Trustees: Ann Kramer Ronan Drennan Carol Hughes Gill Knight 

## **Main activities undertaken for the public benefit.** 

Women’s Voice is run by women for local women in Hastings and St Leonards. Our aim is to help empower women by providing safe spaces where local women can meet, share experiences and gain confidence and skills. 

We are particularly concerned to reach marginalised and vulnerable women, many of whom have been affected by austerity measures. We have also focused on ways of helping women during the coronavirus pandemic. 

Women’s Voice aims to challenge sexism and misogyny in all its forms and welcomes women of all faiths, and none, of all sexualities, ages and abilities. Women’s Voice works in partnership with a number of organisations and agencies, including Hastings Borough Council (HBC), Hastings Voluntary Action (HVA), Active Hastings, MIND, the Hastings Refugee Buddy Project and Eggtooth. 

Covid continued to impact on Women’s Voice activities for much of the previous 12 months. During that time  Women’s Voice: 

*Focused very largely on violence against women locally. In particular we launched our video This Is Not Love using a local online outlet, Isolation Station. Guaranteeing anonymity, we had invited local women to send in real life accounts of domestic abuse/coercive control. Women actors then presented the accounts to camera, working from their own homes. The result is a very powerful 45minute video, This Is Not Love. Its online launch included a panel of women, who answered questions from viewers. The video formed part of a larger Comic Relief-funded programme, also entitled This Is Not Love (see below). 

* Celebrated International Women\s Day by hanging hearts, decorated by local women, in the local park, the Old Town and St Leonards: each carried a statement or slogan protesting violence against women. 

*Received funding from Heart of Hastings to produce an illustrated map of women’s suffrage activities, focusing on the ‘Trinity Triangle’, an area of Hastings which housed the local headquarters of the 



Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). The project is due for completion in January 2022. 

*Received funding from Comic Relief (via Groundworks) for a project This Is Not Love, focusing on coercive control and violence against women,  Women’s Voice hosted an online planning meeting with younger women from the community, view a view to drawing up appropriate activities. The project will run through until 2022. 



Women’s Voice Registered charity number: 1167373 

Women’s Voice Statement of assets and liabilities At 31 August 2021 


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2021 2020<br>£ £<br>Current Assets<br>Current account as at 4,758 3,749<br>Cash in hand (not physically counted)       26<br>58<br>                                                                               ---------------<br>--------<br>4,785 3,817<br>General liabilities<br>Outstanding cheques<br>                        --------------- ------------<br>4,785 3,817<br>Represented by<br>Funds brought forward 3,817<br>Net surplus/deficit for the period    968<br>             ---------<br>4,785<br>These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:<br>Signed Dated<br>Treasurer<br>Signed<br>Chair Dated<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>