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Swansea Women’s Aid are a Covid Safe organisation. We are following Government guidelines at our premises in order to protect our service users, staff and volunteers and to help keep Covid-19 infection rates in Wales low. For this reason, we are currently unable to offer Drop In sessions at our central office. However, we remain available to help you. Our support ...
We are delighted to inform you that Swansea Women’s Aid has been awarded a grant from The National Lottery Community Fund. This award will make an incredible difference to our work and those that rely upon it within our community. In a difficult year, the UK has seen an increase in incidents of domestic abuse. We feel it is more vital ...
As of today (14/09/2020) The Welsh Government have announced that face masks are compulsory in public indoor spaces in Wales. This means that face masks now must be worn in Swansea Women’s office by staff, women and children over the age of 11 attending appointments. Due to this, we ask and encourage women to wear face coverings where possible to ...
Update 7th July 2020: Our central office and staff are set up and fully equipped to adhere to the government’s latest Covid-19 workplace guidance. Furthermore, we are pleased to announce that we are now in a position to offer a limited amount of face to face appointments. Please speak to a support worker to discuss your individual/immediate needs. We want to reassure our ...
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http://swanseawomensaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Mobile-phone-appeal.mp4 Having to stay at home under the current circumstances can be a lonely and solitary time for many, However, it is made even harder for some of our service users who do not have access to a mobile phone. For many of us at this time, our phones and other devices are our only access to the outside world, but ...
Some helpful advice and guidence from Welsh Women’s Aid for family and friends on supporting someone who is experencing domestic abuse. WWA-Tilt-and-Turn-ENG ...
For more details visit: http://safelives.org.uk/news-views/domestic-abuse-and-covid-19 ...
We are following government guidelines to try and delay the onset of widespread infection of Covid-19. For this reason, we are currently unable to offer Drop In sessions or pre-planned appointments at our offices. Our support workers are busy contacting our service users with booked appointments to offer phone support. Of course, this may not be appropriate for some, so please ...
Swansea Women’s Aid used popular Swansea bar Noah’s Yard’s daily-changing sign to highlight violence against women as a part of our International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence activities. Swansea Women’s Aid decided to use the sign, which has become a local icon, to raise awareness of violence against women. The ...
Our SWAN Project is growing and we need volunteers who can offer time and support to a service that makes a crucial contribution to the wellbeing of vulnerable women in the community. Apply through our website or contact the team.
Thank you so much for your response to our previous appeal. We are once again asking for your support and donations for our SWAN service. We are very grateful.
Trustee Volunteer Vacancies
Swansea Women’s Aid Trustee x 3
Location Swansea
Are you looking for a way to give something back, or make a difference to your community? You may come from the professional, business or care communities and/or have benefitted from Women’s Aid services yourself in the past. If you have the time, relevant experience and share our values, you can help make a real difference to women and children in Swansea. You don’t have to be an expert in domestic abuse or have Trustee experience to be part of our valued team, as induction and full training is given.
Swansea Women’s Aid (SWA), est. 1975, provides temporary accommodation and/or support to women and their children in Swansea who have suffered or are experiencing domestic violence and abuse, in all its forms. Our specialist staff work with women and children in a number of ways, both inhouse and within the community, to help them recover from violence and trauma and to move forward with their lives. As you will no doubt be aware, the Covid situation heightened the risk of domestic abuse. SWA staff and volunteers worked tirelessly throughout all lockdowns, coping with the increased demand. Sadly, demand remains high and we must look to the future to grow our services to meet this increased need. Additionally, we continue our work to educate and inform the wider public, the media etc. with the long term aim of improving attitude, behaviour and the social landscape, for women and children and their rights to safety.
The Trustee Board works very closely with the Chief Executive Officer and senior staff of SWA to develop future strategy and to ensure good management and governance of our services. Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome including those who can demonstrate experience and skills in one or more of the following areas:
• Commercial experience
• SME owner
• HR /Employment Law
• Welsh Language
• Service delivery to families e.g. Social Worker
• Digital Marketing
Trustees work on a voluntary basis and are not expected to contribute financially. Board meetings take place 6 times a year in the evening in Swansea and or virtually as required. Additionally, Trustees may meet a couple of times per year to discuss specific matters such as strategic planning. Depending on expertise, a Board member may be asked to assist with sub committees, projects or problems, but this is not obligatory.
Interested?
The Board works as a team and we pool our expertise. Experience as a service user is as valuable as business experience. So if you feel you have something to offer to help make a real difference to women and children’s lives, please email Kerry Jones, Office Manager at kjones@swanseawa.org.uk to request an information pack which contains further information about the role and the application process.
Please note that these roles are exempt under the Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1 and therefore we can only accept applications from women. We are however keen to improve the diversity of our Board and particularly welcome applications from women in black and ethnic minority, LGBTQ+ and the disability communities.
