the timber industry\, spent 10 years working for a FTSE 100 company\, and then returned to timber as a working mum\, Katie understands first hand both the challenges women face and the immense value they bring to the industry.\n\nThrough 1:1 coaching\, Katie supports women to gain clarity\, confidence and belief in what’s possible\, while defining steps for success on their own terms.\n\n👉️ Nicole Allison - Worcester City Women Football Club (WCWFC)\n\nNicole Allison is a recognised leader in women’s sport with over 13 years’ experience across all levels of football - from grassroots and community projects to the professional game and governing bodies. Holding an MSc in Football Business\, she first experienced the sport as a player and coach before moving into management and leadership roles off the pitch.\n\nHer career has included roles at Kantar Media\, the English Football League\, and Tottenham Hotspur FC\, where she progressed to become General Manager of Tottenham Hotspur Women\, playing a key role in the club’s development during a pivotal period for the women’s game.\n\nBefore incorporating Worcester City Women FC in 2021\, Nicole also represented players and coaches\, supporting their careers and transitions beyond the pitch.\n\nToday\, she is the Founder and Director of Worcester City Women FC (WCWFC)\, an independent female-owned club at the heart of her mission to create meaningful opportunities for women and girls in football. Alongside this\, Nicole is co-founder of SheHub\, a global benchmarking platform for women’s sports clubs and leagues\, designed to drive insight\, standards\, and collaboration across the industry.\n\nIn addition to her work across clubs and ventures\, Nicole teaches at leading international institutions\, is a Director WCWFC In the Community CIC\, and mentors athletes and students\, championing equity\, leadership\, and sustainable growth across the women’s game.\n\n👉️ Kate Hawley - The Forestry Commission\n\nKate Hawley lives in Newcastle with two young children and her American husband\, Scott.\n\nShe has worked for the Forestry Commission for 16 years\, joining on the graduate leadership programme in 2010. She has worked across England\, Scotland and Wales in operational forestry\, policy\, project management and forestry research. She is now the Area Operations Manager for the Forestry Commission covering Yorkshire and North East England.\n\nOutside of forestry\, she spends time working in patient and public advocacy for health research\, sitting on numerous NIHR panels to assess patient input into funding applications and being part of Patient Advisory Groups in Cancer Research UK\, the British Heart Foundation\, NICE\, NHS England and Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nShe has recently been elected as a Governor to the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust and was delighted to be invited to meet the Royal Family alongside other non-executive directors in health research\n\n👉️ Sam Hanks - The Support Yard\n\nSamantha Hanks is the Founder and Director of The Support Yard CIC\, a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving mental health and wellbeing across the builders merchant industry. With a strong background in the sector and a deep understanding of the pressures faced by people working within it\, Samantha is passionate about creating practical\, real-world support that genuinely connects with people.\n\nHer work focuses on bridging the gap between traditional wellbeing initiatives and the realities of frontline working environments\, helping businesses move from awareness to meaningful action. Samantha is particularly focused on early intervention\, behaviour-led support\, and creating workplace cultures where conversations around mental health feel natural\, accessible\, and stigma-free.\n\nAlongside her work with The Support Yard\, Samantha is also involved in wider mental health and wellbeing partnerships\, bringing lived experience insight into service development and organisational decision-making. She is a strong advocate for ensuring that support systems are shaped around how people actually experience life and work\, rather than how support is assumed to be used.\n\nThrough collaboration\, honest conversations\, and practical engagement\, Samantha is working to help create a stronger\, healthier and more connected industry.\n\n👉️ Sonia Robinson - Southern Oak Ltd\n\nSonia Robinson is the Founder &amp\; MD of Southern Oak Ltd\, a national bespoke oak-framing company based in the South East of England.\nHer journey into the timber industry and becoming a business owner was far from conventional. At 44\, Sonia found herself facing a huge amount of personal and financial change. Her long-term relationship had come to an end\, her family was being split up\, and she had also been made redundant. With two children relying on her\, she suddenly had to think very differently about her future.\n\nFor the previous 14 years\, whilst working a 9–5 job as an Account Manager\, Sonia had also been doing a second role as “her indoors” for her ex-partner’s industrial roofing and cladding company\, running the back office and gaining first-hand experience of the construction industry and how a business operates.\n\nThen an opportunity presented itself.\n\nShe learned that an oak-framing company was about to go into administration\, potentially leaving a gap in the market across the South East. Sonia decided to back herself and go for it.\n\nWithin 24 hours of that conversation\, she had set up Southern Oak Ltd.\n\nShe didn't have years of experience as an entrepreneur\, nor did she have experience working with oak. What she did have was a natural entrepreneurial ability\, 14 years of experience\, an understanding of the industry\, an opportunity she believed in\, and the determination to back herself.\n\nFrom that decision\, Southern Oak has grown into an established specialist business delivering bespoke oak-framed garages\, porches\, outbuildings and architectural structures nationwide.\n\nNow\, Sonia is passionate about sharing the real story behind her journey and encouraging other women to recognise their own experience\, take opportunities when they arise and\, sometimes\, simply have the courage to realise that it is never too late to back themselves.\nHow to Register\n🎟️ To register please complete the booking form and email to Karen Sussex at ksussex@timberdevelopment.uk to book your place/s.\n\nThis event is intended as a dedicated forum for biological women working in\, or supporting\, the timber industry. In order to preserve the single-sex nature of the event and enable open discussion of issues affecting women in the sector\, attendance is restricted accordingly. \n\nEvent Terms &amp\; Conditions\n\n🏨Discounted Hotel Room Rate\nPlease call the Oulton Hall reservations team on - 0330 107 1599 and quote Women in Timber and the dates you would like to stay. A discount of 10% is available on the best available rate if staying for 1 night\, or 15% off for 2-night stays. You are required to prepay in full at time of booking\, and the booking is non-cancellable.\nSponsorship Opportunities\n🤝Partner with us to champion and celebrate women in timber. Sponsoring this event is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your brand’s visibility\, demonstrate your commitment to diversity and inclusion\, and contribute to the wellbeing of our industry through our support of TTBS. For sponsorship details\, please contact lqualters@timberdevelopment.uk\n\nA huge thank you to our sponsors so far - without your support\, these events simply would not be possible. We are truly grateful.\nEvent Sponsors\n[partners group="seminar2026" columns="6" partners show_name="false"]
LOCATION:Oulton Hall\, Leeds
URL:https://womenintimber.uk/event/570/
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