WOMEN’S networking organisation Win has secured £100,000 from the Government to engage North-East businesswomen in the arts.

Win’s Art For Art’s Sake project has secured financial backing as part of a learning for pleasure innovation spearheaded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

The project will offer the arts as a platform for women in business across the region to explore their own creativity, learn about themselves, enhance their skills and confidence to develop new networks, and reengage in learning.

Win board member Di Gates said: “Winning £100,000 to deliver this innovative project is a real achievement for Win, its members and the North-East, particularly having faced such stiff competition – the project emerged as one of the top 15 per cent across the country.

“Win prides itself on being a current, honest and ambitious network for female entrepreneurs and women in business.

This provides a platform to work with more than 400 women in the North- East and add even more value to members, both as participants in the project and through direct involvement in its development and delivery.”