Bored of menopause doom scrolling? Want to connect with like-minded sisters ‘of a certain (r)age?’
Join the club.
Crone Club
Are you tired of being made to feel fearful about menopause or getting older as a woman?
Want to have fun helping change the narrative?
Join the club! 👇🏽
Crone Club is a global movement that aims to ‘reclaim crone’ and female ageing as a badge of honour and support each other through menopause and beyond. We want to make menopause and getting older as a woman, a club women feel excited to join.
Our founder, Justine Gaubert (Crone Juzza) started it as a Facebook Group of a few peri-menopausal mates from Sheffield UK in 2022, which now has over 600 Facebook members from Manchester to Brighton to Darwin in Australia and North Carolina in the USA.
It’s a grassroots movement and we’ve grown organically, running online talks for older women to share their stories, launching our e-magazine ‘Tits to the Wind’ in 2023 on Substack (now over 1000 subscribers), in addition to some IN REAL LIFE bat-shit crazy events such as our recent afternoon disco ‘CroneLines’ and the Crone Human Library.
Our founder, Crone Juzza, has also started monthly in person meet ups for crones and crones in training in and around Sheffield and South Yorkshire in the UK.
Check out Crone Club Sheffield here.
What is the aim of Crone Club?
Our aim is to create a kind sisterhood of kick-ass ‘women of a certain age’ to support each other through midlife, menopause and beyond. Above all, we’re about having fun subverting the toxic narrative of menopause and female ageing and being a pocket of relief and a safe space away from the toxicity of the world right now.
What happens in Crone Club?
…stays in Crone Club, obvs. 😳
What we can tell you is we’ve just launched our online membership and a Sheffield UK membership. Sheffield members also get all the online benefits, PLUS the additional option to meet monthly in real life for fun and mischief.
Can you help us keep this going? Become a paid up, carrying card member.
After three years of working on this for free, our founder, Crone Juzza, needs to earn a living wage. She’s autistic with ADHD and number dyslexia which makes earning a living wage a tough call. She lives on her own in Loxley, Sheffield, with her scruffy terrier, Stan. In 2025, Juzza was accepted onto The School for Social Entrepreneurs Trading for Good programme to help her focus on generating a modest survival income for herself, and make the club financially sustainable so that we can do more activities and support more women.
As a result, we’re proud to launch the first iteration of our Crone Club Membership programme, which makes it easier for people to join and streamlines the ‘offer’ so you aren’t on multiple mailing lists!
We’re excited about it, we hope you are too!
Find your tribe…
Connect with like-minded women of a certain age - locally and all over the globe!
Connect online…
Facebook Group
Tits to the Wind e-magazine
Insta
And in person!…
Get inspiration and Training for Ageing.
What membership gets you…
Online events and talks by older women.
First dib tickets to bat-shit crazy events such as CroneLines and The Crone Human Library.
For just an extra £3 a month, Sheffield membership also gets you…
All this PLUS face to face meet ups.
Why become a paid up Crone Club member?
#1 You are supporting the crone movement and donating to the sisterhood. Without paying members, Crone Club and the events we run could not exist.
By becoming a paid up card carrying crone, you will be supporting the #ReclaimingCrone movement and chipping in to help keep Crone Juzza alive (this is her full time job and she needs to start earning a living wage too!) and to help her keep all the Crone Club activities going.
#2. By becoming a Crone Club paid member, you also get all this… 👇🏽
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A Year's subscription to our monthly e-mgazine Tits to the Wind!
Feel better about getting older and menopause. Laugh until wee comes out. Feel ‘seen’ and experience the joy of a sisterhood connection, as we explore the high and low adventures of midlife through multiple lenses. Get ideas for an inspiring and healthy ‘third act’. By becoming a paid member, you get a monthly Tits to the Wind automatically into your inbox, without having to mess about with a separate subscription on Substack.
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'Gone croning' bi monthly email. What's on in Sheffield?
