Women Accede

The aim of Women Accede is to prioritise the needs and aspirations of women from all backgrounds, especially those from Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) background and support them in ways they can’t themselves.

Activities include:

• Targeted advice and information dissemination
• Health and wellbeing promotion
• Raising awareness about domestic violence
• Promoting volunteering and establishing a befriending scheme for BME older persons
• Working with mainstream services to improve outcome for BME women
• Using research to produce the evidence for our work

The activities to be covered by the grant include older people befriending scheme and coffee morning both of which were identified through working with our older people. The grant will cover these two activities in terms of venue hire, promotional work, volunteer expenses and regular coffee, tea and biscuits.