{"id":6783,"date":"2024-10-31T14:58:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T14:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2025-05-23T13:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:46:24","slug":"november-2024-working-for-woking-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/2024\/10\/31\/november-2024-working-for-woking-show\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2024 &#8211;  16 Days of Activism &#8211; Safety of Women in Surrey &#8211; Remembrance Sunday &#8211; Working for Woking Show &#8211; Catalyst Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>16 Days of Activism<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/Trello-16-Days-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6800 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/Trello-16-Days-1-300x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Days of intensive campaigning by Soroptimists all over the world.\u00a0 The aim: to raise awareness and lead to action about all the ways in which women are exploited and abused.<\/p>\n<h1>Safety of Women in Surrey<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/Safety-of-Women-conference-themes-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6797 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/Safety-of-Women-conference-themes-1-300x106.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>On Wednesday 20 November 2024 Surrey Soroptimists hosted a one-day conference to explore the safety of women and girls living and working in Surrey.\u00a0<\/strong>The event brought together expert speakers and representatives of 40 organisations in Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>The main speakers were:\u00a0 Professor Susan Edwards, Professor of Law, University of Northumbria, Newcastle;\u00a0Sarah Mullen, Former Chair, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.respect.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Respect<\/a> (UK charity stopping perpetrators of domestic abuse);\u00a0 Gill Kirkman, Assistant Professor in Social Work, UK Country Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.hud.ac.uk\/institutes-centres\/cacs\/projects\/none_in_three_proventing_domestic_violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">None in Three <\/a>academic research project; Lisa Townsend, Surrey Police &amp; Crime Commissioner;\u00a0 Chris Green OBE, Co-Founder, <a href=\"https:\/\/menchallengingsexism.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Male Allies Challenging Sexism<\/a>, Founder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiteribbon.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Ribbon<\/a> ; Caroline Hill, Surrey Police Stalking Adviser;\u00a0 Daisy Anderson, CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasasc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rape &amp; Sexual Abuse Support Centre<\/a> ; Christine Corless, Soroptimist &amp; Lead on Specialist Domestic Abuse Courts Response.<\/p>\n<p>The conference reviewed the issue, addressing:\u00a0 the laws we have in the UK to improve safety for women, the behaviours that stop women being safe: sexual offences, coercive control, stalking, adolescent dating violence and abuse, online abuse and in other settings, such as schools, workplaces\u2026 Speakers and panellists also talked about the many challenges in this area: responding to crisis events; keeping victims safe; deterrence &#8211; 2023 statistics show a large number of suspected cases of abuse, but resulting in only a few cases taken to court and even fewer offenders convicted; better ways of prevention of abuse &#8211; funding, countering misogynistic attitudes and prejudice&#8230;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left\">Remembrance Sunday<\/h1>\n<p>A clear, autumnal day for the Remembrance this year.<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/SIWD-wreath_November-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6793 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/SIWD-wreath_November-2024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/President-Jennie-Cenotaph-Woking_November-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6794 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/President-Jennie-Cenotaph-Woking_November-2024-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>President Jennie laid the wreath at the Cenotaph for us this year.<\/p>\n<h1>Working for Woking Volunteer Fair<\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>We had a stand at the Working For Woking Volunteer Fair on 7 November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The show made clear that Surrey has an amazing number of volunteers who are doing a tremendous amount for the community.<\/p>\n<p>A great opportunity to connect and network.<\/p>\n<h1>Catalyst Support<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/CEO-Catalyst-Support.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6788 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/CEO-Catalyst-Support-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are not alone&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/catalystsupport.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catalyst Support<\/a> CEO Sue Murphy was our invited speaker in early November.\u00a0 She told us about the impressive range of help offered by Catalyst Support.\u00a0 The Catalyst staff and volunteers all work to promote mental health and wellbeing of Surrey residents. The help offered by Catalyst for the last 35 years is invaluable given that there are 19 high-risk neighbourhoods in Surrey.\u00a0 \u00a0The staff and volunteers all work to promote mental health and wellbeing of Surrey residents.\u00a0 In addition to direct counselling and other help, Catalyst also looks after the Women&#8217;s Support Centre and Shifa in Woking.<\/p>\n<h1>Community Support<\/h1>\n<p>SI Woking &amp; District Secretary Christina attended the celebration of five years of Appeer, which helps autistic women and girls in Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>Several members attended the online session on Surrey&#8217;s Food Systems organised by the Surrey Climate Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 Days of Activism Days of intensive campaigning by Soroptimists all over the world.\u00a0 The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-weve-been-up-to-recently"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>November 2024 - 16 Days of Activism - Safety of Women in Surrey - Remembrance Sunday - Working for Woking Show - Catalyst Support | News | Blog | Events | SI Woking and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Woking and District : Blog &amp; News : November 2024 - 16 Days of Activism - Safety of Women in Surrey - Remembrance Sunday - Working for Woking Show - Catalyst Support : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Woking and District . 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