WRC partners with NSPCC, Children England to support Safe Network
The Women's Resource Centre has partnered with the
NSPCC and
Children England to provide support and advice to its
Safe Network programme, which works to assist the third sector in having effective child protection and safety measures in place.
The WRC will provide advice on promoting the greater involvement of the women's voluntary sector in safeguarding activities at local and national levels across the WRC's network of organisations and those who work with women and girls.
Click
here to learn more about Safe Network.
Psychotherapy Group for Partners of Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Shally Gadhoke has worked in the field of therapy for survivors of sexual abuse for over 15 years, including working at the Rape Crisis Centre in London for over 5 years. Her new group for partners of survivors of child sexual abuse runs every Wednesday from 5.15pm - 6.45pm in Hammersmith (
Cost: £25).
Shally also runs groups for survivors of sexual abuse, offers training, workshops and one-to-one work for adults and young people, including in the areas of
menstruation, self harm and domestic violence/abuse. For more information, please contact Shally on 07545 149 503.
Petition to reunite mothers and children
The Mothers' campaign of the All African Women's Group is gathering signatures for their petition which asks for people granted asylum in the UK to be given the right to be reunited with their children.
See the online petition.
"All of our members are separated from our children. We had to leave them behind when we fled to this country. We suffer daily the grief and guilt of being separated from them. Many of us are still fighting our asylum cases but even those of us who won are still struggling for the right to bring our children here. We hope that this campaign which raises the profile of women in our situation will help us and the many other women who are suffering in the same way."
Research on gender violence and rights
Researchers from the University of Brighton are conducting research to identify and describe the different viewpoints held amongst practitioners, academics and involved lay people about the issues at stake in the adoption of human rights discourse and practice in the field of gender violence/IPV.
Read more...
Office space to let to women's organisations
Tindlemanor is a central London serviced women’s building providing
affordable, safe, secure and sustainable office space for women’s
groups and has office space available to let. An entire floor has
become available in the building and we are looking to offer a variety
of office accommodation for women’s organisations.
We
are located within a two-minute walk of Old Street station, providing an excellent location to connect to services in the
City of London and the West End. Liverpool Street, Moorgate and
Barbican stations are all within walking distance.
The
office accommodation offers 75m
2 (1010ft2) of net office space
comprising four contained offices which range from 13.3m
2 to 32.5m
2 and
is available under licence in the first instance.
Amenities
include a passenger lift, good natural light, kitchenette, toilet
facilities and access to in house additional rentable meeting rooms. Charge: Upon Application.
If
you are interested in the premises and want to find out more
information please contact Bridget Stark at
tindlemanor@cooptel.net to
submit an expression of interest.
Rattle & Roll - exploring women's lives through theatre
Set against the back drop of regeneration and recession,
Rattle & Roll is a story about chaos, the order behind it, and the
strengths of those women trying to survive it.
Rattle
& Roll is a brand new professional piece of poignant and funny
theatre from
Open Clasp Theatre Company, informed by women and young
women from their experiences of sex work, addiction, homelessness and
adoption. The play will shine a light on how these issues are
experienced by women and young women in our region and provide your
audience with insight into their take on the services currently
provided.
Rattle & Roll will tour the North East of England in
February and March 2010 and you can book the play for your centre,
service users or staff. Performances can also be followed by a
post-show workshop relevant to your particular audience through which
they can further explore the issues in the play. To book this
eye-opening play please contact Roma on 0191 2301698 or at
roma@openclasp.plus.com.
Have you experienced discrimination?
Research project is looking for people who have experienced discriminationMiddlesex
University is looking for people in UK to interview who have
experienced discrimination. This is part of an EU-funded project
GENDERACE which is being carried out in 6 European countries. The aim
is to assess how the discrimination was experienced and to what extent
support or other resources were available. We are particularly
interested in finding out whether those who might suffer discrimination
for more than one reason including race and/or gender (e.g.
race&gender; race&sexual orientation; gender&religion),
experience particular problems or whether changes to the law are
needed.
We can arrange the interview at a place and date that is
convenient to the interviewee or else by telephone. Due to ethical
concerns we can’t pay you but we can reimburse travelling expenses and
lunch. Of course, all the information collected will remain strictly
confidential.
You can find more about the project at
http://genderace.ulb.ac.be. If you are willing to be interviewed
please contact us directly at
genderace@googlemail.com or call
02084114103 during office hours (9am-5pm).
Free safety and self defence training for London's young women
The
London Centre for Personal Safety has been funded to provide
personal safety and self defence training, with a focus on sexual assault prevention, for young women and girls aged 14 to 21 years old. The training aims to prevent and reduce sexual violence and the fear
of sexual violence, develop women and girls' ability to respond positively to threats to their safety.
For more information please contact Claudia Da Silva on 020 8743 7827.
Donate office space and get tax discounts
Education For Choice (EFC), the only UK-based charity dedicated to
ensuring all young people can make and act on their own choices about
pregnancy and abortion, currently seeks 4-5 desks to use for day-to-day
operations.
