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WRC Policy Forum

Purpose:

The WRC Policy Forum is a strategic forum made up of women from WRC’s member organisations, which will develop strategies for public policy change on issues impacting upon WRC members and the broader women’s sector in WRC’s remit is to support voluntary and community organisations that work to improve the status of women. As such, this is the broad focus of its policy work, and the aims of the Policy Forum should fit with this remit. The aims of the Policy Forum are to:

Inform and direct the WRC Policy Team on issues of importance to WRC’s members and the London women’s voluntary and community sector.

Pro-actively identify policy issues that affect WRC members and the women's sector at community level.

Feed Policy Forum Members’ expertise into government policy consultations.

Build the capacity of Policy Forum Members to influence public policy and provide an opportunity to network with other women’s organisations.

Activities:

Advise the WRC Policy Team on policy issues affecting women’s voluntary and community organisations, particularly organisations led by Black, Minority Ethnic, Refugee, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Disabled, Older and Younger women.

Work with the WRC Policy Team in developing, critiquing, and responding to policy consultations, lobbying decision makers about policy, and developing other pro-active strategies to input into public policy.

Share information, ideas, resources, knowledge and contacts between Policy Forum members, with WRC members, and within the broader women’s voluntary and community sector.

Region or specific community:

London mainly, Women

Membership Criteria if any:

Membership of WRC.

Membership Fee if any:

None (membership of WRC costs between £5 and £30)

Contact Name:

Tania Pouwhare

Contact Address:

33-41 Dallington Street
London
EC1V 0BB

Contact Phone:

020 7324 3030

Contact Mobile:

Contact Email:

Tania@wrc.org.uk

Contact Web:

http://www.wrc.org.uk

Funders if any:

-

Other Information:

The Policy Forum has 15-20 Members, who are women working or volunteering in the voluntary and community sector, and are members of WRC.

The Policy Forum acknowledges the diversity within the women’s sector.

We also acknowledge that not all of us come to the table as equals, because of constraints such as time, resources and funding, and also the under-representation of particular communities in policy consultation.

For this reason seats on the Policy Forum are reserved for specific groups of women’s organisations, which might otherwise be marginalised or excluded from the Forum.

WRC have designated an optimum number of membership seats to ensure we have at least a minimum of diverse representation. These seats are based upon both our membership profile, and communities or fields of work we know are marginalised. There may be crossovers, where one organisation may fill more than one seat.

For further information, please contact WRC.