Do you have a project or event you want to share with the Crone Club community? We are keen to help promote our member’s creative projects and crone-led businesses. Juzza will also pull together a what’s on guide for crones in Sheffield that our members have recommended in the Facebook group, plus other bat-shit crazy activities that any self respecting crone might want to have a go at! What’s more, you’ll also have some friendly faces to go with!
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Monthly(ish) in person meet ups.
Looking for an ‘excuse’ to take some time out from the mayhem that’s just for you? Time where you can hang out with a bunch of like-minded sisters where you don’t have to ‘explain’ yourself and just be YOU? Want to have a laugh, or be inspired, or meet new friends, or connect with old (old) ones? Want to be the first to hear about opportunities to connect and collaborate? A safe space and a kind but firm nudge to try new things? Life is short. All you need is love and with a crone sisterhood behind you, you can give anything a go!
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Priority booking and chance to take part in Crone Club events
As a paid member you will be the first to be invited to innovative Crone Club events such as the CroneLines afternoon disco and spoken word event (which sold out) and The Crone Human Library. Most events have special reduced prices for paid members.
PLUS you will be connected to a global community of Crones across the UK and the world through our Crone Club Private Members Facebook Group. Crone Juzza has been running the Facebook Group for over three years now where members flood social media streams with positive content about female ageing and healthier menopause stories. The group now has over 600 members with crones from Brighton, UK, to Darwin in Australia, New Jersey and many other states across the U.S. In the group we also carry out ‘Crone Assignments’ to explore some of the challenges of getting older through alternative, creative lenses.
Make it stand out
What sort of stuff do we do in the meet ups?
FAQs about Crone Club Sheffield
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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The short answer is yes! Our group is for women in midlife and beyond who are going through menopause and want to support each other through this life transition. As a peer-to-peer group, it’s for those who have a shared experience of being made to feel fearful about menopause and getting older as woman.
The group is for those who aspire to identify as a ‘crone’ and pledge to live by the crone qualities! These include: KINDNESS and support of another crone sister, and respect that people in the group may have different opinions and experiences to you. ANY COMMENT that is hostile towards trans people will be deleted and the member will be warned. Repeat offenders will be excluded from the group without recourse.
Similarly, we ask members to also respect women who may hold different views re biological gender identity. Any bullying or discussion on this topic will be deleted as THIS IS A KIND AND SUPPORTIVE SPACE FOR ALL WOMEN to celebrate what we have in common, not what divides us. There are other spaces to discuss gender identity politics but Crone Club is not it.
How to apply
Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sounds like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest.
FULL MEMBER
(£6 monthly donation or £50 a year).
x2 Tits to the Wind newsletters a month - one exclusive content for paid members.
Monthly online meet up or online talk with like-minded women (and If you can get to Sheffield, you can also join us for monthly walks, swims, crone visits and mischief!).
Invite to the Annual Big Crone Disco meet up. 💃🏾
Priority booking to Crone Club adventures.
Free access to Crone Club Private Members Facebook group.
Fuzzy feeling for keeping Crone Club going!
CRONE START UP/BUSINESS/CHARITY
(£25 a month).
Starting a business in midlife and need a bit of support getting it off the ground? Or maybe you’re already running your own business and just need a bit of accountability and sisterhood support? Want to access the Marketing and Branding Advice and coaching from an award-winning marketing professional?
Get all the other Crone Club benefits PLUS:
Monthly Accountability online meet up with like-minded women to set monthly goals, hold each other to account, and cheer each other on! Facilitated by Crone Club and Marketing Professional Justine Gaubert.
One to One Marketing Coaching and Mentoring sessions with Justine (x 3 over the year).
Free access to Justine’s Academy of Dangerous Dreamers Resources (worth 3k!)
“It’s a great thing you are doing for women where their existence and identities are very often socially defined in limiting ways. Who are we when the work is over?”
Hannah Butler, Sheffield
“Thank you for the life-affirming content and the extraordinary community you have built!”
— Joanne, Sheffield
“I’m embracing 50 in a way I wouldn’t have with the crone inspiration! Fookin ace!”
— Ellie, Darwin, Australia
“It gave me hope that there is another way. That all the work I'm doing in my 30s to know myself and create a life that feels more aligned and joyous is worth it in the long run...”
