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IWD 2025 campaign theme: #AccelerateAction

One of the best ways to forge gender equality is to understand what works and to do more of this, faster.

Accelerate Action is a worldwide call to acknowledge the strategies, resources and activity that positively impact women’s advancement, and to support and elevate their implementation.

Significant barriers to gender equality remain, yet with the right action and support, positive progress can be made for women everywhere.

The aim of the IWD 2025 #AccelerateAction campaign is to emphasizes the importance of taking swift and decisive steps to achieve gender equality. 

We are delighted to announce the host of the event will be Mark Smith of MAKE YOUR MARK UK. We also have a stellar panel of guests to answer a Q & A session as well as great line up of keynote speakers which include:

Lindsy James – Active Fusion

Lindsy James, Founder and Director of the children’s and young peoples’ charity Active Fusion has dedicated 25 years of her professional career inspiring young people to ‘be the best they can be’. She is passionate about improving the physical health, mental wellbeing and life chances of our current and future generations of children and young people, with her charity recently received the Kings Award for Voluntary Service. The highest award for the charitable sector.

She is the ultimate inspiring female role model, who proves that an ordinary person can achieve extraordinary feats when fuelled by passion and purpose. She defies many barriers, showing that age, gender, running a successful growing charity and being a parent should not define what you can achieve in life.

Lindsy represents the Great British Age Group Team in Duathlon and Triathlon with a number of World, European, British, National titles and a Guinness world record to her name.

Alicia Hewitt – Secure Power

Bio coming soon.

Q&A Panel – focusing on AccelerateAction 

To be confirmed.