Event title: Young People Speak Out Against FGM! Conference Date & time: 19th May 2016 10am to 5pm Organiser: FORWARD Website: www.forwarduk.org.uk Description: Are you a young person interested in activism? Do you believe that female genital mutilation (FGM) is wrong? Would you like to learn more and take action in your community to end more »
CONTINUE READINGEvent title: Responding to FGM in Development Programmes and Projects – Cardiff Date & time: Thursday 26th May 2016, 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM Organiser: FORWARD Website: www.forwarduk.org.uk Description: A free training course for development professionals, academics and students. The training will: Increase understanding of the social norms and cultural context of FGM in Africa more »
CONTINUE READINGSupport services for women are under threat from an unprecedented level of public spending cuts, with many organisations losing staff, reducing services or closing altogether. Women’s Resource Centre needs your help to gather evidence on how far the cuts have destabilised the women’s voluntary and community sector. You can help by taking 15 minutes to more »
CONTINUE READINGWelsh Women’s Aid invites you to attend a seminar to explore good practice in supporting Transgender survivors of domestic abuse in Wales. According to a study in 2010, whilst 80% of trans respondents had experienced some form of abusive behaviour from a partner or ex- partner, 24% told no one about the abuse and even more »
CONTINUE READINGTampon Tax Fund – Guide for Applicants The Government announced at Autumn Statement 2015 that it will operate a new £15 million annual fund to support women’s charities. This is equivalent to the VAT raised on sanitary products each year. The fund will run over the course of this Parliament, or until the UK can more »
CONTINUE READINGJob title: Trustee Closing Date: 12 noon Monday 21st March 2016 Organisation: Solace Women’s Aid Website: http://solacewomensaid.org/ Description: Solace Women’s Aid is a London based charity that has been working for 40 years with women and children affected by domestic and sexual violence. We work with over 8,500 survivors of violence each year and operate more »
CONTINUE READINGOn the 6th February 2016, the Government announced that organisations receiving government grants will be banned from using these funds to influence government and Parliament, including influencing on behalf of their beneficiaries. All grant agreements, from May 2016, would have the following clause: “The following costs are not Eligible Expenditure: Payments that support activity intended more »
CONTINUE READINGThe Women Speak Out project runs from the Women’s Resource Centre, and we are looking for women who have experienced inequality, discrimination or marginalisation to be filmed for our series of mini documentaries (a few mins in length), aimed at giving disadvantaged women a voice. We want to empower women to tell their stories, to more »
CONTINUE READINGJob title: HONORARY COUNSELLORS (Female Applicants Only) Closing Date:12pm on Friday 18th March 2016 Organisation: Women and Girls Network Website: http://www.wgn.org.uk/join-us/volunteering Description: Women and Girls Network (WGN) is a specialist therapeutic service leading in developing and delivering innovative and effective counselling services for women and girls who have experienced all forms of gendered violence. more »
CONTINUE READINGOver two thirds of people (67%) support equality for women and men. 150 years after Millicent Fawcett first delivered the petition for women’s suffrage to parliament, the biggest ever poll of its kind, conducted by Survation, has shown that there is widespread support for feminist values in the UK (1). However it seems we are more »
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