Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1972-2018 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
61 large boxes + 51 small boxes (1.745 m³) + 1 oversized folder
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by Gwenda Williams of Aberystwyth Women's Aid in May 2006, by Ursula Masson of Pontypridd Women's Aid in October 2006, and by Ms Tina Reece of Cardiff Women's Aid in September 2019.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers donated by the Aberystwyth, Pontypridd and Cardiff branches 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; material celebrating Welsh Women's Aid's twenty-first, twenty-fifth and fortieth anniversaries; and individual branch archives of Welsh Women's Aid, 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.
There is considerable overlap of subject-matter within sections of the archive: for example, corporate and work reports, statistics and questionnaires, as well as material relating to violence against women, children/families, housing and benefits appear under multiple sections, while records of individual group meetings such as Employment and Finance or material relating to accounts, conferences, training courses, etc frequently appear under details of Management Committee meetings, Annual Reviews and so forth.
See under Cardiff Women's Aid Archive: Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales for correspondence and other material relating to Welsh Women's Aid's decision to deposit papers with the Women's Archive of Wales.
** NOTE THAT SOME SECTIONS OF THIS ARCHIVE HAVE BEEN EMBARGOED FOR A SPECIFIC PERIOD OF TIME: SEE UNDER INDIVIDUAL HEADINGS ***
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
Aberystwyth Women's Aid Archive:
Under Domestic violence/Violence against women: Material relating to Kiranjit Ahluwalia includes some Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Established in 1978, Welsh Women's Aid is a Welsh charity working to end domestic violence and all other forms of abuse against women by providing refuge and other services to women and their children seeking to leave an abusive situation.
Note
Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales was founded in 1997 as a non-profit-making organisation and a registered charity run by volunteers. The Archive seeks to identify and rescue materials relating to the lives of women in Wales past, present and future and to encourage their deposit in appropriate public repositories while aiming to promote understanding of women’s roles in Welsh history and the inclusion of women in history taught in schools and higher education. AMC/WAW organises events such as conferences, day schools and talks, undertakes grant-aided projects and produces a quarterly newsletter.
Note
Pontypridd Women's Aid Archive:
Language note:
Conferences: Federatie van Huizen voor Mishandelde Vrouwen international conference 1981 - some Dutch, some (very little) French.
Conferences: Welsh Women's Aid international conference 1988 - some Portuguese, Malay, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Tok Pisin.
Note
Cardiff Women's Aid Archive:
Language note:
Conferences: Women's Aid international conference 1988: Some (very little) Maori; some (very little) Tok Pisin.
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Women's Aid. Wales (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; RDA NACO; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
February 2022
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Sources
Archivist's note
Compiled by Bethan Ifan. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Primary source material; online search engines.