Mansfield and Ashfield Safety Centre’s survival secured

24 April 2008 in Domestic Violence, Funding, Midlands East, Women's Group

A centre which helps victims of domestic violence in Mansfield and Ashfield has been given a funding boost to help it survive for the next year.
It was reported earlier this year how the Mansfield and Ashfield Safety Centre (MASC) was facing a serious funding shortfall of around £80,000 and could have been forced to make [...]

Living Islam Out Loud – American Muslim Women Speak Tour – London, Oxford, Leicester, Leeds

2 April 2008 in Faith, Feminism, London, Midlands East, South East, Women's Event, Yorkshire and Humberside

“Living Islam Out Loud” is a provocative and no holds barred presentation of the first generation of American Muslim women; women who have always identified themselves as both American and Muslim. These women are forging their own paths and in the aggregate are creating an American Muslim identity.
“Living Islam Out Loud” portrays sixteen American Muslim [...]

Victims of domestic violence and their families who are most at risk of serious harm are to be helped by increased partnership working in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

18 March 2008 in Domestic Violence, Midlands East

Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs) are to be held monthly to identify and share information about those women and men who are believed to be in the most danger. Interventions and individual support plans will then be put in place to help manage and reduce the risks to the victim and any children involved. [...]

Assistant Director (Business), Leicestershire Women’s Aid

11 March 2008 in Midlands East, Vacancies

Women’s Aid Leicestershire Limited (WALL) works across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to assist women and children in dealing with the impact of domestic violence. We provide specialist outreach services and support, temporary refuge accommodation and training for external agencies.
Salary: £30,843.00-£33,315.00 (under review)
Hours: 37 hours per week, including some evenings and weekends
This is a very exciting [...]

Helping Mansfield and Ashfield Women’s Aid

23 February 2008 in Domestic Violence, Midlands East, Women's Group

Mansfield and Ashfield Women’s Aid has been awarded a grant of £5,000 to help raise awareness of the service it provides.
The charity has been given the funds by the Nationwide Foundation — a grant provider financed by Nationwide Building Society — to help tackle the problem of domestic violence.
Linda Faulkner, finance administrator at Mansfield [...]

4,600 incidents of domestic violence in Northamptonshire

28 January 2008 in Domestic Violence, Midlands East

Almost half of domestic abuse victims in Northamptonshire are repeat complainants who are forced to report the crime to police more than once.
Figures have revealed that during 2007, a total of 4,607 people reported incidents of domestic abuse at the hands of their spouses or partners, or members of their families.
Of those almost 50 per [...]

Global to local: Making the best use of the international work for women in our own work at home

11 January 2008 in Midlands East, Women's Event

Be one of the first to see and discuss a brand new report on how community and voluntary groups use international work at home.
This first ever conference on the subject gives you an opportunity to:
* hear the results of the research,
* find out more about international agreements to do with women,
* find out how other [...]