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Welcome to our very first
e-newsletter! In the spirit of trying something
new, we’re not publishing a newsletter this quarter but
hope this format will get our news out to a lot of our
contacts who don’t usually come across our printed
version. So, you’ve read this far, hope you find
the rest of interest…
We’re living in interesting, if
uncertain, times with the constant flow of bad economic
news leading us all to feel apprehensive about the year
ahead. The challenge for Engender is to ensure that
in tough times equalities work is not seen as a
luxury. While it’s never been easy to secure
funding for gender equality projects, there is currently
a whole wave of funders who don’t (or won’t) recognise
the huge gap in life chances that that still exists
between women and men and as a result are unwilling to
fund projects which attempt to address this.
Our work
continues apace but there is so much more we would like
to do in terms of our three main themes – Poverty, Power
and Participation and Violence Against Women. We’ll
continue to submit funding applications and hope for the
best in the coming months.
For now, we want to share our current
projects with you and if any of the work is of interest,
please get in touch – we have a range of Associates
ready to tailor any equalities training to your
needs and also GEMS (Gender Equality Mentors) who work
with managers in the public sector guiding them through
equalities legislation to ensure good practice.
Enough from me now, here’s what’s going
on in Engender-land…
Karen | 
