On 22 June 2010 Rights of Women will be holding a conference to assess how the UK Measures Up to its commitments under international to prevent and respond to all forms of violence against women.
Global Commitments and UK Compliance
We will hear from leading women experts from the Women’s National Commission and the United Nations [...]
Object hopes you can join us for a night of female stand-up at The Comedy Pub, Piccadilly on Wednesday 19th May 2010 from 8.30-11pm
Tickets £15-£50 (depending on what you wish to donate).
Raffle (prizes include champagne & an ipod shuffle).
Join us! Have fun! All proceeds to OBJECT!
Bookings: clair@object.org.uk
Priority booking to members (join here [...]
Women in Prison – Supporting and campaigning for women offenders and ex-offenders
DO WOMEN BELONG IN PRISON?
Women in Prison says NO. We are a national charity run by women for women. We provide specialist services to women offenders and ex-offenders, in prison and in the community throughout England, with offices in London, Manchester and York.
Director
£50,000 pa
3 [...]
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Women’s Pioneer Housing
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Women’s Pioneer Housing are a financially secure not for profit organisation providing affordable rented homes to 1000 women headed households on low incomes in west London. Our residents are [...]
Refuge Workers
London £26,334- £28,839
Kent, East Sussex, Fenlands and Mid Cambridge (20 hours per week) £23,118 – £25,622 pro rata
Your role will entail providing invaluable practical and emotional support to women and their children, such as advocacy, support around welfare, housing and legal entitlements, and supporting women to move on to safe and permanent accommodation. You [...]
Introduction to Planning
Tuesday 11th May 2010, 5.00pm-7.00pm at Tindlemanor, 52-54 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8RT.
Giving women the tools to engage with the planning system more effectively. Learn how to find out about and respond to planning documents, understand drawings and influence decision making processes.
Delivered in partnership with Planning Aid for London.
Environment & Social Sustainability
Tuesday 29th [...]
The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee is pleased to tell you that:
* An abbreviated text of Jackie Mulhallen’s 2009 Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture has now been posted on our website http://sylviapankhurst.gn.apc.org
* The 2010 Lecture will be held on Friday 13 August at Wortley Hall, Sheffield http://www.wortleyhall.org.uk
After concerted efforts to woo women voters, the parties’ manifestos hardly mention those same women, and the policies they do propose range from disappointing to downright disturbing.
Women are dealt with in piecemeal fashion with no party providing coherent explanations of how their policies will impact on women lives or how they will address persistent gender [...]
Sound & Silents is a strand of innovative cross-arts performances that unite female creative excellence in music and film.
For the past three years Sound & Silents has presented a number of classic silent films starring iconic actresses. Each year the film programme has been united under a special theme; the 2008 strand focussed on [...]
7pm at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
Chaired by Miranda Sawyer, top experts discuss gender gap in the music industry.
Only 7% of directors and 12% of screenwriters are female. We are aware that gender imbalance also exists amongst women taking the creative lead in the music industry. Already the leading organisation to [...]
