Campaigns and Events

Where she was, to where she is now: Celebrating the Women and Girls Initiative

We were asked to be part of a new animation film produced as part of the Women and Girls Initiative (WGI) Learning and Impact Services and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. Made by Leeds Animation Workshop, the film shares words and drawings from women and girls who are supported by the 62 organisations involved with the Initiative. Projects were funded to offer flexible, holistic support and the film illustrates the difference that specialist services for women and girls can make. It gives a moving insight into how important the Initiative has been in helping projects support women and girls to grow.

We are extremely proud to see our young women’s artwork be featured in this thought provoking and powerful piece of film.

You can view more about the film here

You can view our part of the video at 8:14 below

Women's Trust: Young Female and Forgotten

A group of young women were asked to take part in Young, Female and Forgotten, a research project conducted by the Women's Trust in London. The research looked in to young women's experiences of employment, training and education, and barriers young women face in relation to high powered employment.

The research had 3 parts, the first was an interview at the Young Women's Project, the second was a daily diary kept by the young women of everything they did for 7 days, and the third was participation in a Co-creation Event in London. The event was a workshop based event where young women and decision makers got together to explore what the outcome of the initial sections of the research are, and how we can move forward by looking at solutions to issues and barriers young women face.

The workshop included exploring live case studies that had been collected from the first stages of the research, enabling young women to voice their experiences and opinions to decision makers. This enabled decision makers to get an understanding of the barriers faced and to talk to young women to come up with solutions. One of our young women was tasked with reading out a quote from the research and she was over the moon to have completed it.

We thoroughly enjoyed the group work activities involved in the research and being able to talk to decision makers about their experiences. As we were in London we also managed to see some sights, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Harry Potter, and St Pancras Station to name a few and the young women were also very excited to see Wicked at the Theatre.

London and Co-creation was an amazing experience for the young women as most had never been to London, or taken part in any form of consultation work. Since the event, all three young women have become members of the Women's Trust Advisory Committee and have taken part in similar activities.

To view Young, Female and Forgotten please click the download links in the embedded page below