International Women's Day
Local women's organisations
Aylesbury Everywoman's Centre
The Aylesbury Everywoman's Centre brings together women on the Aylesbury estate to empower and enrich their lives.
AAINA Women's Group (Asian Women's Association)
The AAINA Women's Group (Asian Women's Association) is a support service offering health and child care for asian women, muslim women and asylum seekers.
Thomas Charlton Centre
Alpha Street
London SE15 4NX
AAWAZ (Southwark Asian Women's Association)
The AAWAZ Southwark Asian Women's Association offers a centre for South Asian women and children; advice and information on welfare rights, benefits, housing, harassment and physical/sexual abuse; signposting to other services, range of group activities; classes and courses designed to develop confidence and independence; some translation and interpreting; outings and cultural events; a playscheme for five to 16 yr olds, youth projects and a homework club.
Barnado's Young Women
Barnardo's Young Women's project is based in London and offers young girls at risk of abuse; practical advice, social care, health and educational services.
Bengali Women's Group
The Bengali Women's Group was set up in 1986, as a self-help group for local disadvantage Bangladeshi women suffering isolation.
Birds Eye View
Birds Eye View (BEV) film festival is a creative platform for women filmmakers. Launching the UK 's first major women's film festival in 2005 across London 's leading film venues, showing a tip-top programme of stunning and inspirational features, documentaries and short films from around the world.
Diversity Practice: Different Women, Different Places
Diversity Practice works with organisations, leaders, teams and individuals to create cultures that harness diversity and achieve excellence.
Empowered Woman Mentoring Programme
Empowered Women Mentoring Programme is designed for women who believe they have a vision to birth. Women who believe that they have something to offer their community. It's a programme designed for the 21st century woman who, given the opportunity, has the ability to empower others in their environment.
Gay Camberwell
Gay Camberwell, Southwark's lesbian, gay and bisexual women's group is a social group that meets regularly at Cafe Inspire just off the Walworth Road.
Great Lakes of Africa Womens Network
Great Lakes African Women's Network aims to empower bereaved women or those who have been through trauma becase of conflict in countries of origin. Women are given employment skills training, advice on CV writing, interview practice, and have access to the internet to look for jobs. Also encourage women to take part in cultural activities.
Kurdistan and Middle Eastern Women's Organisation
Kurdistan and Middle Eastern Women's Organisation (KRWO) was established in 1999 in order to provide support for women from Iraq, Iran and Eastern Turkey. All these women have one thing in common - they were all victims of domestic violence and exposed to the threat of honour killing in their countries.
Images of Black Women
Images of Black Women is an international film festival that celebrates and promotes the role of African women in cinema.
Latin Women's Network
Latin Women's Network is a social network aimed at providing information and promoting community involvement and cohesion initiatives among Latin American women.
Mad Chicks
Mad Chicks is a new movement, which focuses on issues specific to women mental health service users, using creativity to achieve their aims and attract attention to our causes.
The Middle Eastern Centre for Women's Rights
Middle Eastern Centre for Women's Rights (MECRW) aims are to expose and eliminate all forms of violations of women's rights within the Middle Eastern communities in the UK and the Middle Eastern countries, raise awareness about women's rights within the Middle Eastern communities and the wider society, and enable the voices and experiences of women to be heard by policy makers and the wider community for a better life and equal, and universal rights for women.
South London Women Artists
South London Women Artists is a community of women artists based in South London, who present an inspirational portfolio online and through exhibitions. It offers a website on which women artists living or working south of the river can post a profile about their work.
Southwark Cathedral Feminist Theology Group
Southwark Cathedral Feminist Theology Group meets monthly for reading, prayer, worship and fellowship around women's issues.
Southwark Muslim Women's Association
Southwark Muslim Women's Association provides a place where Muslim women can feel safe and comfortable; where they can meet socially, attend classes and workshops and receive advice and support.
Victim Support Southwark (VSS)
Victim Support Southwark works to support victims of crime, their families and witnesses of crime within the London borough of Southwark.
Vietnamese Women's Group
Vietnamese Women's Group offers information, advice and guidance in education, employment, immigration, welfare rights, housing and health.
Women for Women International
Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies.
