NE Womens

By the year 2013 there will be recognition in the North East:

• That gender inequality exists
• Of the need for single gender space and for youth work with girls and young women

By the year 2013 the Women’s Sector in the North East will be:

• Recognised by politicians, policy makers and Government
• Autonomous with it’s own space, authority is a force that is listened to on a level playing field with other agencies
• Providing practical support as well as publicising discrimination e.g. for women asylum seekers

By the year 2013 the North East Regional Women’s Sector Network in the North East will:

• Be where women’s organisations come together to work together on issues and take on each others priorities and campaigns
• Be strong enough to take on and resolve problems of womens’ groups and organisations
• Have integrity and be approachable, accessible and available to any women’s group, organisation, social enterprise or collective

How we will achieve our visions

• Everything that we do strategic will have a practical side – never doing research without actions and making sure action is always happening·
• Developing and putting into action alternative and different ways of being and doing
• Developing a counter culture (moving away from masculine ways) being female and breaking the taboo of asking for support
• Developing and putting into action collective ways of working and thinking of others rather than competing with others for resources etc. (giving things away and get things back)
• Spending time with each other and sharing skills and knowledge and linking this to networking events
• Setting up a mentoring and skills exchange and developing LETS schemes and Timebanks to give something back to others
• Doing more work to attract women with disabilities, Black and minority ethnic women, lesbian and bisexual women and making young women central to the network
• Educating and raising awareness about feminism and dispelling the negative connotations
• Finding simple ways of explaining who we are