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Women's Neighbourhood Volunteering

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Women's Design Service has received three years funding from Home Office Active Community Unit to run the Women's Neighbourhood Volunteering Project (July 2002 - March 2005). The overall aim of the project is to improve volunteering opportunities in partnership with women living in the three London boroughs the project will work in: Tower Hamlets, Newham and Haringey.

KEY OBJECTIVES

1. To increase women's volunteering in London's deprived neighbourhoods through creative and innovative approaches in partnership with women and organisations
2. To enable women to volunteer, especially those who would not normally volunteer such as refugees, disabled women and older women from diverse communities
3. To enable organisations in voluntary and statutory sectors to support and develop women's volunteering

Launch of WNVP Project at Tindlemanor

The Women's Neighbourhood Volunteering Project (WNVP) is a great opportunity to engage women in the renewal of their neighbourhoods using volunteering as the vehicle. This project aims to get more women volunteering especially those women who are unlikely to get involved because of economic, cultural or social circumstances. This is a partnership project between Women's Design Service (WDS) and the Women's Resource Centre (WRC). WDS and Women's Resource Centre (WRC) are both committed to ensuring that women have a wide range of opportunities and support to be involved in the project. Our shared experience means that we are familiar with the barriers encountered by women that prevent their participation as volunteers in their community. Both WDS and WRC have sound expertise and knowledge of local and London-wide voluntary sector.

The vision of the project is a city where women are at the heart of local regeneration and enjoy a diverse range of volunteering opportunities. This project is part of the process that will achieve this vision. In regeneration and community development women have been acknowledged as the "glue that holds communities together", and in our own work, women have proved to be crucial to the success of community and regeneration initiatives. The women that will be targeted by this project are those who do not normally volunteer or who are excluded from participation such as disabled women, elderly women, young women and Black and minority ethnic women. They will live in the three London boroughs the project will work in.

This is a London-wide project, which will work in partnership with communities and organisations to develop and support women's volunteering programmes in 3 deprived neighbourhoods, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Haringey. These programmes will act as working models of good practice from which other boroughs and neighbourhoods can learn and emulate. The dissemination of the project will be across London in seminars, training, good practice briefings and a London wide-network.

Click here for Borough Sub-Groups.

Click here for Sub-Group Poster.

Click here for Women's Volunteer Network.

Click here for Women's Volunteer Network Poster.

Click here for Borough Sub-Group Membership Form.

Click here for Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form.

 

Project structure

WNVP Electronic Network

Training and Events

Article and photos from launch 26th February 2003

Presse Release 11 June 2003

Volunteering and Social Exclusion workshop notes

Volunteer Application Form

Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form

Volunteer Handbook

The project is overseen by a Steering Group, which is made up of professionals in the fields of regeneration, volunteering and community development. If you or your organisation is interested and would like to be involved in the project then contact Shahanara Begum:

Tel: 020 7490 5210
Email:[email protected]