Team

Friedel Fink - Founder & Managing Director

Friedel Fink is a Holistic Health Educator specialised in women’ s health and Relationship and Sex Educator in schools and the community. She founded Big Sis CIC in 2020, a UK based wellbeing platform developing girl empowerment initiatives supporting girls 8-12 and their immediate support networks.
Through her interdisciplinary background, rooted in the arts, education and interactive community projects, she is passionate in finding creative and accessible ways that inspire for a positive body image, emotional resilience and a growing self-esteem cross culturally.
Friedel advocates for menstrual empowerment projects worldwide, and is a facilitator for the Menstrual Education Workshop 'A Celebration for Girls'.

Clare Coyne - School Outreach & Volunteer Coordination

Clare has a background in social work, counselling and community radio and has spent many years working with young people in these fields. She has experience of volunteer management, providing pastoral care, as well as organisational skills, to enable a supportive working environment rooted in trust and openness.
A daily practitioner of yoga and meditation, and passionate about the outdoors, Clare is an advocate of movement, mindfulness and nature as interconnected ways of supporting ourselves. Wellness, communication and creativity form the ground springs of Clare’s approach to all areas of her life.
**Learn more:** **Immerse in Nature**

Hannah Thomas - School Outreach & Marketing

Hannah is founder of ‘The Creative Cottage’; a creative agency providing marketing, events and creative writing solutions for small and medium sized businesses. She has previous experience in events management, publishing and as a secondary school business teacher and has a BA in Arts and Cultural Management. Hannah is passionate about connecting people, creativity and social equality.
**Learn more:** The Creative Cottage

Victoria Dufour-Cox - Menstrual Cycle Awareness Educator

Victoria's work is rooted in her inquiry in her own awareness of her menstrual cycle and the positive effect this awareness has on how she interacts with life as well as her love for our natural environment.
Victoria is passionate about girls receiving support and knowledge allowing them an educated choice and an empowered start on their journey to adulthood. With this work, Victoria is stepping up as a mentor for her community.
She is also a facilitator for ‘A Celebration Day For Girls’ and women as well as a Forest School leader. Mother of one who loves the outdoors and dancing.
**Learn more:** **Nature and me**

Margarida Candido Lopes - Founding Director

Margarida works with community focused small businesses particularly, but not exclusively, LGBTQ+, community groups, body workers, sex positive practitioners and artists.
**Learn more:** **Margarida Help Me**

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Welcome to our community!

You are here because you care for girl’s wellbeing and empowerment!

We are dedicated to help girls and their parents, carers and role models to stay grounded and connected in the pre-puberty journey and help to navigate open conversations about menstrual cycles, emotional changes and all things growing up.

We are in for the long haul!

Please reach out if you ever have any questions.

with love and hope,

The Big Sis Team

**NOT FOR PROFIT**
All the money we make is being reinvested for the benefit of our main beneficiaries: girls between 8 and 12. As a CIC we are obliged by law to do so. You can actually check out our annual accounts at Companies House if you are curious.
**FREE STUFF**
We aim to create a mix of free services, e.g: our ‘Girl Mentoring Programme’ which is 100% free for schools and paid services, e.g: parents Webinars, Courses and consultancy sessions. We need paid services to finance the free ones.
**WE HONOUR OUR COLLABORATORS TIME AND SKILLS**
We measure carefully how long tasks take, add a markup to cover our costs and honour the time and skills of the partners involved, people who deliver webinars, create content, basically everyone who gives their time.There are also people who work voluntarily that we offer access to some of our services and knowledge.
**ATTENDEES**
Our prices also takes into consideration how many people attend the webinar and the time we put into preparation and delivery. A webinar in a small group is more expansive than with 20.
**WE USE A SLIDING SCALE**
The sliding scale is in place so you can decide how much you want to give. There is a minimum and a maximum contribution.
**INVISIBLE COSTS**
For those of you running companies, you know: there are always invisible costs: time spent on advertising, writing emails, paying rent, bills and insurance etc.
**SURVEYS**
We ask our customers if they think if our prices are fair and let these surveys inform our pricing, taking into consideration all of the above factors.

Big Sis CIC

Totnes,

Devon

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