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Welsh Women's Aid Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales)
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Domestic violence/Violence against women

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

Material relating to domestic violence and violence towards women in general, including leaflets and posters advertising resource contact details; reports, analyses and parliamentary inquiries; and guideline publications relating to issues of violence and abuse, including those involving minority or marginalised groups such as lesbian, transgender, ethnic minority and Traveller women.

Domestic violence/Violence against women

Material relating to domestic violence and violence towards women in general, including a significant number of press cuttings dating from the 1970s to the 2000s; Welsh Women's Aid press releases; copies of parliamentary debates and reports, 1975-1983; and material relating to the Working Group on Domestic Violence and Violence against Women in Wales and to Women's Aid Domestic Violence Forums. A small number of items relate 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.

Domestic violence/Violence against women

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.

Employment Sub-Group

Records of Welsh Women's Aid's Employment Sub-Group meetings, 1987-2001, together with Welsh Women's Aid employment records, January 1989 - November 1997, and other general material relating to the Employment Sub-Group, the latter kept in marked envelope. Some of the items record joint meetings between the Employment Sub-Group and other groups within Welsh Women's Aid.

Equal Opportunities policies

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's Equal Opportunities policy and to the more general concept of equal status and consideration for minority or marginalised groups. It includes items relating to Welsh Women's Aid's Equal Opportunities Special Interest Group and Lesbian Support Group, together with material which addresses issues and circumstances surrounding people from black, Asian or ethnic minority groups and disabled people.

Funding and fundraising

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's ongoing strategies to obtain funding for the continued running and upkeep of refuges, employment of staff, etc, mostly comprising grant applications made to national bodies such as the National Lottery, Children in Need and the Burson Marsteller Initiative as well as to more local organisations and councils; together with reports, records of meetings, etc of the Women's Aid Funding Strategy Working Party.

Funding and fundraising

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.

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