25th of February, 2021
ANOTHER women's Refuge Loses Funding
Just three days after we heard that RISE have lost their contract following an “equalities impact assessment” on its service provision, another women’s charity, Monklands Women’s Aid, has announced it, too, has been defunded.
The charity has been supporting women and children for 30 years, and its activities include providing refuge, housing support services, and crisis support, for those who have experienced, or are at risk of experiencing, domestic abuse. Like RISE, Monklands has had its funding removed as part of a decision to make services more “inclusive”; specifically to provide services for men. And perpetrators.
Thankfully, due to another funding source, the charity will be able to continue to provide services in a limited capacity, however the decision, made by North Lanarkshire Council, clearly undervalues the importance of specialist support services.
We know that it is women who are most in need of these domestic abuse services, and the defunding of charities that centre females is part of the ongoing attack on women’s rights.
Call to Action
Please make your voice heard by doing the following:
Write to North Lanarkshire and Brighton and Hove Councils’ Equality teams.
Write to your MP (make sure they know you have also complained to the Councils).
Make as much noise as you can on social media, with #womensrightsarehumanrights
The activists who want to convince everyone that biological sex has no impact on a person’s life, although a minority, are successfully infiltrating organisations and influencing decision-makers.
This is not a drill. This is a war on women. Let’s start fighting back.