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The Female Pharmacy Leaders Network (FPLN) has registered as a community interest company (CIC). Membership remains free, and all income generated by the organisation will be directed exclusively toward its community purpose, it said.

Alongside the CIC registration, FPLN has appointed Anjna Sharma as interim chief operating officer. Anjna has experience in operations, partnerships, and commercial development, and joins the founding team of Reena Barai and Komal George to support the network’s next phase of growth.

Her appointment reflects the organisation’s commitment to building the operational capacity needed to scale its impact across the UK pharmacy profession, it said.

Reena Barai, co-founder commented:  "We started this because we felt the gap ourselves, and we knew we weren't alone. Five years on, we have a community of almost 1,000 women who show up for each other across every sector of pharmacy. Becoming a CIC is how we make sure that community can keep growing and keep mattering for the long term."

Komal George, co-founder added: "The pharmacy profession is majority female. Its leadership is not. That gap does not close by itself, it closes because organisations like ours exist, and because the women in our community refuse to accept it as inevitable. The CIC structure gives us the foundation to do this work at scale, with the credibility and sustainability the mission deserves."