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Do you require support from WAITS? Our Community Integration Project Team and Refuge have capacity to support women who have experienced domestic abuse. Contact us for more information.
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WAITS are very thankful and appreciative for all the workshops and sessions offered to us. Since our last newsletter, WAITS have carried out a variety of workshops, with some amazing facilitators!
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Mel B appears in video highlighting the different stories of domestic violence
Leeds singer and former Spice Girl, Mel B, has said a video she features in which highlights the horror of domestic abuse is important because it is "every woman's story, it's everybody's voice".
Shop & Support WAITS with Easyfundraising
You can easily help raise money to support our critical work with vulnerable women, simply by doing something that we all do on a regular basis… Our shopping.
A big THANK YOU from WAITS to our supporters’
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a 20% rise in domestic abuse. WAITS staff have been operating throughout the pandemic - supporting, advocating, and empowering service users.
West Midlands Police made thousands of arrests involving domestic abuse during lockdown
With a fifth of all crime nationally during lockdown involving domestic abuse, Refuge said the problem is the "biggest social issue" facing women and girls today.
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Woman’s Hour : BBC News Feeds
- Singer-Songwriter Josie Proto, Child protection changes, Women and COP26, UTIs
- 27/07/2021
- Support for black and minoritised women facing domestic violence; South Asian women in sport; Midwives under pressure
- Amy Winehouse remembered; Canadian residential schools; Women at the Tokyo Olympics; Typewriters; Casual workwear
- Kate Shortman & Izzy Thorpe, Dame Katherine Grainger, Nicola Adams, Anna Kessel, Frankie Miren, Laura Middleton-Hughes.
