| Glasgow Women’s
Voluntary Sector Network was set up in
1996 to ensure that projects working with women in Glasgow had a
method of responding to and influencing Glasgow City Council’s
Equality Agenda through their nominated members attending the Equality
Networks Forum.
The Network aims to bring together women who work
in the voluntary sector, whether paid or unpaid, to provide a
forum for the sharing of information and mutual support, to raise
awareness of and advocate for the alleviation of social exclusion
and discrimination faced by women in Glasgow. The Standing Group
on Violence Against Women was set up as a sub-group of the Network,
originally to look at funding for Violence Against Women organisations,
and continues to date, with representatives sitting on the Board
of the Glasgow Violence Against Women Partnership
Our Objectives:
• Provide a mechanism for identifying gaps in information
and services to women in Glasgow.
• Seek to influence the policy and practice of Glasgow City
Council and other appropriate bodies delivering services to women
in Glasgow.
• Monitor the Council’s and other appropriate bodies’
progress on women’s issues.
• Consult on relevant issues and act as a point of contact
for external consultations.
• Promote anti-discriminatory practice and advocate for such
practice to be the norm by challenging racism, homophobia and
disablism by proactively working to end violence and discrimination
towards black women, lesbians and disabled women and by drawing
connections between different types of discrimination (e.g. sexism,
racism, homophobia, disablism and classism).
• Act as a united voice for women’s organisations and
organisations that provide a service to women.
• Monitor and evaluate the funding and resource allocation
to women’s organisations that provide a service to women
in Glasgow.
We meet every 6 weeks, alternating business and information
sessions. Business meetings coincide with the Equality Networks
Forum quarterly meetings and allow us to discuss the ENF agenda
ahead of the meeting, as well as to progress our work on the aims
and objectives outlined above. Our recently established information
sessions have been successful and have been a useful way of involving
women and engaging with organisations who do not necessarily attend
our Business meetings. Information Sessions cover areas such as:
Women Seeking Asylum; women and Addiction; Child Sexual Abuse;
Women and Mental Health issues; Presentations from new and existing
projects
For more information please
contact:
Lorna or Frances on 0141 550 7557 or email
lorna_wisewomen@hotmail.com
or frances_wisewomen@hotmail.com
or
Harriette Campbell: Tel 0141 942 4849 or email harriette2003@yahoo.co.uk
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