Groups & Community

Overview

We have influencer and advisory groups, which bring women together to find strength from each other as well as produce information to improve policy and practice for those delivering services and systems. Group work involving the wellbeing team at Baobab often delivers wellness sessions as part of the influencing and advisory group work.  We work closely with the Women with Hope, often encouraging women to access sessions for social activities, to feel supported and make friends. Women have come together to create film and books – sll our groups work towards an inclusive and respectful world, we strongly advocate for need system change. 

The Baobab Women’s Project CIC is governed and  delivered by a majority of women from the communities we assist. See more information on our About Us page. 

Women's Advisory Group

part of the NRPF Women's Support Network

Co-production is such a vital part of our work. In 2022 we embarked on a 3-year-long project, led by Womens Aid in partnership with Central England Law Centre, Refugee Migrant Centre, Roshni and the British Red Cross, working together until Jan 2025 to tackle issues faced by women who have No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) and experience or are at risk of experiencing domestic abuse. 

Our role in the partnership is actively receiving guidance and consultation from the women the partnership work with, to ensure that our services are well-adapted to their needs and experiences. We will also work with the network to address the structural issues that mean women are stuck in destitution and statelessness. 

Funded by the Smallwood Trust, we have established an advisory group for women with no recourse to public funds (NPRF) and who have experienced destitution. The advisory group is co-ordinated by us, but is led and managed by women with lived experience of domestic abuse and immigration law. 

Some of the advisory group’s women are training as community researchers, educating and informing existing networks for women, ensuring that women’s voices are heard. We aim to nurture equity in each of these women’s contributions, paying attention to power imbalances around nationality, age, education, confidence, mental health, and status. 

We ran groups every 2 weeks in 2020-21, delivered by advocates with lived experience, to empower and inspire community women. The group have produced a photographic book to take to change makers.

Our Book Launch was at the Warehouse Cafe during Refugee Week 2021. Support women by buying the book. Suggested cost is £10.

Email [email protected] to get a copy of the book. 

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