Ways of getting involved and having your say…
Voices of Victory events
Voice of Victory: Women Empowering Women – Tara Hammett
Tara Hammett is one of Wales’s Leading Personal Trainers and will be talking about being your best when experiencing, Perimenopause and Menopause.
Date: Wednesday 8th December, 6pm – 7:30pm
Chair: Vicky Lang
Facilitated on: Microsoft Teams
This session is open to members of the Ask Me Community, Survivor Network or survivors accessing specialist services, to register please speak to your contact at Welsh Women’s Aid or your support worker.
Voice of Victory: Women Empowering Women – Buckso Dhillon-Woolley, Living life authentically ME!
Date: Monday 6th December, 6pm – 7:30pm
Chair: Vicky Lang
Facilitated on: Microsoft Teams
This session is open to members of the Ask Me Community, Survivor Network or survivors accessing specialist services, to register please speak to your contact at Welsh Women’s Aid or your support worker.
Voice of Victory: Women Empowering Women – Amy Powell & Johanna Robinson
Regional Coordinator and National Advisor of VAWDASV in Wales.
Date: Thursday 16th January, 6pm – 7:30pm
Chair: Vicky Lang
Facilitated on: Microsoft Teams
This session is open to members of the Ask Me Community, Survivor Network or survivors accessing specialist services, to register please speak to your contact at Welsh Women’s Aid or your support worker.
Voice of Victory: Women Empowering Women – Mamatha isha Sumah aka Maisha
Reclaiming who I am.
Date: Monday 20th January, 6pm – 7:30pm
Chair: Vicky Lang
Facilitated on: Microsoft Teams
This session is open to members of the Ask Me Community, Survivor Network or survivors accessing specialist services, to register please speak to your contact at Welsh Women’s Aid or your support worker.
How we must all play our part: A public health approach to halting the epidemic in gender based violence.
The Senedd Committee welcomes Survivors to engage on this piece of work over a period of 2 years. This is the first report constructed with great recommendations. The network look forwarded to completing this piece of work and the impact Survivors voices can have when engagement is completed in a meaningful way.
Welsh Women’s Aid are heavily involved in this piece of ongoing work with the Senedd and would like to thank the Network for engaging.
Experiences of women who sell or exchange sex with motherhood
January 2024
CSE Aware are inviting you to participate in a short anonymous survey asking about the experiences of women who sell or exchange sex with motherhood. Women who sell or exchange sex have highlighted motherhood as a common experience, however they’ve found there is very limited information about the challenges women face and strategies they use when it comes to having children.
The next CSE Aware topic will be motherhood and to help us build a better picture of women’s experiences, we have designed a survey which has the option to respond as either a support worker or as a woman with lived experience. Please note colleagues can respond even if they have limited experience of supporting women involved in selling or exchanging sex.
The survey can be accessed on this page. Responses are anonymous and it only takes a couple of minutes to participate.
Brainkind Report and Research
Groundbreaking research suggests that 1 in 2 survivors of domestic abuse in England and Wales may be living with a brain injury.
As you may know, for the past year, Brainkind – formerly The Disabilities Trust – has undertaken research into the prevalence of brain injuries in domestic abuse survivors across the UK. This is the first research of its kind in Europe, and Brainkind are incredibly proud to have done this in collaboration with domestic abuse services and the people they support across England and Wales.
Brainkind are very pleased to announce that they have now concluded the research, and are launching the findings in a new paper, ‘“Too Many to Count…” Brain Injury in The Context of Domestic Abuse’.
Key findings –
- Brainkind reveals that 1 in 2 people who have experienced domestic abuse in England and Wales may be living with a brain injury
- 80% of participants who had experienced domestic abuse had suffered a serious blow to the head.
- 75% of participants who had experienced domestic abuse had been held at least once in a way that prevented them from breathing.
- People who screened positive for a history indicative of brain injury were more likely to experience moderate to severe post-concussion symptoms, low mood and post-traumatic stress.
Please support this work by –
- Downloading a copy of the report – available at https://www.brainkind.org/toomanytocount
- Quote tweet and share Brainkind’s content on Twitter/X and LinkedIn – the handle is @Brainkind
- Talk about this report and the findings in any meetings you are in!
- Share this with your networks!
Temporary Accommodation and Visitor Levy Survey
The Welsh Government are proposing a new visitor levy bill, which will mean that visitors to Wales will have to pay a small overnight levy when staying in temporary accommodation. This includes:
- Hotels
- BnB’s
- Hostels
- Self-catered lets
- Other holiday accommodation
To read more about this proposal from Welsh Government, click here.
It is vital therefore that research is undertaken to find out the potential barriers and risks to Survivors, those whom might be fleeing to Wales and provided with temporary accommodation.
To access the survey, please click here. Please download and complete anonymously then forward to [email protected].
