Welcome to The Welding Mentor CIC
The Welding Mentor CIC is a community interest company with a focus on helping black women learn new skills that foster creativity, self-expression.
Powerful skills shouldn't have limitations, especially not by gender and ethnicity, but yet less than 10% of welders in the UK are black and less than 4% are women!
The Welding Mentor CIC aims to change that.
We want to make welding more accessible and encourage more women to join the industry.
But why would I want to learn how to weld?
I get it, welding has always been painted as a "manly" job and the expression "male, pale and stale" comes to mind.
But metal work isn't just for men. We work with women who want to learn welding for a variety of reasons:
- To create new and interesting pieces of artwork
- To create frames for costumes for carnival/dance or theatre
- To create unique ornaments
- To create bespoke furniture
- To create jewellery
Welding is, to put it simply "sticking metal together" so the possibilities of what you can make are endless!
We don't just teach welding. We teach you the skills you need to build a thriving business out of welding
Rhiannon-Amber Leavett. CEO & Business Development Manager
Meet Ramel Bailey
Ramel is the main founder of The Welding Mentor CIC
He has worked in welding for over 13 years now and he's a proud member of the Leeds West Indian community.
Ramel has spent the last three years working closely with Leeds West Indian Carnival founder, Sir Arthur France and his team, helping create costume frames for Leeds West Indian carnival.
This has meant Ramel has worked with a lot of costume designers and has met a lot of women who have asked if he will teach them how to weld so they can offer a full costume creation service.
Meet Rhiannon-Amber
Rhiannon-Amber is the second founder and CEO of The Welding Mentor CIC She is an established business consultant under the brand Equestrian Business Specialist LTD and multi-time entrepreneur and CEO of 5 companies, including The Welding Mentor CIC.
Rhiannon-Amber looks after the admin side of The Welding Mentor as well as the accounts and marketing, she also offers courses in business manaegemt and marketing to help our students turn their new skills into a thriving business.
Rhiannon-Amber was the brains behind the idea of this project and has helped bring it to life.
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The Equestrian Business Specialist LTD
Company number: 15691211
Registered office address:
1 Cambridge Court, Harrowdene Road, Wembley, England, HA0 2JW
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