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Workshop One: the unconscious dynamics of oppression in the therapy room.
Workshop Two: our binary frames of reference in terms of sex, gender & sexuality.
Using oral history and creative techniques, we explored the impact of the Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Counselling Service.
This oral history toolkit is an accessible guide to the 'sustained relational approach' for those working with people and communities.
Listen to this podcast by the Young Feminist Collective
Listen to these clips from the PARCS Grows Everybody Oral Histories via Soundcloud.
Telling the story of the PARCS Grows Everybody project.
Watch the PARCS Grows Everybody documentary film here.
Discover the PARCS Grows Everybody oral history archive through these workshops.
Explore learnings from the PARCS Grows Everybody project, and how to apply them to future projects.
Experience learnings from the PARCS Grows Everybody oral history project through this open-access, multimedia exhibition.
A page hosting our full report, with executive summary and appendices. The report tells the WGI story and shares key learning and messages
Key insights from the five year Women and Girls Initiative
Join us for this online Lunchtime Talk by Sini Rinne-Kerridge exploring ethical consultancy
Building a gender inclusive innovation culture
This talk looked at issues of negotiating independence and the politics of knowledge production in the case of Female Genital Cutting.
The story and learnings from the Women and Girls Initiative
Green light for the 'PARCS Grows Everybody' Rape Crisis oral history project, exploring the legacy of Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Counselling Service.
The WGI film (2022), made by Leeds Animation Workshop with women and girls working with and supported by WGI funded projects.
Lisa Ward presents a webinar, recorded in April 2022, considering the role of lived experience in the women and girls’ sector, drawing on research with the Rape Crisis Network, ending with some practice recommendations.
Dr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs presents a webinar, considering the evidence, policy and practice implications around economic abuse, recorded in March 2022.
Transforming the lives of women and girls by creating the right physical and emotional spaces - a new evidence briefing.
A briefing demonstrating how women’s support services can help stop perpetrators in their tracks.
The fifth and final blog from the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic sharing learning on the sector’s strengths and challenges experienced over this time, as well as some of the desires and concerns for the future expressed by project staff.
This blog reflects on what some WGI projects were doing to increase support for staff and volunteer wellbeing during the unprecedented early days of COVID-19. It includes guidance, tools and links to a webinar on the subject.
This blog from June 2020 considers some of the benefits and disadvantages of technology for women and girls, as online communication became the ‘new normal’ during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This blog shared how projects were adapting to lockdown restrictions in the early days of COVID-19, providing online, remote and socially distanced support to women and girls who were facing some of the greatest negative impacts of the pandemic.
The first of 5 blogs about COVID-19, which shared some of the achievements of projects as they quickly and effectively mobilised to support women despite the challenges presented by the pandemic.
A new insights briefing from the Women and Girls Initiative.
A briefing designed to support those providing services for young women and girls.
How Women’s Centres can play a key role in meeting the needs of women in their communities?
The first blog written by Professor Liz Kelly, CWASU, London Metropolitan University, for the WGI, in 2018.
An introduction to the Women and Girls Initiative Learning and Impact Services.
An intergenerational oral history project celebrating the history and legacy of the Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Crisis Service from 1981-2021.
Our consultants are there both to hold the space open for profound discussions and ensure that actions are taken, and accountability lines identified.
A certificated programme comprising 4 × 2-day modules combining insights into group dynamics, unconscious processes, and emotional intelligence.
The National Lottery Community Fund has engaged the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, DMSS and CWASU (the partners), to support the Women and Girls Initiative (WGI). The partners will support the Fund’s WGI grant holders to capture and share learning, develop a community of networked services that is stronger and has greater influence.
The Women and Girls Initiative (WGI) was a National Lottery funded initiative designed to enable a stronger women and girls sector.
We were engaged to deliver the WGI Learning and Impact Services throughout the life of this initiative.
Read about some of the challenges, achievements, opportunities and concerns shared by projects funded through the Women and Girls Initiative.
Find out more about learning from the Women and Girls Initiative through briefings co-created with specialist services funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.
A series of promotional briefings highlighting individual Women and Girls Initiative projects’ achievements and impacts. These were designed to support their communication with stakeholders, and as good practice resources for other projects to use.
Explore articles that shared learning and insights from the Women and Girls Initiative, particularly during the initial COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020.
Access the WGI film and pre-recorded webinars on workers’ wellbeing, economic abuse and lived experience, from the Women and Girls Initiative.
Access the WGI film and pre-recorded webinars on workers’ wellbeing, economic abuse and lived experience, from the Women and Girls Initiative.
Reimagining diversity and inclusion