Dangos 260 canlyniad

Material relating to children and families, particularly those housed within Welsh Women's Aid refuges. Includes details relating to the rôle of the childworker within Welsh Women's Aid and records of childworker meetings. Press cuttings (of which there are a significant number) kept in separate folder; printed booklets and leaflets kept in separate envelopes.

Material relating to publicity and the media as it relates to Welsh Women's Aid, including Publicity Strategy Team records (kept in separate envelope); press releases; correspondence, largely with newspapers and television companies; press cuttings (kept in separate envelope); and guidelines on public speaking and how to deal with the media. A number of items relating 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, are kept in a separate envelope.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid training of its staff, largely comprising details of training courses and workshops.

Academic dissertations, research projects and reports primarily relating to domestic violence and other issues facing women. Some of the studies relate specifically to Women's Aid.

Material relating to women's rights and issues within Britain and worldwide, including health and wellbeing. Material of a similar nature is to be found throughout this archive, but note especially under Domestic violence/Violence against women.

Material relating to International Women's Day 1981, 1988 and 1992.

Material relating to law and legislation and the police as they apply to the work of Welsh Women's Aid. Includes material relating to the Family Law Bill of 1995 and subsequent Family Law Act of 1996, and also to the ill-fated Family Homes and Domestic Violence Bill of 1995. Welsh Women's Aid's response to the Family Law Bill 1995 forms part of the Police and Legal Group mailings (kept in separate envelope). Press cuttings, of which there are a significant number, kept in separate folder; printed booklets and leaflets kept in separate envelope.

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.

Material relating to the establishment and upkeep of Welsh Women's Aid's telephone helpline, including project application for a 24-hour national Women's Aid helpline; record of helpline meeting; and plea to help fundraise in order to finance the helpline.

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.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid accounts, largely comprising financial spreadsheets or their equivalent.

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

Material comprising Welsh Women's Aid constitutions, manifesto, aims and objectives and draft rules. Some of the earlier undated material appears to have been compiled around the time Welsh Women's Aid was established during the late 1970s.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's codes of practice and its Codes of Practice Working Party, including office policy and procedures manuals dated November 1994 and October 2001; details of legal structures and constitutions dated July 1993; codes of practice implementation policy dated April 1993; eviction policy dated September 1999 and another undated; and undated disciplinary policy.

Material relating to the corporate structure and strategy of Welsh Women's Aid, including early documents discussing proposed aims of Women's Aid, practical steps towards setting up a group, etc; Welsh Women's Aid Corporate Strategy dated May 2002; material relating to the Corporate Plan Working Party, including correspondence and records of meetings; material relating to the structural evaluation of Welsh Women's Aid, including report (May 2001) and review (January 2003), together with related correspondence.

Material relating to planned proposals for service provision and development within Welsh Women's Aid, including reports, questionnaires and records of meetings.

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.

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

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.