Menopause Action and Support Group Wins ‘Outstanding Support and Wellbeing Award’
We are absolutely delighted to celebrate one of our very own Connection Club members, Narinder Gaddu, who has been recognised with an Outstanding Support and Wellbeing Award, and what an achievement it is.
Narinder is one of four incredible women, alongside Insp Jo Matthews, Clare Dixon and Jane Yeates, who founded the Menopause Action and Support Group in 2025. The group came together after the four met during an external eight-week menopause support programme. Despite not knowing each other previously, they quickly found a shared understanding and a common purpose: to extend the support they had received to others.
Each member of the group brings their own personal experience of menopause and the daily challenges it can bring, and that diversity of lived experience has been one of their greatest strengths.
Since forming, the group has gone from strength to strength. Through the Forum and as part of the Women's Integrated Network, they have organised drop-in coffee mornings, delivered awareness sessions to Senior Leadership Teams and Supervisor groups, and offered support to both male and female colleagues. Their work is actively helping to create a more menopause-aware workplace for everyone.
What Narinder and her colleagues have built sits right at the heart of what we talk about here at The Connection Club. The Mid-Life Mountain Range framework recognises that Physical Wellbeing and Emotional Resilience don't exist in isolation, they're interwoven paths, and struggle in one affects all the others.
Menopause is one of the most significant and often most isolating challenges women face on that mountain. By refusing to stay quiet about it, by creating safe spaces for honest conversation and by reaching out to support colleagues across their organisation, Narinder and the group are doing exactly what the CC stands for: turning shared experience into shared strength, so no woman has to navigate midlife alone.
This is exactly the kind of connection, courage and community that The Connection Club is all about - Women coming together, supporting one another, and making a real difference.
Narinder, we are so proud of you. This award is so well deserved.
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