— Laura, a ‘reader’ at our Crone Human Library event
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Sign up now to our monthly e-magazine of menopausal mischief - straight to your inbox! Open to all.
Monthly long read to make you smile and reflect on your ‘third act’.
Opportunities for creative collaborations and celebrating crone businesses and projects.
Training for Ageing - links to useful resources and older women who can help.
Paid subscribers also get:
> Invite to monthly online meet up including ‘Crone Talks’ - holding space for an older woman to share her story.
> Money off Crone Club merch.
“Bursting with love and life's adventures.” Maz, Sheffield
"A truly thought-provoking and nuanced piece about the importance of Age Positivity. What can we do to capitalise on this moment of ageing radicals?" Allie
"I wish I could like this article 1000 times!" Jo
“This piece literally blew me away." Diane, Sheffield
"Thank you for sharing your gift of being able to express what many are struggling to come to terms with and ways of dealing with the pain." Julie, Sheffield
"Inspiring and poignant." Paul Ward, Sheffield
“Not one word about being resilient and strong, but focussing on the important, beautiful things and taking pleasure from them at a difficult time." Jo, Sheffield
"Thank you for this. I am at the start of my own journey with my dad, and these words have really helped me." @ShedStudio52
"Every sentence resonated. Useful, meaningful and beautiful. Thank you." Bernadette
"I'm shouting YES! YES! YES! I'm a 64 year old hag who falls in between." @the_delighrful_MrsP
"This is such an awesome piece about representation, privilege, and finding a way to move forward together." @lexabmann
Other ways to join our club👇🏽
Join our Private Facebook Group
(free, women only from across the world)
Flood your social media feed with joyful, inspiring content about older women and share training for ageing content and resources with other sisters.
Carry out monthly Crone Assignments to help you see the world with a crones eye view.
Connect and collaborate with a network of kick ass women of all ages and considerately cheer each other on.
Join Crone Club SHEFFIELD
Can you make it to Sheffield UK once a month to meet up with a bonkers bunch of menopausal and post menopausal mischief-makers? To connect, collaborate and cause trouble?
Want an excuse to meet up with your best pals or make new ones?
Need a kick up the arse to go for ‘that’ swim, that bike ride, that walk, or just laugh in a beer garden and cheer each other on?
What is Crone Club?
Ferocity. Freedom. Sisterhood.
Crone Club is a grassroots group of menopausal mischief makers on a mission to find the positives about menopause and getting older.
We want to bring together women of all ages (and our allies), to disrupt the toxic narrative and stereotypes of female ageing and menopause so we can all feel less afraid about getting older. Because let’s face it, life’s hard enough!
We started out as a Private Facebook group of menopausal pals sharing positive content and ‘considerately cheering each other on’. Our Facebook group has now grown to over 400 members from all over the world, sharing positive content that celebrates older women and the joy that can come in our ‘third act’, along with tips from older women who are ‘living their best crone life!’
Last year Justine launched a new e-magazine ‘Tits to the Wind!’ to share some of the themes and content from our Private Facebook group with the world.
We also occasionally give birth to bat-shit crazy events such as our Crone Human Library™️, Crone Crowning Ceremonies and Crone Camp Retreats; and an online shop with gifts for the emergent feminist crone in your life.
Find out about how Crone Club came out and a short history of the word 'Crone'. Founder Justine Gaubert talking at Creative Mornings Sheffield.
From the blog
Crone Human Library, Festival of the Mind
Find out about our Crone Human Library that we ran with the University of Sheffield as part of the Festival of the Mind. What is a Crone Human Library? How does a Crone Spoken Library work? Who were our Crone Human library books and readers? And what did they think?
From the shop
Exclusive Crone Club merch available only to Paid Subscribers of Tits to the Wind or members of Crone Club Sheffield.
The Most Expensive Tea Towel You Will NEVER need.
“Do your own fkin dishes” Crone Club tea towel. Limited edition artwork by Crone Lyn Hodnett and Justine Gaubert
Join Crone Club on Instagram @crone_club_reclaiming_crone
