Petitioning Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron MP Speak out for your communities The Government has announced it will be inserting a clause into grant agreements with charities that states funding cannot be used on activities intended to influence parliament, government or political parties. The information Government receives from charities is essential to shaping more »
CONTINUE READINGWOMEN SPEAKS OUT NEEDS YOU FOR A LEADING NEWS DOCUMENTARY Are you, or someone you know having trouble getting legal aid? Have you been told you don’t make the criteria? We would love to hear from you – please get in touch with to take part in the women speak out project, and more »
CONTINUE READINGAre you a woman willing to tell your story through video, and make your voice heard? We are looking for women who have experienced inequality, unfairness or marginalisation to speak out as part of our film project at the Women’s Resource Centre (the national umbrella body for women’s charities). Our aim is to challenge stereotypes 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 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 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 »
CONTINUE READINGAlmost half (44%) of the UK population now believe that gender is not binary but can be expressed as a range of identities – according to a poll of 8,000 people. The survey, carried out by Survation (1) for the Fawcett Society for their 150th anniversary year, asked people their thoughts on whether gender identity more »
CONTINUE READINGYoung Women’s Trust (YWT) is a national charity which supports and represents young, disadvantaged women in England and Wales, aged 16-30 who are living on low or no pay. Through working and volunteering with YWT I have found that young women, are in most cases, worse off than young men. They are more likely to more »
CONTINUE READINGSelf-harm in Women’s Prisons: Is Collaborative Care and Self-Management the Future? 1st March and 2nd March 2016, The Mill, North Campus, Manchester M13 9PL Self-harm is a significant and increasing problem in prisons. Women prisoners, although only representing 6% of the total prison population, account for 50% of the self-harm events which take place in more »
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