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Three females from publishing company Cyhoeddiadau Lemonêd delivering their pitch at a 5-9 Club pitch event.

The 5-9 Club

Wondering where your passion could take you?

The 5-9 Club is Welsh ICE’s space for anyone curious about exploring their potential, building confidence, and discovering what they could do next, whether that’s starting a business, growing an existing venture, or finding a career you love.

Our courses are designed to fit around your working day, with options in the evenings and during the day, giving you practical tools, hands-on learning, and a supportive community of like-minded people.

5-9 Club Pitch Night

Here’s what we offer:

5-9 Club Programme

A dynamic 8-week evening programme to help you uncover your potential, spark ideas, and explore possibilities, even if you’re not sure what direction you want to take yet. This is all about discovering what works for you, gaining clarity, and taking meaningful next steps.

Grow Course

An 8-week course (evening or day options) for those ready to push boundaries and take their business or career to the next level. From scaling your business to sharpening your leadership skills, each week brings expert insights, practical learning, and the chance to showcase your progress. Think of it as your launchpad for growth.

Start-Up Course

A fun, 4-week day course (2 days a week) for anyone thinking about starting their own business. No idea yet? No problem, we’ll help you explore options, discover your strengths, and start building the confidence to turn your passions into something real and rewarding.

Bootcamps

Our intensive, 4-week Business Start-Up Bootcamps are packed with practical guidance, from marketing and branding to sales and mindset. Perfect for anyone with an idea, big or small, ready to bring it to life with purpose and clarity.

Join the 5-9 Club to learn, connect, and take your next step in a safe, supportive, and inspiring environment. View our upcoming courses below!

Blaenau Gwent 5-9 Club

Blaenau Gwent

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Start Date: 25th March, 2026
Location: Gold Works, Blaenau Gwent Business Hub
Who can join?: Live, work or study in Blaenau Gwent
Aged 18 or Over

This project is funded by Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council.

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More Coming Soon!

Across Wales

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Fill out our interest form below and we’ll notify you when we release the information for new cohorts!

Interest Form

Funding

Some of the above projects are funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK, investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus

Hear from past cohorts

Zoë Gable

It was exciting to be in a room filled with people like me, all of us with a passion to be entrepreneurs and a desire to help each other and the world.

I hope I can look back in a few years and come across some of these businesses that I was there to witness at the very beginning

Tracy Kinsella-Evans

I completed the Welsh ICE 5-9 Club (an 8-week after-hours, bit-sized, business course). Fantastic course content, inspirational, engaging, and relatable speakers, who have practical experience to draw from, as business owners themselves.

Welsh ICE is a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive community and everyone associated with the organisation wants to do all they can to help you succeed.

Met wonderful, like-minded people on the course, all with different business ideas and at various stages of their journey.

I would highly recommend this course to anyone with a business idea or those at the initial stages of their business journey, as it will give you the fundamentals and transferable knowledge and tools to help build a successful business.

LJ Jan

I completed the 5 to 9 Club run by Welsh Ice. It was so much more than I expected. It really helped me clarify so many things: who my client is, how to communicate with them, all the business-related ‘back of house’ things. I feel like this course really helped for all the scattered things to come together. I feel I know what I need to do now. It also helped me overcome some blocks that were preventing me from moving forward with some things, especially in relations to marketing. The whole programme is very comprehensive.

The whole community is brilliant. Everyone’s really dedicated, knowledgeable and are genuinely rooting for you. Another thing I really loved was that it isn’t the ‘traditional’ suited, booted and uptight kind of people but very down-to-earth, easy going and approachable. I felt like I fit right in.

Cathy Groves

The 5-9 club is an absolutely fantastic course for people starting a new business. Each of the 8 weeks different speakers come in to talk about different topic areas. They provide exactly what you need to know and how to go about it – everything was so relevant and useful. You get the recording and slides each week, so you can go back through it at a later date. The speakers and Welsh ICE staff are fab, as were the location and environment.

I cannot recommend this highly enough. I was a bit gutted as I couldn’t get to do my pitch, and attend the night out at the end due to being on holidays, so may attend again!