Happy International Women's Day from the Women & Girls Alliance Leeds! 💚💜

🟪Fri 8/03 is #InternationalWomensDay2024
Join the celebrations across #Leeds 🎉

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It's almost International Women's Day 2024 and there's exciting events happening across the city to celebrate! Join our partners Getaway Girls at Leeds Playhouse on Saturday 9th March, as they host a celebration for girls and young women 11-18!

Join Mental Health Mates (Leeds), the free and inclusive community peer support group, for an International Women's Day weekend walk around Roundhay Park! 🚶‍♀️💜

The event aims to celebrate and connect with the wonderful women and organisations from across Leeds.

We’re #Hiring !

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Women’s Centre and Service Delivery to play a pivotal role in leading and managing our centres in Humberside and the East Riding.

📍Hull
⏰ Full-time, 37 hours
❗️Closing date: 11 March 2024

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This #InternationalWomensDay on Friday 8th March, join us at our charity shop from 10am-4pm for a showcase of books, films, and CDs written, produced, and performed by talented women! ✍️📽️

Charity shop address: 102 New Road Side, Horsforth, LS18 4QB.

#IWD24 #LeedsWomensAid

This fantastic event, aiming to start a conversation between culturally diverse communities and healthcare professionals, is being held by our Women Friendly Leeds movement tomorrow!

Great visit at the weekend from West Yorkshire’s Deputy Mayor for Policing & Crime Alison Lowe and Cllr Heselwood to @Womenfriendlyls' Women’s Night Safe Space, showing support and solidarity in making Leeds feel and be safer for women and girls!

Learn more about the WNSS bus at: womenfriendlyleeds.org/womens-night-s…

Angela wishes everyone a safe festive holiday🎄
🪩If U feel unsafe or unwell #AskForAngelaLeeds
🪩Plan ahead, use the Fab, Free & Inclusive WalkSafe app, it has details about participating venues & loads of other features
🪩Safer journeys in 2024!
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Does Leeds need a Women's Centre? Have your say! Find out more about the consultation in this thread.

There's also an online survey where you can have your say: surveymonkey.com/r/PKP7Q68

Please share with women in your networks! We want to hear from as many women as possible.

Today is the last day of 16 Days of Activism, we hope you've enjoyed Angela's takeover! ⁠
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’Switch On to Women’s Safety’ is a free course for men to understand the issue of women’s safety & explore helpful ways to tackle the issue and be an active upstander. #16DaysOfActivism

Ask for Ani is a codeword scheme that provides a safe, discreet and confidential way for victims of domestic abuse to access immediate help from their local pharmacy or job centre.
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Here are some quotes from women who are part of our Culturally Diverse Women’s Hub, about women’s safety and experiences of being women from culturally diverse backgrounds. The hub meets regularly to discuss what issues are important to them. #16DaysOfActivism

Project ‘Safe Place’ at National Express sends a clear message about zero tolerance to sexual harassment and provides a number to text if you need help while on the coaches find out more at the National Express Website at nationalexpress.com/en/help/safety…

This is our fourth and final Ask For Angela beer mat design. See if you can spot all four in venues around the city soon!
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Here’s another one of our Ask For Angela beer mats, keep a look out for them appearing on venues across Leeds soon!
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Each beer mat will feature Angela asking questions about safety, and will feature a QR code to download the WalkSafe app on the back!
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Check out the #AskForAngelaLeeds messages on beer mats coming to a venue near you soon! #16DaysOfActivism

Here are some quotes from students that our Women Friendly Leeds movement engaged with at Universities and Colleges around Leeds. It’s clear that women’s safety is an issue that students who were spoke to feel strongly about. #16DaysOfActivism

Women’s Night Safe Space won the BACIL (Business Against Crime) Award 2023 for Outstanding Night Time Contribution to Female Safety. Come visit the bus on Saturday nights at Corn Exchange for non-judgemental support or a friendly face!