Women & Girls Network (WGN) News

Women and Girls Network (WGN) is a free, women-only service that supports women in London who have experienced violence, or are at risk of violence. We offer counselling, advocacy and advice. Our overall aim is to promote, preserve and restore the mental health and well-being of women and girls, to empower them to make a total and sustainable recovery from their experiences of violence.

We offer FREE London-wide VAWG training. We are passionate about delivering training that influences best practice and improves and enhances the effectiveness of front-line professionals working in the field of violence against women and girls. WGN’s training has at its heart the Women and Girls Network ethos. The principles of feminism, intersectionality, multiculturalism, holistic and creative approaches are threads that run through all of our training courses.

We published our very first WGN Training Newsletter filled with upcoming (virtual) training opportunities, self care practices and lock down readings. If you would like us to promote your upcoming training or other news, let me know and we would be happy to include this in our upcoming newsletter.

If you would like to receive regular information about WGN’s services, training, events, employment and volunteer opportunities please sign up to our mailing list and follow us on social media.

WGN’s training opportunities are posted on our Eventbrite Page

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SASH Events in May

SASH provides free, non-judgemental support to improve your sexual health, your relationships, and your mental health. We work in Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster to improve residents’ sexual health.

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The Loss Project

The Loss Project’s mission is to generate a community response to loss which challenges the stigma and taboo, cuts through the barriers of having difficult conversations and subjects that can often remain unspoken, whilst providing opportunities for people to connect through their experiences and build capacity to be able to support each other. We have been busy creating our covid-19 response and have a range of creative and support activities that we’ll be releasing in the coming weeks.

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Your Virtual Library continued…

Last time we told you about a whole library of books, newspapers, magazines, audiobooks and much more available with your library membership or registration number. We are hard at work to provide as much as we can online during the lockdown, and have started to engage with our communities using different online platforms.

Learn about all the ways you can engage with us online – sign up to online courses, workshops, blogs and social media channels used by the library. Click here

We’ll also suggest some good websites to visit – we’ll point you in the direction of reliable sources of information, entertainment and learning online – places on the web that are informative and fun, but also trustworthy and fact-checked.

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Newly Published Plan: Key Decision List 92 Period covered from April 2020 (Published 30 April 2020)

The following plan has just been published: Key Decision List 92 Period covered from April 2020 (published on 30 April 2020)

You can view this plan from the link: Published plan details

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Charity Tax Group Proposal for Small Charities

The Charity Tax Group has prepared a briefing for officials at BEIS, MHCLG and HM Treasury proposing that the eligibility criteria for the Small Business Grants Fund be amended to allow charities to make a claim where they would be have been eligible to claim for Small Business Rates Relief, had they not claimed mandatory charity business rates relief. Find out more.

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Community Care – Fulham Volunteer Network

Please see the following message from Ross at Community Care:

“Community Care is borne out of St Eth’s and is a local-to-Fulham volunteer run network, with a mission to provide a safe door-door delivery service for those in self-isolation during COVID-19. Since mid-March, our team of over 300 volunteers have successfully delivered hundreds of shopping runs to those in isolation, but we want to do more.

Now we have officially extended our service to support all key workers, including NHS staff, teachers and more, with the support of our MP Greg Hands.

Please help share our message. If you are a key worker or self-isolated, or know someone who is, let’s make sure no one goes without during COVID-19.

For more information on how to get involved, donate, or to get help, please visit our website
www.communitycarelondon.com

It’s ok to ask for help. Our own members have utilised our service, and by doing so, have supported the governments ‘stay at home’ campaign.

For those who would prefer to shop for themselves, we have developed a list of all other local delivery services.”

 

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Can Charities Share Personal Data if They Have a Concern about Someone’s Welfare?

Charities routinely obtain personal information from clients or service users, often given in confidence and relating to very sensitive matters. Most charities have privacy and data protection processes in place to avoid unauthorised access to such personal information, and to assure clients that their information will be kept secure. But what happens if a charity needs to share personal information with a third party in order to protect someone’s welfare?

This article from Russell-Cooke Solicitors considers a recent court case where this question was considered. Read more

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Connecting Choices Virtual Hub

Connecting Choices Virtual Hub was set up in response to COVID-19 in early April 2020. The Virtual Hub is an ESF-funded project that is part of the Building Better Opportunities (BBO) project that started at the end of 2016 described as offering Holistic support for disadvantaged people across Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme and the Staffordshire Moorlands.

The website contains useful links to posts that include articles such as “What is Ramadan?” and a link to online training, “Free Online Digital Skills Training for Everyone” and more. Current virtual offerings are weekly activities include Art & Craft and Creative Writing. More activities are in development.

The programme is managed by Ixion a not-for-profit group of companies, delivering government funded provision that is a subsidiary of The Shaw Trust ( http://www.ixionholdings.com/).

For more information visit https://connectingchoices.co.uk/

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Weekly Surgeries for The Voluntary & Community Sector

Following the Labour Party leadership election Rachel Maskell MP has been appointed Shadow Charities Minister, and she says she will be doing weekly surgeries for the Voluntary and Community Sector starting today!

What better time to tell her about your experience of the current crisis, and what support your charity needs to continue to provide critical services for people? Do the government’s existing schemes work for you, and what more do you need? What policy changes might help most?

Find out more and how to book your slot here.

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