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Reports and statistics relating to Welsh Women's Aid, which include a report on access to health services for women in refuges and a BAWSO (Black Association of Women Step Out) impact report, together with more general reports concerning issues such as domestic violence, housing and welfare payments.

Reports and statistics relating to Welsh Women's Aid, including research projects; completed questionnaires sent out to Women's Aid branches within Wales, together with an analysis of the results; statistics relating to individual branches of Women's Aid within Wales; staff work reports; Annual Reports; Annual Reviews; and reports submitted to the National Assembly of Wales in Cardiff.

Reports and statistics relating to Welsh Women's Aid, including annual reports, annual reviews and staff workers' reports.

Six-monthly progress report, October 2001-April 2002, submitted by Welsh Women's Aid to the National Assembly of Wales (now known as the Senedd) and a report of a meeting between Welsh Women's Aid and the National Assembly of Wales held on 20 November 2001.

Records of Welsh Women's Aid Mid & West Wales, North Wales and South Wales regional meetings, 1981-2001, with related material; together with general material relating to Welsh Women's Aid regional meetings which contains no reference to any specific region(s).

Records of Welsh Women's Aid regional and branch meetings, 1983-2003.

Material relating to the recruitment of paid refuge staff at Lliw Valley Women's Aid, comprising correspondence between Lliw Valley Women's Aid, Lliw Valley Borough Council, West Glamorgan Community Services Council and the Manpower Services Commission.

Draft and fair-copy material relating to Welsh Women's Aid process of staff recruitment, including job advertisements, job descriptions and employment contracts.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid process of staff recruitment, including job advertisements, job descriptions and employment contracts.

Records of Welsh Women's Aid Management Committee meetings, 1981-2003.

Records of Aberystwyth Women's Aid Management Committee meetings, 1986-2000, divided into two boxes (1986-1996 and 1997-2000), together with general material relating to meetings, the latter kept in marked envelope.

One item included with the 16 July 1998 meeting records relates to Erin Pizzey, founder of the first shelters for abused women in and around London, who later significantly modified her views on domestic violence and became an advocate for men's rights.

Welsh Women's Aid National Quality Service Standards introductory document dated February 2018.

Papers relating to Quality Assurance standards within Welsh Women's Aid, comprising Quality Assurance Working Party reports and a Strategy for Quality Assurance dated July 2002.

Material relating to publicity and the media as it relates to Welsh Women's Aid, including Publicity Strategy Team records (kept in separate envelope); press releases; correspondence, largely with newspapers and television companies; press cuttings (kept in separate envelope); and guidelines on public speaking and how to deal with the media. A number of items relating to Erin Pizzey, founder of the first shelters for abused women in and around London, who later significantly modified her views on domestic violence and became an advocate for men's rights, are kept in a separate envelope.

Material relating to publicity and the media as it relates to Welsh Women's Aid, including items relating to Welsh Women's Aid's Publicity Strategy Team; press releases issued by Welsh Women's Aid; material relating to media broadcasts and social events which highlight Welsh Women's Aid's work and/or women's issues; publicity resource pack for the use of Welsh Women's Aid groups; and guidelines on how to make the most of media opportunities.

Press articles and advertisements (some photocopied) relating to Welsh Women's Aid and their work.

Welsh Women's Aid's responses to draft papers produced March 2000 and [2002] by the National Assembly for Wales titled, respectively, 'Promoting Health and Wellbeing: A Consultation Document' and 'Well Being in Wales'. Welsh Women's Aid's responses seek to add to and amend information given in the draft papers by detailing the health needs of women and children in Wales who experience domestic abuse.

Report of a Preventing Crime against Women national conference held in London, [1991] (no specific dates; however, report submitted 4 May 1991).

Material relating to what appears to be a conference entitled Preventing ACEs [adverse childhood experiences]: Opportunities for collaboration between specialist violence against women services and the public sector held at an unspecified location in 2017 (no further details of date apparent).

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Papers donated by the Pontypridd branch of Welsh Women's Aid. They include material relating to the constitution, corporate structure, strategic development and codes of practice of Welsh Women's Aid; records of its Management Committee and of numerous departmental meetings; internal and external correspondence; accounting, fundraising and other administrative papers; and branch archives from Wales, England and Northern Ireland, all of which reference the issues affecting women and their children who access Women's Aid, such as domestic violence, social welfare and law and legislation.

Note that not all material contained within this section may be directly related to the donor (Pontypridd) branch.

Jane Hutt (b. 1949) was one of the founder members of Welsh Women's Aid and was appointed as coordinator of the group in January 1978. She is currently (September 2021) a Welsh Labour Party politician serving as Minister for Social Justice since 2021. In her capacity as Welsh Women's Aid co-ordinator, Jane Hutt is frequently referenced throughout this archive.