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The Women & Girls Initiative

The Women & Girls Initiative

The National Lottery Community Fund has engaged the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, DMSS and CWASU (the partners), to support the Women and Girls Initiative (WGI). The partners will support the Fund’s WGI grant holders to capture and share learning, develop a community of networked services that is stronger and has greater influence.

About the Women and Girls Initiative
An introduction to the Women and Girls Initiative Learning and Impact Services.
WGI Synthesis Report #1: ‘The Women and Girls Initiative’
Sanctuary and freedom: the transformational power of spaces for women and girls
Transforming the lives of women and girls by creating the right physical and emotional spaces - a new evidence briefing. 
Preventing another serial killer?
A briefing demonstrating how women’s support services can help stop perpetrators in their tracks.
WGI Synthesis Report #2: ‘Learning from a turbulent time’
Supporting staff in the women and girls’ sector
This blog reflects on what some WGI projects were doing to increase support for staff and volunteer wellbeing during the unprecedented early...
Continuing to learn from the Women and Girls Initiative
Three more briefings are now available from the WGI Learning and impact services.
WGI Descriptor Report: ‘Diving into the Women and Girls Initiative’
Two new briefings from the Women and Girls Initiative
Two briefings - on residential services and work with young women and girls – are now available.
Responding to and learning from changes during Covid-19
The fifth and final blog from the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic sharing learning on the sector’s strengths and challenges experienced...
A woman’s place is in the (on-line) world?
This blog from June 2020 considers some of the benefits and disadvantages of technology for women and girls, as online communication became...
Virtual support and vulnerability in the women and girls sector
This blog shared how projects were adapting to lockdown restrictions in the early days of COVID-19, providing online, remote and socially distanced support...
Covid-19 and the Women and Girls Initiative
The first of 5 blogs about COVID-19, which shared some of the achievements of projects as they quickly and effectively mobilised to...
A Safer Pair of Hands: BME and specialist Violence Against Women and Girls...
A new insights briefing from the Women and Girls Initiative.
Why Work with Young Women and Girls Matters: An insights briefing
A briefing designed to support those providing services for young women and girls.
Influencing Commissioners – new guide published
A resource for projects funded through the National Lottery Community Fund’s Women and Girls Initiative.
Why Women’s Centres Work: An Evidence Briefing
How Women’s Centres can play a key role in meeting the needs of women in their communities?
Have we lost the ‘we’?
The first blog written by Professor Liz Kelly, CWASU, London Metropolitan University, for the WGI, in 2018.
Where she was to where she is now: an animation celebrating the Women...
The WGI film (2022), made by Leeds Animation Workshop with women and girls working with and supported by WGI funded projects.
Women and Girls’ Initiative – Learning and Impact Services
New project announcement...
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