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Women's Resource Centre - Conference 2006

Thriving or Surviving?
The Future of the Women's Voluntary and Community Sector

Thursday 23 March 2006
Regent's College, London NW1 (accessible venue)

Come along and gain practical skills and information to help safeguard the future of your organisation. Topics include: funding for the women's sector, effective collective action and women in social enterprise.

Speakers:
* Ranjit Kaur, Rights of Women
* Stuart Etherington, NCVO
* Vivienne Hayes, WRC
* Bharat Mehta OBE, City Parochial Foundation and Trust for London
* Julia Unwin, Independent Consultant on Voluntary Sector Funding
* Barbra Wallace, Stepney Works
* Chantelle Brown, Transport and General Workers Union

Further information and a booking form from the Women's Resource Centre
* Tel: 020 7324 3030
* Email: conference@wrc.org.uk
* http://www.wrc.org.uk/

As I'm sure you are aware, women's groups provide valuable, and often life-saving, services and support to thousands of women as well as lobbying for women's rights and ending discrimination against women. The environment in which the women's voluntary and community sector operates is changing rapidly and we are concerned that many women's groups are in danger of closing or significantly having to reduce their services. The aim of our conference (Thursday 23 March 2006) will be to look at the challenges facing the sector and to find ways forward to ensure that the invaluable and irreplaceable services provided by the women's voluntary and community sector survive (and perhaps even thrive) in this time of change and upheaval for the sector.

The conference will bring together representatives from the hundreds of women's charities and projects that work with women, as well as policy-makers, funders and representatives from unions, social enterprises and the public sector. The conference will begin with the keynote speech, followed by a 'Question Time'-style panel made up of key people in the voluntary and community and public sectors. The panel will be chaired by Kate Silverton of BBC Breakfast and BBC News 24 and confirmed speakers include Ranjit Kaur (Director, Rights of Women), Stuart Etherington (Chief Executive, NCVO) and Julia Unwin (independent consultant on voluntary sector funding). In the afternoon we will provide practical workshops on a range of issues that will help women keep their organisations alive. A networking reception will follow the conference in the evening.

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