Please note our initial deadline to receive completed applications is Friday 27th September 2021 and interviews are likely to be held mid October 2021.
Ask Me Project
We want to help end abuse by supporting communities to give a better response to survivors but also to be proactive in finding ways to challenge unhelpful myths, attitudes and stereotypes that enable and normalise abuse.
We do this by providing free training and ongoing support that helps community members to start conversations about abuse, know where help is available, share their knowledge with others and to know how to give a supportive, helpful response to anyone who shares their experience of abuse.
After the course, community members are free to spend as much or as little time on activism around this, all we ask is that they fill in a short questionnaire once a month to let us know what they’ve been up to. To register for a course you need to be 18 or over and live, study, work or volunteer in a funded area. Please note, we cannot accept applications from outside Wales.
Our next course will be an online course running over 7 sessions. Please only register if you are available for all of the session dates below. Please note that these are dates for people who live, work or volunteer in Swansea or Neath PT:
Session 1 – Thursday 7th October (5:30pm to 7:00pm)
Session 2 – Thursday 14th October (5:30pm to 7:00pm)
Session 3 – Thursday 21st October (5:30pm to 7:00pm)
Session 4 – Thursday 28th October (5:30pm to 7:00pm)
Session 5 – Thursday 4th November (5:30pm to 7:00pm)
Session 6 – Thursday 11th November (5:30pm to 7:00pm)
Session 7 – Thursday 18th November (5:30pm to 7:00pm)
For more information please see the link below
www.welshwomensaid.org.uk/what-we-do/change-that-lasts/ask-me-project/ask-me-online-training/
Ask Me Online Training - Welsh Women's Aid
www.welshwomensaid.org.uk
Our online Ask Me course is made up of 7 modules and is a mix of independent self-study materials for you to look at in your own time and Zoom workshops. For each module, you will be sent a PDF with i...Our SWAN project is in need of the following items:
- Size 14 Maternity Clothing
- Newborn clothing
- Unused toiletries
- Unused makeup
Any donations are appreciated, please contact Katie on 07977911481.
Welsh Women's Aid Focus Group on Racialised Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
As part of Welsh Women’s Aid’s #NoGreyArea campaign to tackle workplace sexual harassment, we will be running a series of focus groups that look at how sexual harassment intersects with other forms of discrimination.
The first of these focus groups will run in partnership with Race Equality First, on 13th September at 10:30am at Butetown Community Centre.
At this session, attendees will have the opportunity to talk in confidence about their experiences of racialised sexual harassment at work.
If you would like to attend to share your experiences, please click here
We would be grateful if you could share details of the focus group with your networks.
Ask Me is expanding to new parts of Wales, next course starts 24th August! (gweler isod am Gymraeg)
Ask Me provides free training for community members who want to help end violence against women in their communities.
The next course is an online course starting on the 24th August and available to community members based in Cardiff, The Vale of Glamorgan, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil.
For more information or to register, visit www.welshwomensaid.org.uk/what-we-do/change-that-lasts/south-wales/ask-me-project/
Mae Gofyn i Fi wedi ehangu i ardaloedd newydd yng Nghymru ac mae’r cwrs nesaf yn dechrau ar y 24ain Awst!
Mae Gofyn i Fi yn darparu hyfforddiant am ddim ar gyfer aelodau’r cymuned sy’n eisiau helpu rhoi diwedd i drais yn erbyn menywod. Mae Gofyn i Fi nawr ar gael i pobl sy’n fyw, gweithio, astudio neu gwirfoddoli yng Nghaerdydd, Fro Morgannwg, Abertawe, Castell-nedd a Port Talbot, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr, Rhondda Cynon Taf a Merthyr Tudful.
Am fwy o wybodaeth neu i gofrestru ewch i www.welshwomensaid.org.uk/cy/what-we-do/change-that-lasts/south-wales/prosiect-gofyn-i-fi/
Prosiect Gofyn i fi - Welsh Women's Aid
www.welshwomensaid.org.uk
Yn aml, cymunedau yw’r cyntaf i wybod am drais yn erbyn menywod, cam-drin domestig a thrais rhywiol ond dyw’r ffordd rydyn ni’n ymateb ddim bob amser yn helpu. Mae cynllun Gofyn i fi yn awyddus ...An interesting read about women's uniform rights at the workplace. "Whether it's a requirement to wear a skirt, high heels or make-up, or a lack of appropriate PPE that fits, women continue to be disadvantaged by outdated attitudes in the workplace." Natasha Davies, Chwarae Teg
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58086061
Sexism: Can my employer make me wear make-up and heels?
www.bbc.co.uk
Many workers still deal with sexism because of the clothing they have to wear, unions say.