Dangos 291 canlyniad

Material relating to the Welsh Women's Aid national conference held in Cardiff, 24-25 September 1994.

Material relating to the Welsh Women's Aid national conference held in Bangor, Wales, 12-13 September 1998.

Material relating to an Active Community convention held in Cardiff, 2 March 2000.

Reports and statistics relating to Welsh Women's Aid, including annual reports, annual reviews and staff workers' reports.

Material relating to welfare payments, housing and the community charge/poll tax, particularly in relation to women and children accessing Women's Aid services.

Papers of Cardigan branch of Welsh Women's Aid, largely comprising correspondence and other material relating to the establishment of Cardigan Women's Aid refuge, together with records of branch meetings.

ONE ITEM IS CLOSED FOR 82 YEARS FROM DATE OF LAST ENTRY. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 EXEMPTION (SECTION 40) (PERSONAL INFORMATION).

Papers of Radnorshire Women's Aid (which appears to have previously been known as South Powys Women's Aid - see letter dated 16 June 1989; there are also two (undated, but apparently earlier) letters headed 'Llandrindod & Builth Wells Women's Aid'), including Annual Reports, 1990-1996; correspondence relating to complaints made against Radnorshire Women's Aid and against one staff member in particular (embargoed); correspondence relating to funding and other matters; accounts and statistics; and records of meetings.

Draft and fair-copy material relating to Welsh Women's Aid process of staff recruitment, including job advertisements, job descriptions and employment contracts.

Material (divided into two large boxes: 1979-1999 and 2000-2002) relating to Welsh Women's Aid's ongoing strategies to obtain funding for the continued running and upkeep of refuges, mostly comprising information regarding potential sources of funding, together with questionnaires and application forms; and records of Welsh Women's Aid's Funding Strategy Working Party. In a smaller box are a series of Welsh Women's Aid Member Group Service Provision draft reports for 2001-2002.

Material relating to the establishment and upkeep of Welsh Women's Aid's telephone helpline, including a significant number of items relating to the Northern Ireland Women's Aid helpline service.

Material relating to domestic violence and violence against women in general, including resource information; reports and statistics; press cuttings; and material relating to victim support projects and to campaigns by the Justice for Women movement to free Kiranjit Ahluwalia, Porn Enticknap, Emma Humphreys, Sara Thornton and other women convicted and imprisoned for killing abusive husbands or partners. Together with papers relating to the Powys Domestic Abuse Forum (held in folder), which include records of Forum meetings.

** TWO ITEMS ARE CLOSED FOR 82 YEARS FROM DATE OF LAST ENTRY. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 EXEMPTION (SECTION 40) (PERSONAL INFORMATION). ***

Material relating to law and legislation and the police as they apply to the work of Welsh Women's Aid. Includes records of Welsh Women's Aid Police and Legal Group meetings, 1989-1997; material relating to the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976, the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates Courts Act 1978 and the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984; material relating to the Local Government Bill of 1985, which became the Local Government Act 1985 and to the Legal Aid Bill of 1988, which became the Legal Aid Act 1988; response to the Home Office report on domestic violence, June 1989; material relating to the Family Courts Campaign; records of meetings, seminars and conferences; internal and external correspondence; and press cuttings.

There are references to Erin Pizzey, founder of the first shelters for abused women in and around London, who later significantly modified her views on domestic violence and became an advocate for men's rights.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid staff membership of what was then known as the Manufacturing, Science and Finance (MSF) Union.

* ONE ITEM UNDER BRANCH ARCHIVES: YNYS MÔN BRANCH ARCHIVES EMBARGOED UNTIL 2081 **

Papers donated by the Pontypridd branch of Welsh Women's Aid. They include material relating to the constitution, corporate structure, strategic development and codes of practice of Welsh Women's Aid; records of its Management Committee and of numerous departmental meetings; internal and external correspondence; accounting, fundraising and other administrative papers; and branch archives from Wales, England and Northern Ireland, all of which reference the issues affecting women and their children who access Women's Aid, such as domestic violence, social welfare and law and legislation.

Note that not all material contained within this section may be directly related to the donor (Pontypridd) branch.

Jane Hutt (b. 1949) was one of the founder members of Welsh Women's Aid and was appointed as coordinator of the group in January 1978. She is currently (September 2021) a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as Minister for Social Justice since 2021. In her capacity as Welsh Women's Aid co-ordinator, Jane Hutt is frequently referenced throughout this archive.

Papers relating to Quality Assurance standards within Welsh Women's Aid, comprising Quality Assurance Working Party reports and a Strategy for Quality Assurance dated July 2002.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's periodic three-year plans for service development.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid process of staff recruitment, including job advertisements, job descriptions and employment contracts.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's Equal Opportunies, Health and Safety and Welsh Language policies, together with a Welsh Women's Aid policy book dated May 1995.

General reports and statistics relating to Welsh Women's Aid, including research projects; completed questionnaires sent out to Women's Aid branches within Wales, together with an analysis of the results; and statistics relating to individual branches of Women's Aid within Wales.

Records of Welsh Women's Aid South Wales groups regional meetings, 1983-2000.