The 2025 Lunch
The 2025 Women of Achievement Lunch in Scotland raised £12,000 for our chosen charity Smart Works. THanks for matched funding through The big Give, this was doubled to a total of £24,000.
We are incredibly grateful to our sponsors - Trinity Bridge, Odgers and Lyon & turnbull - for their generous support, as well as to our advertisers and all those who attended. Their contributions made the event such a success.
Dame Prue Leith, our 2025 speaker
We were delighted to welcome restauranteur, chef, writer and TV personality Dame Prue Leith as our 2025 guest speaker.
Widely respected for her work championing good food, education and sustainability, Prue regaled guests with tales of her life, from hilarious accounts of winging it as a young chef, to her time judging Bake Off. What a life!
Who we are
The Women of Achievement Lunch in Scotland
The Women of Achievement Lunch began in London in 2007, to celebrate the achievements and contributions made by women with Scottish connections and to raise funds for Scottish charities.
Its success led to the setting up of a separate lunch in Edinburgh in 2018 and each lunch has raised in the region of £20,000. As well as helping to support Scottish charities, the lunch also aims to build relationships and connections among Scottish women.
Smart Works Scotland
The charity we supported in 2025
Smart Works Scotland supports unemployed women with the coaching, clothing and confidence they need to secure work and transform their futures. Over the past decade, the charity has supported 35,000 women into secure employment.
If you would like to make a donation to this brilliant charity, you can do so by clicking the link here.
Buy a lunch ticket
The 2026 Women of Achievement in Scotland Lunch will be held in at the Merchant's Hall, Edinburgh in November. We will update with more details nearer the time. It is an invitation only event.
Our 2026 Charity
We are proud to be supporting the Scottish Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence as our 2026 charity.
The Centre brings together leading researchers from across Scotland to accelerate the development of new treatments, with a clear focus on improving outcomes for patients both now and in the future.
Through collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to advancing clinical trials, their work represents a meaningful step forward in an area where it is urgently needed.
Past Speakers
Since we launched in 2018 we have enjoyed some excellent speakers:
2025 - Prue Leith OBE
2024 - Kirsty Wark and Kate Humble
2023 - Cressida Cowell MBE, Celia Joicey, Merryn Somerset Webb
2019 - Emma Bridgewater CBE, Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links
2018 - Clare Balding OBE, Rachael Hamilton MSP, Lady Kinclaven
The Committee
Sophy Campbell, Chair
Sabby Bucher
Alexandra Borthwick
Kirsty Cornell
Flora Harvey
Rosamund de la Hay
Charlotte Heald
Aminta Hunt
Sarah Montgomery
Hettie Smyly
Victoria Tweedie
The 2025 lunch
Our sponsors
We are grateful for the generous support of our sponsors, who have helped to make this event possible.