Category Archives: Midlands East

28 January 2015 ~ Small Grants Funding – Extended Deadline – Nottingham Women’s Centre

We have extended our deadline for applications to the small grants funding. The new deadline for applications is now Wednesday 28 January.

The small grants funding is aimed at supporting small, grassroots organisations from Nottingham who are working with women and LGBT people. The activities funded by the grants should be around at least one of the following:

    1. Providing Information, Advice and Guidance
    2. Building Skills and Confidence
    3. Providing Physical and Virtual Space

You can apply for between £100 – £350.

The grants will be awarded in February 2015.

Download the guidance and application form(*) to apply or for more information or to talk about your project please contact Joanne on joanne@nottinghamwomenscentre.com

(*) Download from http://www.nottinghamwomenscentre.com/small-grants-funding-last-few-days-to-apply/

January 16, 2015

Places still available on courses at Nottingham Women’s Centre

We’ve got nearly 30 different courses and activities happening this term and it’s not too late to get involved.

We still have places on some of our popular courses and activities including:

  • Women and Social Media
  • Woman and Confidence Building
  • Woman and Psychology
  • Functional English
  • Women and IT

It’s also not too late to join activities like Make and Do, Singing and our new Life Writing (memoir) Workshops.

For more information,

Check http://www.nottinghamwomenscentre.com/places-still-available-on-courses/

January 16, 2015

17 December 2014 ~ The New Futures Project Christmas Appeal – Leicestershire & Rutland

We support sexually exploited women/children and are raising funds for Christmas gifts. For many this is the only gift they will receive.

The New Futures Project is a charity which supports sexually exploited women and children from Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, we have been provided this support for almost 20 years. The women and children we support experience many difficulties including trafficking, homelessness, domestic violence and poverty, neglect and physical and emotional abuse. Many of our service users are or have been looked after children and are often estranged from their families, this can make Christmas a particularly difficult time for them.

Our project is divided into two teams one for adults and one for young people these teams are staffed by qualified and registered social workers with many years of experience in working with this service user group. Our team work closely with partnership agencies such as social care and the police in order to safeguard our service users and assist in prosecuting offenders.

For the Past 14 years we have held a Christmas celebration for our service users where we provide Christmas dinner, play games and Santa is there to provide a gift. For the majority of our service users this is the only celebration and gift they will receive.

This year due to funding cuts and limited donations we are struggling to provide this much appreciated service.

Any funding that we receive will be used to purchase much needed gifts such as gloves, socks and toiletries and to provide food for the day.

This project will only be funded if at least £500 is pledged by 17th December 2014.

http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/the-new-futures-project-christmas-appeal

December 12, 2014

28 February 2015 13:30 ~ No Platforming of Radical Feminists – A Talk by Julie Bindel – Nottingham

Julie Bindel will be talking about the No Platforming of radical feminists, followed by questions and discussions.

The event is organised by RadFem Collective, in partnership with the gender-critical transgender Miranda Yardley.

Please note this is not a panel discussion.

There will be plenty of time for questions and discussions.

This is a mixed event and everyone is welcome, whether you’re a man, women, transgender or those who identify as neither.

And you are also welcome whatever your views.

The ticket price is purely to cover costs such as room and PA hire. Everyone involved are volunteers.

To buy a ticket follow this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-platforming-of-radical-feminists-tickets-14635614517

Check for updates at https://www.facebook.com/events/390835357740611

December 8, 2014

21 November 2014 19:00 ~ Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self – Nottingham Women’s Centre

Unitl 20:30 at Nottingham Woman’s Centre
30 Chaucer Street, Nottingham NG1 5LP

Cost – Free Ticket – donations welcome on the day (* book online)

This is a talk by Kajsa Ekis Ekman’s about her book Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self.

“Being and Being Bought is a riveting analysis of prostitution and surrogacy that shatters the great wall of lies about these two institutions. Brilliantly analyzing the parallels, Kajsa Ekis Ekman wages a multi-pronged attack on sexism and classism that leaves the reader with hope for change. If you’ve ever wondered how to respond to those who say there are no victims in prostitution or what to say when someone proposes surrogacy as a solution to childlessness – this book is a must-read.”

— Melissa Farley, PhD, clinical psychologist and author of many articles and books about prostitution and trafficking.

Stockholm born, Kajsa Ekis Ekman writes for the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter and is on the editorial collective of the anarchist magazine Brand. She has an MA in Literature from Södertörn University and is author of Skulden – eurokrisen sedd från Aten (Debt as a Weapon: The euro crisis seen from Athens, Leopard Förlag, 2013).

She has founded the network, Feminists Against Surrogacy and the climate action group, Klimax. In 1998, Sweden passed ground-breaking legislation criminalizing the purchase of sexual services which sought to curb demand and support women exiting the sex industry. Grounded in the reality of the violence and abuse inherent in prostitution—and reeling from the death of a friend to prostitution in Spain—Kajsa Ekis Ekman exposes the many lies in the ‘sex work’ scenario. Trade unions aren’t trade unions. Groups for prostituted women are simultaneously groups for brothel owners. And prostitution is always presented from a woman’s point of view. The men who buy sex are left out.

Drawing on Marxist and feminist analyses, Ekis Ekman argues that the Self must be split from the body to make it possible to sell your body without selling yourself. The body becomes sex. Sex becomes a service. The story of the sex worker says: the Split Self is not only possible, it is the ideal.

Turning to the practice of surrogate motherhood, Kajsa Ekis Ekman identifies the same components: that the woman is neither connected to her own body nor to the child she grows in her body and gives birth to. Surrogacy becomes an extended form of prostitution. In this capitalist creation story, the parent is the one who pays. The product sold is not sex but a baby. Ekis Ekman asks: why should this not be called child trafficking?

This brilliant exposé is written with a razor-sharp intellect and disarming wit and will make us look at prostitution and surrogacy and the parallels between them in a new way.

(*) Book your place via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/being-and-being-bought-tickets-13553754645

See also: 20 November 2014 19:00 ~ Launch of Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self – Housmans – London http://www.womensgrid.org.uk/news/?p=3967

November 14, 2014