Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums’ ‘Women of Tyneside’ project are hosting a Festival of Women from March-June 2019. TWAM are inviting organisations of share their events and activities so they can promote and celebrate collaboratively through the printed programme which will be distributed across Tyneside early next year. Deadline for submission of information: 15^th January 2019.  

The Welsh Government has published new standards to improve the services provided for perpetrators of violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence in Wales and to better protect those who have experienced this abuse. The standards follow the commitment made in the Government's Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Act to increase the focus on holding perpetrators to account and provide opportunities to change their behaviour.

The Ministry of Justice is offering up to £650,000 in resource funding for 2018/19 for investment in female offender services. Expressions of Interests are invited for projects which could benefit from a resource funding grant, and which meet the funding criteria. Projects must be aligned with, and further the aims of, the female offender strategy, and you need approval from your National Probation Service’s Divisional Director.

The Women’s Budget Group and Women’s Resource Centre have launched a report focusing on specialist women’s organisations. With the exception of one organisation in the survey and one organisation in the qualitative interviews, all organisations who participated in this research are led by women, offering services and support targeted specifically to women. The aim of this report is to analyse how these specialist, often local organisations are faring in the current funding environment.