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Latest news
Launch of 3rd 'why women?' report
WRC have launched their latest report in the ‘why women?’ campaign. The report, Not just bread, but roses, too maps women’s organisations across all of the English regions. We’ve looked at the areas organisations work in, the equalities strands they focus on and have tracked income and expenditure data for 2004 to 2007. One of the key findings is that 1 in 5 women's organisations became inactive during 2004-7.
You can download the report, hot off the press, to read about the research and its key findings in full.
News from the women's sector
VAW Home Office Consultation
The Home Office is encouraging a national debate on how to prevent violence against women, how to protect women and children experiencing violence and how to convince women to report it. You can take part (and encourage colleagues and service users to take part) in the following ways:
1. Take the online survey.
2. Download the VAW consultation and post or email your reply to the Home Office.
3. Come and join the debate in person at one of the national events, being held in a number of regions over the next few months.
The consulation closes on 29 May 2009, so get your responses in a.s.a.p.!
Tower Hamlets funding seminar
Date: Tuesday 28 April 2009
Time: 10am - 2pm
Venue: The Davenant Centre, 179-181 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1DN
Come listen and pose your questions to inspiring experts on
commissioning and social enterprise. This is a funding seminar
centring on the income generation opportunities presented by winning
public service contracts and setting up social enterprise, along with
information on finding funding from individual donors.
Book your place on this event and find out about the other events taking place as part of WRC's Building Futures project
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Valuing the BME Third Sector campaign
Voice4Change England has launched its Valuing the BME Third Sector campaign to increase recognition of the vital contribution made by BME organisations to civil society and they need your support in promoting this to MPs.
The BME Third Sector does a fantastic job in delivering services that meet the needs of marginalised communities and build equality, but this contribution often goes unnoticed and frequently unappreciated. Therefore Alun Michael MP has put down an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons to raise awareness of the role of the Sector and to highlight some of the crucial issues it faces.
To help V4CE develop the campaign outside Parliament they need individuals and organisations to contact their local MP to request they support the EDM. Don't know who your MP is? Find out here.
£1.6 million for Rape Crisis Centres and The Survivors Trust
Harriet Harman, Minister for Women and Equality, has announced £1.6 million for Rape Crisis Centres and The Survivors Trust members across England and Wales. This is in addition to £1.1 million of emergency funding for rape crisis centres announced last March.
You can find out more about the issues affecting the sector from our Crisis in Rape Crisis campaign.
Fawcett report on women and the recession
The Fawcett Society has released a new report which calls on the government to take urgent action to counter the impact of the recession on women. It documents how women have entered this recession on an unequal economic footing that makes them particularly vulnerable to the downturn and sets out a five point plan that promotes women’s rights and economic recovery.
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