Library Services – The Women’s Library The Women’s Library holds the most extensive collection of material relating to women’s history in the UK. It is housed in a purpose built building that hosts major exhibitions, events and full access to its collections. The Women’s Library is at the heart of the Special Collections at London [...]
Women in Prison – Supporting and campaigning for women offenders and ex-offenders Do you have a commitment to working within a women-centred service and to making a difference to vulnerable women’s lives? Women in Prison (WIP) is a unique national charity providing support, advice and guidance to women in prison or at risk of offending. [...]
Woman’s Trust is a registered charity based in London which provides counselling and support to women affected by domestic violence. We run training for front-line staff and cross-borough advocacy services for women in Westminster, RBKC & Greenwich. Female Advocacy Manager – Greenwich Full–time 35hrs per week £32,213 Temporary contract to 31.3.2010 subject to possible extension [...]
Tindlemanor Ltd is an organisation with charitable aims based in Old St EC1Y that provides safe, affordable space for women’s organisations. Tindlemanor is a women only serviced building currently housing seven women’s charities. We are environmentally minded and operate ethical and environmental policies in our building management, and have up to 92 m2 office space [...]
Confidence Building – 10 week course 24th Sept to 3rd December Thursdays 10.00am till 12.00pm * Do you feel there must be more to life? Are you lacking in confidence? * Want to try something new? * Not sure how to make changes in your life? Why not try our Confidence Building course to look [...]
Join Rights of Women, Eaves and OBJECT to Support Clause 13 of the Policing and Crime Bill Dear friends and colleagues, We have been providing women with free, specialist legal advice for nearly 35 years. Our areas of expertise include all forms of violence against women (including domestic and sexual violence), family, immigration and asylum [...]
WAFE Women worldwide Advancing Freedom and Equality Invites you to the third in our series of meetings on: The Limits of Tolerance 28th October 2009 from 6:00-8:00pm House of Lords, Room G In the Chair: Baroness Harris of Richmond Is the Press Complaints Commission Getting the Balance Right? Robert Pinker, Advisor to the Press Complaints [...]
October 2009 Thursday 8 October, All day * Ms Understood: Women’s liberation in 1970s Britain Exhibition Opening Day Thursday 8 October, All day * Striking Women: Voices of South Asian workers from Grunwick and Gate Gourmet Exhibition Opening Day Thursday 8 October, 7pm (90mins) * American Women in Gilded Age London: Expatriates Rediscovered Literature Saturday [...]
In our foyer … Opening: 8 October 2009 Admission: Free Remember Grunwick, the 1976 strike in London led by South Asian women ‘strikers in saris,’ according to the media? Almost thirty years later, women workers at Gate Gourmet took action against their employer and the British press reached for the same clichés. This display explores [...]
Ms Understood: Women’s Liberation in 1970’s Britain Opening: 8 October 2009 Ending: 31 March 2010 Entrance fee: Free Ms Understood: Women’s Liberation in 1970’s Britain celebrates the 40th anniversary of the country’s first national Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford. During this event, over five hundred women came together and lay the foundation for [...]
