For women and girls to be safe and realise their full potential we need to listen to their lived experience and ensure that policy and practice reflects their needs.

Failing to believe and trust women’s lived experience and therefore failing to tailor policies and practices for their needs results in the preservation and reproduction of an unequal society.

Women’s specialist organisations are best placed to meet the needs of women in whichever area they work, whether it’s violence against women and girls, health, disability or policy-focused work. It is imperative that policymakers, funders and other decision-makers recognise the unique value that specialist women’s organisations provide society to foster equality.

In order for specialist women’s organisations to be sustainable and resilient, in what is an increasingly difficult and challenging environment, it is crucial that support is provided. This kind of support is best provided through understanding and recognising the situations in which they work.

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This is Women’s Resource Centre’s role, and this is why we exist.

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WRC is continuously and tirelessly working to ensure the women’s sector is alive and well despite the increasingly challenging reality in which it operates. With a network of 4,000+, WRC has an incomparable reach and understanding of women and their organisations.

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By staying in constant contact with new and established women’s organisations across the country, and by being non-issue based, Women’s Resource Centre has its finger on the pulse of grassroots women’s organisations and therefore possesses a unique and in-depth understanding of the needs of the sector and all women it exists for.

Through WRC’s leadership in collaboration, exemplified by our work on CEDAW, Family Courts, the Cost-of-Living Crisis and the London VAWG Consortium, WRC has a bird’s-eye view of the current state of women’s equality which no other organisation has.

Through building capacity in the sector and by sharing information, creating networking opportunities and campaigning and influencing decision-makers, the work that WRC does is essential to ensure a diverse and thriving sector that achieves the best outcomes for women.

We believe that to achieve our vision of a world where all women are empowered and have substantive equality, a diverse and thriving women’s sector is vital. This is why our mission is to support and stand up for the women's sector and we do this by ensuring our work is guided by anti-racist feminism, environmental sustainability, collaboration, professionalism, equality and integrity.

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