Creative Women's Network - in partnership with Derbyshire Makes

You're invited to join us for our monthly gathering of Creative Women in business. Whether you're an artist, writer, creative practitioner, or simply someone who appreciates creativity, this network is for you!

Rest, resilience and permission to pause

Delivered in partnership with Derbyshire Makes, this Women Who Make Creative Network event brings creative women together to explore radical rest as a collective, political and caring practice.

Hosted at AMFREC, a female-led, up-cycled furniture studio and events space run by Ann Turner, set alongside woodland, the event offers a grounded, welcoming environment to slow down and reflect.

Guest speaker Kate Oliver, founder of Radical Rest, will share insights from her research and practice responding to widespread burnout across the cultural sector. Together, we’ll explore why rest has become so difficult for creative women, how exhaustion shows up in our bodies and work, and what genuinely supports resilience, beyond surface-level “wellness”.

Aligned with Women Who Make themes of self-empowerment, care, resilience and collective action, this gathering creates space for honest conversation, shared experience and permission to pause, recognising rest not as a luxury, but as essential to sustainable creative lives.

We welcome artists and creative practitioners but we also want to create space for women who use creativity in their role in different sectors - so whether you're a nutritionist with a creative mindset, accountant who supports creative businesses, community practitioner championing creativity - this network is for you!

Directions

Amber Mill Furniture Rural Enterprise Centre (AMFREC) has restored a classic mill housing BeSeated’s studio at Toadhole Furnace, Oakerthorpe. This historic mill is located in Derbyshire only 10 minutes from M1’s J28, just outside Alfreton.

Amber Mill Furniture Rural Enterprise Centre, Oakerthorpe, Alfreton, DE55 7LL. Parking on site or at the top of the road at the Amber Hotel.