[WiL e-updates] WiL e-update Thursday 26th March 2009 (12)

[WiL Updates]

26th March 2009

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LAST CHANCE - Survey Closes 28th March 2009:
* Rape Crisis Centre Survey On Intimate Partner Sexual Violence -
http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?p=2041
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Information added to Women in London 25th March 2009
* Index of links to new entries: http://www.womeninlondon.org.uk

Events
* Masculine Law - A Women's Action Network event 23rd April

Notices
* Daycare Trust respond to Grandparents Plus report

Training
* Art into Construction - by WAMT and Hand Built

Vacancies
* Refuge Vacancies x 3 8th April 2009

Info Added
* Index of information added to website February 2009 archived
* Index of information added to website January 2009 archived

WiL Calendars - Updated
* Events Calendar
* Funding Calendar
* Training Calendar
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New on IWD 2009 blog http://iwd2009.wordpress.com

* International conference on secularism and women's rights (report)

http://iwd2009.wordpress.com/index/
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New on Women's Training and Funding (WiLT)

* FaithAction Events
* REFUGEE COUNCIL CONFERENCE: INTEGRATION: BUILDING A LIFE IN THE UK -
2 WEEKS TO GO
* 'Sharing, Growing and Knowing'
* National Centre of Domestic Violence
* London Development Agency News Release: Londoners can train as
sports officials in 2012 Games run-up
* Free workshop for trustees on contracts and commissioning
* What is your financial dream worth to you?
* coaching and training information from childcare plus now called
Bernard Chase
* BT Community Connections 9th June and 5 Jan 2010
* Learning Launchpad Fund - 31 March, 11 June, 3 Sept, 24 Nov, 16 Feb
* Chelsea Building Society Charitable Foundation - 2nd April
* Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust - 6 April (Ireland) 27 April
(other)
* UN Trust Fund To End Violence Against Women Call For Proposals - 17
April
Links at
http://freecharity.org.uk/pipermail/womeninlondontraining/2009-March/date.html

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New on womensgrid http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk
(women's news and views UK and Ireland)

* Young women and their relationships into adulthood - SRF Seminar -
28th March 2009
* New Central London Lesbian Social Group in meeting in Camden.
* Trustees And Treasurer Needed - Women in Prison
* Women's Housing & Resettlement Worker - Trust - 30th March 2009
* Women's Group Worker - Trust - 30th March 2009
* Advocate for women in the criminal justice system - Corston
Independent Funders Coalition
* UK 'lags behind' in helping poor families
* Bordering on Concern: Child Trafficking in Wales
* Northern Ireland abortion guidelines published
* More than 60 reports of domestic abuse are received every day by
police in Northern Ireland
* Chelmsford Women's Aid grant will maintain services in Maldon
district
* Refuge to open in North Norfolk - and supporters can help with a
gift to furnish the new flats
* County cash secures North Devon Women's Aid service
* Rape: Without warning
* Rape Crisis England and Wales response to Government £1.6 million
* £1.6 million for Rape Charities
* Hull Rape Crisis looks for new home
* Only 15 per cent of rape allegations reach the courts in south
Buckinghamshire, figures obtained by the Bucks Free Press show
* A support service for rape victims in Sussex is struggling to cope
with the huge demand for help
* Job vacancy at Tender
* 5 vacancies - Manchester Women's Aid - 25th March 2009
* Mothers work harder than fathers
* Single mothers to be forced to name fathers on birth certificates
* Why New Labour wants cheap labour in the name of eradicating poverty
* Welfare Reform Bill risks penalising the poorest single parents
* Damning IPCC report into police rape investigation
* Act now to protect women from attack
* If Sapphire had been created to protect this rapist, they couldn't
have done a better job
* Scotland to have national unit to investigate sex crimes
* Rape Crisis Centres will not be funded centrally says Harriet Harman
* More funding to help improve the emergency centres that help victims
of sexual assault announced by Health Minister Ann Keen
* TUC Women's Conference supports motion against the commodification
of and the objectification of women's bodies
* False debate on sex work
* Tackling the commercial side of child sex abuse
* Hidden and invisible? Survey for carers to voice their concerns -
closes 21st March 2009
* Is the Welfare Reform Bill compatible with human rights?
* Welfare reform campaign: Update
* Information added to Women in London up to 10th March 2009

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New on womensphere http://womensphere.wordpress.com
(international women's news and views)

* Women in the US Need to Know Their New Jobless Benefits
* "Women Need a Bigger Voice at the G20 Summit" Q&A
* Women in the News - The IPS Gender Wire (24th March 2009)

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