DUNDEE INTERNATIONAL WOMENS CENTRE 

To contribute towards staff, service user, and centre costs for introducing the ?Welcome to Scotland? to support women adjusting to life and laws in a new country.

This group will use the funding to hire a project worker to provide support for women from black and minority backgrounds with issues related to the cost-of-living crisis. The worker will help those ....more

This group will use the funding to hire a project worker to provide support for women from black and minority backgrounds with issues related to the cost-of-living crisis. The worker will help those with language barriers to access statutory and third sector provision where it is needed as well as help those who have other issues related to the crisis such as housing and benefit claims.

Funding towards core programmes, namely ESOL classes, skills based subjects, social, health & wellbeing groups, obtaining SQA-accredited qualifications, VAWG awareness workshops, connecting ....more

Funding towards core programmes, namely ESOL classes, skills based subjects, social, health & wellbeing groups, obtaining SQA-accredited qualifications, VAWG awareness workshops, connecting cultures project.

The group will use the centre to provide a twice weekly open hub for members of the community to access a warm space. This will include hot meals and a warm inclusive space to chat and gather with ....more

The group will use the centre to provide a twice weekly open hub for members of the community to access a warm space. This will include hot meals and a warm inclusive space to chat and gather with childcare facilities available and resources such as computers and advise sessions.

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This group will support isolated women from migrant and minority ethnic backgrounds during the COVID-19 crisis. They will provide mental health support as well as social and learning activities via ....more

This group will support isolated women from migrant and minority ethnic backgrounds during the COVID-19 crisis. They will provide mental health support as well as social and learning activities via telephone email and social media.

Resilient Dundee

This project will run multiple cultural celebrations, six lunch clubs and a family fun day throughout the year. This group target women from any ethnic group, particularly those from BME backgrounds ....more

This project will run multiple cultural celebrations, six lunch clubs and a family fun day throughout the year. This group target women from any ethnic group, particularly those from BME backgrounds but also from the local community.

We want women to feel more confident and mentally well through making new friends and taking part in activities which they enjoy. They might come to a social group, or to a more formal group, or to ....more

We want women to feel more confident and mentally well through making new friends and taking part in activities which they enjoy. They might come to a social group, or to a more formal group, or to events like an Eid party or Christmas Fair, but it gives them the chance to get out of the house and be themselves. I can be myself, not someones mother or wife or daughter in law as one member said. We want women to be able to speak better English and through that, to become more engaged with the wider Dundee community, whether because they come to formal classes for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) or to other classes or events where English is the common language. Women who come to DIWC say that they are better able to talk to their GP, childrens teacher and people in shops than they were before (DIWC Learner Evaluation Survey June 2018) We want women to gain a sense of achievement and support them to increase their aspirations, going on to higher levels of education or employment if that is what they want. We want women to feel more in control of their own lives. By gaining confidence, knowledge and language skills they know more about their rights and responsibilities within Scotland; they have a better understanding of health issues for themselves and their families; they may be able to contribute towards their family income. Simply opening their first bank account could be the first step towards this. We want people to be more aware of different cultures, through mixing within the Centre, holding public events and by providing education and training.

Dundee International Women's Centre's 50th Anniversary

to contribute towards delivering an Outreach Programme.

towards three years' salary of the Project Lead Worker and Volunteer Coordinator at an organisation providing support to women from BAME communities in Dundee

The salary costs of the Project Lead Worker

Dundee International Women’s Centre (DIWC) runs the city’s only non-religious multicultural BME young women’s youth group. Most members are very socially isolated and lack confidence as a ....more

Dundee International Women’s Centre (DIWC) runs the city’s only non-religious multicultural BME young women’s youth group. Most members are very socially isolated and lack confidence as a result of not being allowed to participate unaccompanied in social activities or to take part in school sport. DIWC believes this isolation contributes to the fact that young BME women are 3 times more likely to consider suicide and 7 times more likely to self-harm than their white peers. The grant will fund 3 part-time youth workers who use the platform of sports-led youth work that takes account of cultural needs to develop key life skills, build confidence and increase wellbeing.

towards three years' salary of an Executive Officer to provide support services to disadvantaged women from BAME communities in Dundee