Positively Women
Positively Women is an organisation led by and for HIV positive women offering a structured volunteer programme which encourages ex-service users to work within the organisation. Service users often move to the support group and then are likely to become a volunteer or a paid member of staff.
Tower Hamlets Women's Aid
Tower Hamlets Women’s Aid provides a combination of crisis and community services for women affected by domestic violence. Whilst the refuge service ensures that women are safe from perpetrators of violence in the short-term through offering temporary accommodation, the community services ensure that women have access to information and support to enable them to make informed decisions about their lives and achieve long- term outcomes of living without violence.
Hillingdon Women's Centre
Hillingdon Women’s Centre (HWC) is part of a long tradition of women-only spaces and women’s centres which came into being in the 1970s and 1980s. It provides an integrated approach which broadens the scope of service provision to women, ensuring that service users are offered support in a variety of different ways. HWC caters for needs that women in the community have identified themselves and this needs-based approach has meant that the centre has been a women-only space since its inception.
Black Women's Mental Health Project
The Black Women’s Mental Health Project (BWMHP) is a self-help group run by one part-time paid worker, volunteers and social work students on placement. BWMHP provides home visits, hospital visits, emotional support, referrals to counselling and a helpline. The staff and volunteers regularly visit all the women patients in the local mental health trust hospital and participate in national debates and consultations on mental health issues. Despite its very limited resources, the BWMHP has supported many women during their recovery from mental illness, helping them to maintain good mental health and progress into community participation, education and employment.
Women's Environmental Network
The Women’s Environmental Network (WEN) was founded by women who felt that women’s environmental concerns were marginalised and ignored. WEN is a campaigning organisation which enables individuals to use their consumer power as a force for positive environmental change, by informing, educating and empowering women and men. WEN has had a successful campaigning history.