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Building an intersectional feminist future for Scotland

Earlier this month, our membership came together for our Annual General Meeting and to consider our Annual Report 2025, which you can read here.

It gave us a rare opportunity to take stock of our work and what we’ve managed to achieve in the last year. 
 
We’d like to say a huge thank you to our members, followers, and everyone we’ve collaborated with. We’re grateful to the hundreds of women from across Scotland who have responded to our consultations and surveys or who joined our workshops in person. Your support and engagement enrich our work, help us understand the challenges women face, and what the priorities for change need to be - thank you.

It’s been a busy year... 

We’ve worked across issues including women’s:  

• Poverty and the impacts on unpaid carers, single mums, migrant and refugee women. 

• Health, securing phase two of the groundbreaking Women’s Health Plan and a renewed focus on mental health.  

• Reproductive Rights, launching a major partnership campaign on abortion: Lets change the Act.  

• Safety: focusing on how violence against women can be prevented using policy changes across transport, housing and planning.  

• Equal Representation in Politics, Media and Culture, publishing in-depth research on the increasing hostility and pressure women face in these spaces and what government and organisations can do to improve things. 

We’ve engaged with hundreds of women through our research, surveys and events, including in-person workshops across the country. We captured powerful personal testimony and positive feedback:  

“Diverse, respectful, and inclusive workshop space” 
“Felt heard, valued, and respected”
“Really excellent event and well run”
“Amazing, so engaging and freedom for chat”

 
We produced a wide range of briefings, evidence and analysis highlighting 14 vital areas for women’s equality in Scotland today. 

We collaborated directly with 130 different organisations.

We contributed to 22 advisory bodies, sharing our expertise and advocating for change. 

We hosted 28 in-person and online events, conferences and webinars. 

We could not do this without you, thank you. 

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