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Women's Network Oldham

Purpose:

1. What is the Women’s Network?

To join the Women’s Network group you need to be a member of a voluntary, community or faith group, involved in delivering a service within the Borough of Oldham and be a woman.

2. What is the role of the Womens Network?

The aim of the Women’s Network is to strengthen women’s position in theCommunity, support the development of women’s groups, tackle inequalities and widen opportunities for women. The network will seek to:-

• Support the development of women’s groups and women’s organisations and encourage women’s collective action to bring about change.
• Support women’s participation in decision making at all levels – in the community, in Oldham and at national level.

Raise awareness of issues relating to women’s inequality and promote women’s equality.

Recognise the diversity of women’s needs and support women’s communities of interest.

Provide women with skills that will enhance women’s community development.

3. Having a voice in the community:

The network will feed in their views into the Oldham Partnership and the decision making mechanisms through the Voluntary, Community & Faith Partnership. The Oldham Partnership does not deliver targets directly, this is the job of the service providers, they have a role that oversees and monitors service provision.

4. How?

a) Meetings: Information Sharing, Networking, Planning
b) Events: To increase capacity, cohesion
c) Workshops: To increase our skills and confidence to represent Womens issue.
d) Training: (same as C.)

(The network will only be effective as the time and energy members invest in it. By being part of the network, members can gain support, help, advice, share information, ideas and knowledge)

Activities:

The Network normally meets once a month and have a standard agenda item “Women related issues in your area” and asks members to contribute and highlight any issues effecting women in their area. We invite speakers to do presentation about different topics as and when Network makes a request.

Region or specific community:

Oldham - Anyone working within Voluntary and Community Sector in Oldham and is a woman

Membership Criteria if any:

Need to be a woman

Membership Fee if any:

None

Contact Name:

Yasmin Toor

Contact Address:

Voluntary Action Oldham
12 Manchester Chambers
Oldham
OL1 1LF

Contact Phone:

0161 633 6222

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Contact Email:

ceto.outreach@vaoldham.org.uk

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Funders if any:

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