The First Women awards program was created by Real business 2005 in United Kingdom.
First Women was supported by the Confederation of British Industry. Henrietta Jowitt, Deputy Director-General, Commercial at the CBI gave the keynote speech at the 2016 First Woman Awards.[1] The First Women Young Achiever Award was celebrated by Emma Hagan, chief risk officer at Silicon Valley Bank, aged 24, and Amanda White, who headed up the HS3 rail project.[2] Jan Flawn CBE was the first Woman of business services who launched her business at the age of 50[3] after raising her children, uses her First Women platform to advocate for women across the country.
First Women has partnered with Keep a Girl in School Project[4] to create awareness and help towards promoting education for girls in Uganda and The Washroom Project[5] to raise funds that will support the education of at least 500 girls.