About this event
How can the voluntary and community sector and social enterprises work together with funders and commissioners to improve the lives of women and girls?
Come and explore strategies and solutions to the challenges posed by domestic and sexual abuse, the criminal justice system, Covid 19 and strained finances.
The event offers opportunities to:
• Share learning on good practice and impactful approaches, including learning from The National Lottery Fund’s £44.5 million Women and Girls programme, and other initiatives.
• Explore solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing the sector, from partnership working, women with no recourse to public funds to increased demand and complex needs.
• Better understand the challenges faced by foundations, commissioners, policy makers and service providers
• Connect with relevant colleagues and explore how we could network going forward.
• Spark ideas for new collaborative working and systems change
If you work in policy, housing, children’s services, the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, commissioning, funding or providing services – this event is for you.
Speakers and panellists include:
Raj Holness, Survivor Campaigner Ambassador
Abdou Sidibe, Deputy Director Partnerships National Lottery Community Fund
Nicky Brennan, West Midlands Victims Commissioner
Dr Sara Scott, Director at DMSS, Learning Partner in the National Lottery Community Fund Women and Girls Initiative
Emma Crump, Head of Grants Smallwood Trust
Caroline Howe, Policy and National Programmes Manager Lloyds Bank Foundation
Khudeja Amer-Sharif, CEO, Shama Women’s Centre Leicester.
Lisa Thompson – RSVP CEO Birmingham
This event has been co-created and will be co-delivered by the following organisations:
The National Lottery Community Fund, DMSS Research, Coventry Rape And Sexual Assault Centre, Birmingham and Solihull Women’s Aid, Pathway Domestic Abuse Project Staffordshire, The Zinthyia Trust Leicester, New Dawn New Day, Leicester and Nottingham Women’s Centre.
We understand that some of the themes and content we'll be covering during this event can be triggering for anyone who has had, or is currently having, corresponding experiences in their own life. We are sharing this so that you can make the best choices for yourself, please feel free to join us at any point of the agenda, including leaving and returning if that is best for you.
We look forward to seeing you.
The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest community funder in the UK – and is proud to award money raised by National Lottery players to communities across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Since June 2004, we have made over 200,000 grants and awarded over £9 billion.
