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Material relating to Oaklands Women's Centre, situated in Glasbury, Herefordshire, which was given to Welsh Women's Aid as a respite centre for women and their children living in refuges in Wales. Items include legal documents regarding the handing over of the property to Welsh Women's Aid; constitution of Oaklands Women's Centre; draft advertisements for job vacancies relating to the project; and records of meetings discussing Oaklands Women's Centre.

Records of Welsh Women's Aid's Outreach Special Interest Group meetings.

Records of Welsh Women's Aid's Outreach Special Interest Group meetings, 1994-2000, together with related material.

Printed documents and correspondence relating to Friends Provident personal pension plans.

Two printed and bound poetry anthologies and one loose poem by women survivors of domestic abuse.

Material relating to a conference titled 'The Police and Women's Aid: The Response to Domestic Violence in Wales' held in Llandrindod Wells, 25 November 1986.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's policies regarding health and safety and LGBT issues.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's Equal Opportunities Policy, Drugs Policy, Welsh Language Policy and Health and Safety Policy, together with a Welsh Women's Aid policy book.

Material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's Equal Opportunies, Health and Safety and Welsh Language policies, together with a Welsh Women's Aid policy book dated May 1995.

Welsh Women's Aid Policy book, dated May 1995.

Welsh Women's Aid policy book, detailing the constitution, structure and codes of practice of Welsh Women's Aid, together with Welsh Women's Aid's policies regarding sub-groups and special interest groups, the Welsh language, funding, employment, expenses and training.

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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.

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).

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

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.

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 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.