Wowment News and Insights

Wowment Reaches 11,500 Conversations – A Milestone for Safe, Meaningful Connections Sep 03, 2025

We are proud to announce that Wowment has now recorded more than 11,500 conversations between users, many of whom are young people and their volunteer mentors. This growth has happened in just 8 month...

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Micro-Connections: How Young People Are Changing Mentoring Aug 19, 2025

For years, mentoring was often imagined as an hour-long, face-to-face chat over coffee. But working closely with hundreds of young people — particularly those in care or navigating big life transition...

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We Don’t Need Another App. We Need Trust. Jul 22, 2025

In children’s services, digital innovation is everywhere. New platforms, portals, and apps are released with the promise of transforming communication, safeguarding, and engagement.

But here’s the un...

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Innovate UK Shines a Spotlight on Wowment Jun 02, 2025

Innovate UK have released a film about Wowment and our journey to creating one of the most exciting safeguarding technologies on the market. We were proud then, and we remain proud now, to have been c...

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Wowment win Innovate UK's Inclusive Innovation Award Jun 07, 2023

Today saw the announcement of Innovate UK’s prestigious new Inclusive Innovation Award. One of the acclaimed recipients is former construction worker and founder of Wowment, Fran Boorman, who will rec...

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UK Sport launches International Leadership Mentoring with Wowment Jun 01, 2023

UK Sport has today launched a new International Leadership Mentoring Programme, bringing together ten experienced international sports leaders with ten future leaders who will receive mentoring suppor...

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Working people from across Cambridgeshire invited to help transform young lives. May 15, 2023

An award-winning mentoring programme is being launched in Cambridgeshire to help support young people who are leaving the care system. It is set to make waves and break down barriers by training local...

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Wowment helps businesses make a positive impact with everyday spend Mar 23, 2023

Wowment has become a verified social enterprise supplier on the Supply Change platform. Supply Change connects organisations looking for goods and services with pre-vetted social suppliers, helping th...

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Wowment to bring together corporate mentors and disadvantaged young people in Bristol Mar 06, 2023

Wowment is providing the technology behind an exciting new mentoring programme that aims to provide support for disadvantaged young people in Bristol.

 

Launched at the start of March 2023, the prog...

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Wowment's founder joins the board of Social Value UK Feb 15, 2023

Social Value UK is delighted to announce that Fran Boorman, Wowment's Founder, has recently joined our Board of Directors. The fresh perspective and experience Fran will bring to the board is somethin...

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99 Amazing women start finding Mentors on Wowment Sep 30, 2022

This week saw the launch of the Women In Football Mentoring Programme in partnership with Heineken. Over 2 days we trained and inducted 99 ladies to identify their mentoring needs and then find a suit...

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Wowment to support mentoring as part of the UEFA Women's EURO 2022 legacy Aug 17, 2022

As English football looks to reap the benefits of England Lionesses' glorious UEFA Women’s EURO 2022™ win, Women in Football, with the support of the tournament’s official sponsor Heineken®, have anno...

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Peter Jones Foundation announce new partnership with Wowment Aug 05, 2022

This week the charitable foundation established by Dragon's Den investor Peter Jones CBE, announced an exciting new partnership with Wowment to be launched in Autumn 2022.

Harnessing the Wowment ment...

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Wowment's founder featured in top 10 to watch Jul 05, 2022

The leading startup funding platform, SeedLegals.com, named Wowment's Founder, Fran Boorman, as the first on their list of female entrepreneurs to watch.

SeedLegals said they wanted to "celebrate tra...

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