EFC has recently worked with other charities using office
space donated by corporations and individuals, an arrangement that
benefits both parties. Office space vacancy in London has increased
over 35% in the last year alone, allowing companies to take a closer
look at tax policies and their corporate social responsibility
policies. Organisations that allow charities to use their office space
can deduct the value of the office space and pay no Corporation Tax on
that space. (For example, if the value of the space was £1000/year and
your profits were £10000, you would only pay Corporation Tax on £9000.)
Furthermore a business rates discount of 80% is available on space let
to registered charities such as EFC.
A donation of
leasehold office space to Education For Choice could save you a
significant amount. At the same time, you could fulfill some of your
CSR commitments by using existing space to support us. Of course EFC is
flexible in the exact nature of the leasehold, and we realise that at a
later point your organisation may again need to use that space. EFC has
been recognised as a best practice practitioner by a Government
Independent Advisory Group, and our reputation is well-known among
larger health charities.
Do you think this is something
you’d like to look into further with us? If so, EFC has already liased
with estate agents, charities working under this arrangement and
businesses taking advantage of this arrangement, and would be happy to
facilitate a meeting to discuss further. We would also love to send you
more information about our work and the young people we help. Contact
kate@efc.org.uk for more.
New book: Violence against women in South Asian communities
Edited by Ravi Thiara and Aisha Gill, and with a foreword by Professor Liz Kelly CBE, this book explores the key issues involved in gendered violence, ethnicity and South Asian
communities.
The editors draw together leading researchers and practitioners to provide a critical reflection of contemporary debates and consider how these reflections can inform policy, research and practice. The contributors consider the primacy of religion and culture, and how South Asian women face multiple and intersecting forms of violence. Future directions for facilitating improved services for survivors of violence against women from different racial and
ethnic backgrounds are also proposed. Read more here
(flyer, PDF 115KB).
Reports from Million Women Rise march 2009
Thousands of women marched through central London on 7 March 2009 demanding an end to male violence against women. You can listen to an
audio report from the march by Women's Parliamentary Radio, watch a
video report, read reports by the
Women's Resource Centre, the
F-Word, and
others and see photos
here and
here.
Next year's march is planned for Monday 8 March 2010. See more
here.
Join a Women's Design Group and help 'women-proof' local plans
Women’s
Design Groups perform for gender what Access Groups deliver for
disability: ‘women proof’ local plans, policies and major planning
applications. WDGs include women who are professionally involved
in planning and the built environment, and women who
have an interest in becoming more knowledgeable and engaged with issues
affecting their neighbourhoods. The Groups’ membership will include as
diverse a range of women as possible, from different age, disability,
ethnicity, sexuality and caring backgrounds.
Groups are planned for the London Boroughs of Barnet, Enfield,
Redbridge, Westminster, Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark,
Wandsworth, Bromley, Hillingdon, Ealing and Brent.
Contact
Georgia on
gwrighton@wds.org.uk or 020 7490 5210 if you would be
interested in joining one of the Groups.
Report: How aid agencies respond to violence against women
The
Central American Women's Network (CAWN) has published its latest research on the response of international aid agencies to violence against women, using Honduras as a case study.
The report identifies seven different approaches that international aid agencies have adopted to tackle violence against women in Honduras.
The report also argues that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have actually made tackling violence against women more difficult. Although the MDGs have gender equality as their third goal, violence against women is not directly addressed and seems to get lost in formal development frameworks, instruments, indicators and reporting mechanisms.
Download the report.
Am I safe yet? Stories of women seeking asylum in Britain
Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) has published a book of first-hand
narratives by nine of its members. In
Am I Safe Yet? each woman tells
the story of her early life, what led her to flee her home in Africa or
Asia and her experiences since arriving in Britain. The book is
illustrated with full-colour portraits and poetry and contains
background information on the British legal system and how it relates
to asylum-seeking women and their families.
Available
for £8 from
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust, Ground Floor, Devonshire House,
Precinct Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL Tel. 0161 275 2920.
Free publications from Rights of Women
Rights of Women has a grant to distribute free copies of two of their publications to women's organisations. If you would like a copy of From A-Z: A Woman's Guide to the Law or Pathways to Justice: BMER Women and the Law, contact Mina Rai at
mina@row.org.uk or 020 7251 6575.
New website for Tindlemanor women's building
Tindlemanor - a six storey building for women’s organisations centrally located near Old Street London - now has a
website where you can find out about their meeting room facilities for women's organisations.
Hire rooms at West Hampstead Women's Centre
West Hampstead Women's Centre in London has rooms available to hire. They have three rooms suitable for meetings, workshops, drop-in sessions etc and two purpose-built therapy rooms. They are available to hire for £10-£30 an hour.
For more details see: http://www.whwc.co.uk/services/rooms/docs/Rooms_for_hire_WHWC.pdf or contact info@whwc.co.uk or 020 7328 7389.
During the day the rooms can only be hired by all-female groups so as to ensure the centre remains a safe space for the women who use their services. Out of hours and at weekends male and female groups are welcome. During these times there is an additional £10 per hour charge to cover the cost of caretaking as the office is closed.