The 5-9 Club
An evening business course Wales founders actually rate
Thinking about where your passion could take you? The 5‑9 Club is Welsh ICE’s space for anyone curious about their potential. That might mean starting a business, growing one, or finding a career you love.
We built it around real evenings and real schedules, so you can fit it in around work or family life. Because it’s shaped around people who are figuring things out alongside you, the pace stays practical rather than academic.
Who is this programme for?
This programme suits anyone in Wales who’s curious, whatever stage they’re at. You might not know your direction yet, and that’s fine. If you’ve got a spark of an idea, or simply want to explore your options in a supportive room, this is your starting point.
How does this evening business course work?
It runs for 8 weeks in the evening, fitting around your working day. Each week mixes practical exercises, expert input, and time with a group of like‑minded people working through the same questions as you.
What will this programme cover?
You’ll explore what genuinely interests you and test ideas in a low‑pressure environment. From there, you’ll build the confidence and clarity to take a real next step, whether that’s launching a business, growing one, or simply knowing what you want to do next.
Why it works
Confidence, not knowledge, is usually the real barrier, and that’s where the 5‑9 Club makes the biggest difference. Almost everyone who joins says they feel more confident about their business by the end of it. Many go on to launch something real once they’ve found their footing, backed by a community that keeps supporting them long after the course ends. So it’s proof that this evening business course Wales founders recommend delivers real results, not just confidence on paper.
Ready to find out what’s next?
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We’re rolling out new cohorts across Wales soon.
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Funding & partnerships
Some of our 5‑9 Club courses are funded by local councils, businesses and schools, helping us bring the programme to more areas across Wales. If you’re an organisation interested in running a course with us in your area, find out how to partner with us.
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
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
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!
