Rights of Women’s research, in the first three months of the new legal aid rules, showed that 50% of women affected by violence were ineligible for family law legal aid because they did not have the required evidence of domestic violence. The impact this is having on women is devastating. One woman said, “I can’t more »
CONTINUE READINGThe UK Women’s Budget Group (WBG) have produced a gender equality toolkit for women’s groups called: “Women vs Local Cuts: Challenging gender equality impact assessments and local government budgets”. The toolkit is for women’s organisations, community groups and others who want to evaluate whether and how English local governments are taking gender equality into account more »
CONTINUE READINGCelebrating excellence in using nature to enhance and improve local communities Lemos&Crane and City Bridge Trust are pleased to announce the opening of the Growing Localities Awards 2013/14. A total of £2,500 prize money is being offered to projects which use nature to enhance and improve local communities and the lives of vulnerable or socially more »
CONTINUE READINGIt seems that not a day passes where stories of domestic violence, rape, abuse, and grooming do not hit our headlines. Last week was no exception. The BBC ran with the story of ‘Liz’, the 16-year old who was gang raped in Kenya, her unconscious body thrown into a latrine pit, breaking her back and more »
CONTINUE READINGWomen in Prison is an organisation offering advice and support for women affected by the criminal justice system. We now have two new projects, Housing and Domestic & Sexual Violence, that sit alongside our core work. Both projects are aimed at women in, or returning to, London. Through our Housing Project we offer dedicated housing more »
CONTINUE READINGPlease click here for WRC’s template response to the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) VAWG consultation. (NB. This response is an updated version of the one previously published on this site, incorporating additional survey responses.) You can read more about the consultation and WRC’s briefing on the issue here (under the ‘Consultations’ tab.) Please more »
CONTINUE READINGWe currently have five vacancies at WRC! Please follow the links below for more information on the roles and how to apply to join the Women’s Resource Centre team. Training and Partnership Facilitation Officer Training and Financial Sustainability Officer Business Development Officer Shared Head of Sustainability and Development Head of Policy Completed applications should be more »
CONTINUE READINGThe London Borough of Lambeth wishes to offer an opportunity for an experienced and suitably qualified organisation to deliver the provision of a specialist community based service for female offenders. To view the full advert and for further information please click here. The aims of the service are: To reduce reoffending amongst women To divert more »
CONTINUE READINGMOPAC are currently undertaking a consultation for the second mayoral strategy on violence against women and girls (2013-16); the consultation is now open and closes on 9 August 2013. Like the first strategy, the second will be an integrated VAWG strategy with prevention at its heart, but MOPAC’s aim this time is to focus on action more »
CONTINUE READINGAnnecka Marshall, PhD (University of Warwick) is writing a book entitled Black Sisterhood: Black Feminism, Womanism and Women’s Organizing. She will be conducting semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with members of Black women’s organizations, Black feminists and womanists between June and August 2013. Dr Marshall wants to investigate the importance of Black women’s independent more »
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