About Us

Women’s Adventure Expo CIC

Women’s Adventure Expo CIC is a pioneering social enterprise celebrating, inspiring and empowering women in adventure. Through our events, online platform, partner-projects and growing international network, we promote the achievements of leading female explorers and adventurers, inspire others to take their first or next step, and connect people and organisations to facilitate adventure with purpose. Be that health and wellbeing, personal development, challenge and endeavour, cross-cultural relationship building, scientific research or conservation.

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WAExpo

WAExpo is our annual flagship event, an inspiring day packed with talks from leading female adventurers and explorers, plus workshops, discussions and outdoor industry exhibitors. It’s an unmissable date in any adventurer’s diary and leaves visitors inspired, buzzing and ready to jump into their next challenge. The latest WAExpo took place on Saturday 6th October 2018 at We The Curious in Bristol.

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MMiEEP

In 2017 Women’s Adventure Expo launched MMIEEP - Managing Menstruation in Extreme Environments Project, and welcomed our two University of Bristol interns Connie and Victoria to the team. They have been doing impressive work on research and content development. To follow the MMiEEP progress and for more information go to our MMiEEP page.

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Our Story

The Women’s Adventure Expo was founded in 2015 by sisters Tania John and Rebecca Hughes. They wanted to create a platform that celebrated and promoted the achievements of women in exploration and adventure while encouraging and facilitating women to realise their aspirations of adventure and travel.

By launching the first ever adventure and travel expo in the UK dedicated to women they found themselves in the company of many amazing people hungry to advance a new generation of female adventurers. The powerfully positive and inspiring atmosphere at the inaugural event confirmed to Tania and Rebecca the need to continue the journey and develop the Women’s Adventure Expo further.

In 2016, Tania and Rebecca established Women’s Adventure Expo as community interest company (CIC), following a social enterprise ethos and business model. As a registered organisation Women’s Adventure Expo can collaborate with, and incorporate, female-led projects around the globe, working in areas such as women’s cross-cultural adventure, female-led scientific research, expeditions for conservation and women’s community projects facilitated by adventure.

Our Story

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