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Blaenau Gwent 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.

Our dynamic 8-week programme is here to help you uncover your potential, boost your confidence, and spark ideas that might grow into a business or a career you’ll love! 💡

No idea yet? That’s absolutely fine — we’ll guide you in exploring possibilities, and if self-employment doesn’t feel like the right fit, that’s completely okay too. This is about discovering what works for you. 🙌

Whether you’re brimming with dreams or just starting to explore your options, this programme gives you the space to learn, connect, and take meaningful next steps with clarity and purpose!

Here’s what the course will cover:

  • Idea Generation 💡
  • Branding & Marketing 📲
  • Social Media & Web Development 💻
  • Sales & Communication 📈
  • Funding & Legal 💰
  • Getting Organised & Imposter Syndrome 🗃
  • Business Model Canvas 💼
  • Pitching your Business 🎤
5-9 Club Pitch Night

Join the Blaenau Gwent 5-9 Club to learn, connect, and take your next step in a safe, supportive, and inspiring environment. Sign up below!
Take a look at how HIT Education have benefited from Welsh ICE support 👇

HIT Education

HIT Education Ltd is a bespoke educational company providing tailored learning programmes for students of all ages.

Since joining Welsh ICE, they have:

  • Delivered bespoke learning solutions – designing and delivering personalised educational programmes tailored to each learner’s needs, abilities, and goals.
  • Shared specialist expertise – supporting learners across various qualifications, including Agored Cymru, with a focus on quality, compliance, and learner-centred outcomes.
  • Demonstrated proven impact – helping students achieve strong academic results, increased confidence, and valuable life skills, supporting positive next steps in education, training, and employment.
HIT Education

Blaenau Gwent 5-9 Club

Blaenau Gwent

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

This project is funded by Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council.

Sign Up Here!

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 Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council and Goldworks – as well as 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!Take a look at how HIT Education have benefited from Welsh ICE support 👇