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MONDAY 8TH MARCH 2021

Ashiana Sheffield is a proud supporter of International Women’s Day (IWD) 8th March 2021, a globally recognised and widely celebrated day – highlighting the achievements of influential and inspiring women. This campaign aims to champion a society where equality for all is at the forefront of everything we do.

IWD 2021

The IWD 2021 Campaign pays particular attention to challenging instances of inequality, to call out on bias in life and the workplace and to raise objections on typical stereotypes. This will help us to build a world were we are inclusive and supportive of one and other. This years message #ChooseToChallenge promotes these behaviours on a wider scale throughout all social media platforms.

GET INVOLVED

Ashiana Sheffield invites you to get involved, you can find more information on activities and messages relating to the #ChooseToChallenge campaign on the IWD website here: https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme.

ASHIANA IWD EVENT

Ashiana Sheffield hosted a live online event on Monday 8th March 2021 at 12pm – 3pm, to celebrate IWD 2021 and the achievements of the women that we support, and those that support us. Please see below for more information.

Click to see Ashiana Chair, Daljit Kaur's IWD 2021 special video message

Click to see Ashiana CEO Nicola Lambe’s IWD 2021 special video message

Click to see Ashiana Vice Chair, Freda Cotterell Health and Wellbeing short-session

Ashiana also used the opportunity to re-launch and raise awareness of our current #WeAreHereForYou campaign, which aims to support female abuse victims all over the UK to find safety and be free from fear and harm.

EVENT DETAILS

Event: Ashiana & International Women’s Day 2021 #ChooseToChallenge
Date: 8th March 2021
Time: 12pm – 3pm
Location: Webinar – Zoom
Cost: Free

EVENT SUMMARY

Ashiana's IWD 2021 event was a successfully informative and rewarding event, throughout the day, Ashiana's women service users had the opportunity to find out more about our #WeAreHereForYou campaign, presented by Ashiana Sheffield CEO, Nicola Lambe. As well as, IWD's history and how women's rights have evolved over the years, presented by Ashiana Operations and Development Manager, Charlotte Hudson.

Also, our special speaker, Ashiana Sheffield Vice Chair, Freda Cotterell, presented a segment on Health and Wellbeing and how the women we support; service users and staff members, can look after their mental and physical health during the current lockdown period. This provided a space for service users to break out into groups via breakout rooms and discuss how they are looking after their health and pick up extra tips and tricks for at home activities.

In addition to this, our event had a segment dedicated to 'Share A Story', were both the women service users and staff members shared their unique, touching and inspiring stories with everyone. The event closed off with a final speech by Nicola Lambe, sharing special gifts for all of our attendees joining us to mark and celebrate IWD 2021.

We want to say a big thank you to all the women that joined us for our Ashiana & IWD 2021 event.

SHEFFIELD CENTRAL MP, PAUL BLOMFIELD

Ashiana has partnered with Sheffield Central MP, Paul Blomfield to increase awareness of our support services this IWD and help raise money for Ashiana to continue supporting our domestic violence victims. You too can click on the link below to donate. Read the article here: At the intersection of two pandemics - Paul Blomfield and Ashiana raise awareness of domestic violence for IWD 2021.

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