Smallwood Trust are recruiting a Board Member

The Smallwood Trust has been helping women out of poverty for more than a century. As they move towards their 135th anniversary in 2021 they are looking for additional board members who can help them accelerate their strategy to achieve a gender equal economy and society. Deadline to apply is March 8th 2020. Find out more here.

Women's End2End Relay

Love Her Wild is launching our most exciting adventure yet…. Women’s End2End; a hiking relay stretching the length of the UK. And we need your help!

Starting 1st April in Land’s End, the Women’s End2End relay will finish 74 days later in John O’Groats. Hundreds of women from across the UK will come together to help carry the baton across 2,028km and over 36.970m of elevation.

All money raised from the relay will go to The Woodland Trust to help protect UK’s wild spaces.

Seminar - Symbolic, State and Organisational Violence

19 Feb 2020 - 15:00

Lipman 232 Northumbria University

This Girl Can IWD Event Newcastle

5 Feb 2020 - 17:30

Exhibition Park Claremont Road Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4PZ

Request from North Tyneside Labour Party Women's Forum for BAME contributors to IWD film

North Tyneside Labour Part Women's Forum member Michelle Fox has volunteered to make a short film for an International Women's Day event to be hosted in North Tyneside about the challenges facing women (including LGBTQ+) and how we, as activists, can help and support them to tackle and overcome these challenges.

Funding for projects that get girls and women moving

Grants of up to £10,000 are available to not-for-profit organisations, schools, voluntary or community clubs, registered charities or community interest companies for projects that get girls and women active.

This fund aims to support women aged 16+ to get active by offering National Lottery grants to local projects that will contribute to overcoming the barriers some women face in getting active: from a lack of opportunities offered in their local area, to cost and availability of childcare.

Everywoman - the myth of the work life balance

In early 2019 business owner Annie Browne was asked to speak at an event about work life balance. She told her audience she doesn’t believe there is any such thing. Here she shares her tips on achieving something even better – a work-life blend. https://www.everywoman-selfmade.com/inspired/top-tips/the-myth-of-the-work-life-balance

Talking About UK Poverty Toolkit

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We’ve taken the launch of our new UK Poverty report as an opportunity to release a new edition of our Talking About Poverty toolkit. This straightforward guide gives you the key messages from our latest content and findings and is designed to support you – our friends and allies campaigning to turn the tide on UK poverty – to prepare a quality response, tell a well-framed story on the issues you’re concerned about, and join us to call for action. Together, we can be a collective voice for change that’s impossible to ignore.

What Next for Activate

The Activate Team plan to follow up on their North East launch events in Middlesbrough and Newcastle.

"We hope the events provided you with a source of energy - energy that we’d love for you to channel into Activate! Help us champion female community activists to stand for office. Help us renew politics so that it is more reflective of the society we live in. It is time! Here are the things you can do to help:

UK Somalis 'racially profiled' over FGM

Parents are wrongly being arrested and having their children taken into care due to the stigma around female genital mutilation (FGM), members of the UK Somali community have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme. They say figures suggesting tens of thousands of girls are at risk in the UK are inaccurate.

"Social services with the police came to the house, removed our children and arrested my wife. We didn't know what the allegations were - nobody said anything, nobody asked us anything, it was just really a shock," said Yusef - not his real name.

North East Women's Network

Collaboration and partnership