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About us

Young Women's Trust champions young women aged 18 to 30 on low or no pay.

We're here to create a more equal world of work and raise young women's incomes. We tackle sexism and misogyny, with and for anyone who has experienced this. Find out about the free services we offer and about our research and campaigns on our website.

We want to hear about your experiences of insecure work for our latest research  

We are looking for young women and people with marginalised gender identities aged 18 to 30 with experience of insecure work in England or Wales in the past five years. 

When we talk about insecure work, we mean any of the following:

·        Non-permanent work -  such as agency, seasonal or fixed-term jobs,
·        Where you are underemployed (working less than 16 hours per week but want to work more)
·        Where you have unpredictable pay and hours,
·        Zero-hour contracts (no specified minimum hours per week) and,
·        Low-paid self-employed work.

Our research shows that over a third of young women are worried about job security, including how long their job will last for. We want to find out more. Through this research, we want to understand young women's experiences of insecure work, the reasons for taking it on and what pathways out of insecure work look like. 

All research activities will be led or facilitated by our peer researchers. Our peer researchers are all young women and non binary people who have experience of the issues we tackle and have been trained to carry out research with other young people with similar experiences.

We will use the findings from this research to work together with policymakers and employers to develop solutions to the barriers young women face and support young women to advocate for themselves.

How to take part

There are a variety of ways to take part in our research, these include;

1. In-person focus groups 
2. Online interviews,
3. Online discussion forums and,
4. WhatsApp voice notes.

If you're interested, please complete this form to register your interest. You will then be sent an e-mail with all of the information you need to take part. The form will also ask you for some information about yourself to help us understand whose voices are being heard in our research and who we need to work harder to reach. Completing these demographic questions is voluntary. If you don't want to answer a question you can skip it and it will not affect your participation in the research.

We will send a voucher to everyone who takes part in the research to thank you for your time.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at researchcentre@youngwomenstrust.org

Thank you for taking the time to complete this information. This will help us to know who we're reaching and who we need to work harder to hear from.

On the next page you can enter your preferred contact details so that we can contact you with more information about how to take part.

Young Women's Trust reserve the right to request further proof from and/or exclude anyone from the research that we have reason to believe does not meet the criteria outlined above.

Please complete the following details accurately so that we can send you more information about how to take part in the research. We will also use these details to send you your voucher once you have taken part.

Please note that some of the activities have limited spaces. If we are unable to accommodate your first choice, we will offer an alternative way to participate.

You will receive a £40 voucher for attending an in person focus group and a £10 voucher for taking part in any of the other activities. For those attending focus groups in person we can also cover reasonable travel expenses up to £15 and childcare costs if required.

Unfortunately you are not eligible to take part in this research.

You can find out more information about Young Women's Trust and who we support on our website.

We would be very grateful if you could share this opportunity with anyone you know who might be eligible and interested in participating.

Thanks for your time.