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

** 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 the collaboration between Welsh Women's Aid and the Women's Archive of Wales (Archif Menywod Cymru) and between Welsh Women's Aid and the 'Mapping Wales' project, the latter being a Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum collaborative research project based at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. The Women's Archive of Wales were to obtain a copious amount of records from Welsh Women's Aid, records which now comprise this present archive.

Academic dissertation titled 'Welsh Women's Aid: An Evaluation of the Work of the Organisation', published October 1994 by Nickie Charles of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at University of Wales Swansea.

Material discussing the proposed celebration of Welsh Women's Aid's twenty-first anniversary in 1999.

Internal mailing relating to proposed celebrations to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Welsh Women's Aid.

A series of bilingual A3-sized laminated posters relating to events marking the fortieth anniversary of Welsh Women's Aid (1978-2018).

Material relating to the Millenium Volunteers project in relation to Welsh Women's Aid.

Copies of Welsh Women's Aid newsletters, 1983-1998, primarily the bilingual newsletter Lloches, together with what appears to have been its predecessor, Barn Merched/Women's View.

Material relating to the setting up and maintenance of Welsh Women's Aid's website and email facilities, known as 'She:Mail', the items largely comprising questionnaires sent out to Welsh Women's Aid branches regarding information to be included on the website, together with a printed-out user's manual and records relating to the Welsh Women's Aid Website Working Party.

Details of insurance policies taken out by Welsh Women's Aid, 1989-2001.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid training of its staff, largely comprising details of training courses and workshops, together with course feedback in the form of questionnaires and reports.

Material relating to the establishment of the Welsh Women's Aid Trust and of Welsh Women's Aid as a registered charity, including legal declarations, with accompanying solicitors' correspondence; list of Welsh Women's Aid trustees; agenda of the inaugural meeting of the Welsh Women's Aid Trust; and printed booklet titled 'Responsibilities of Charity Trustees'. The undated item - a photocopied page from a printed source detailing the nature of 'trusts' - is annotated with the following: 'WWA Trust has now dissolved'; however, there is no apparent indication of how and when this occurred.

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

Printed documents and correspondence relating to Friends Provident personal pension plans.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid accounts, including auditors' reports, spreadsheets, invoices, expense forms and individual Women's Aid branch accounts.

General administrative papers of Welsh Women's Aid, including diaries, 1985-2003; details of leasehold of refuge premises; Welsh Women's Aid membership agreements; individual refuge rules and guidelines; information leaflets, booklets and handbooks; lists of Welsh Women's Aid groups; staff duty rotas; and other general administrative material.

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 Oaklands Women's Centre, situated in Glasbury, Herefordshire, which was given to Welsh Women's Aid as a respite centre for women and their children living in refuges in Wales. Items include legal documents regarding the handing over of the property to Welsh Women's Aid; constitution of Oaklands Women's Centre; draft advertisements for job vacancies relating to the project; and records of meetings discussing Oaklands Women's Centre.

Material relating to publicity and the media as it relates to Welsh Women's Aid, including items relating to Welsh Women's Aid's Publicity Strategy Team; press releases issued by Welsh Women's Aid; material relating to media broadcasts and social events which highlight Welsh Women's Aid's work and/or women's issues; publicity resource pack for the use of Welsh Women's Aid groups; and guidelines on how to make the most of media opportunities.