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What's happening for 2022's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

What's happening for 2022's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

Join us for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in 2022:

We support the annual campaign, which raises awareness of gender-based violence against women and girls and runs from 25 November to 10 December.

During the 16 Days, people around the world unite to highlight local and global statistics around domestic abuse, femicide and other gender-based issues, challenging discriminatory attitudes, and calling for improved laws and services to end violence against women and girls.

It's a yearly call to action, a chance to check-in and reflect, a chance to promote vital services, an opportunity to come together to connect, to learn, empower, to challenge, to take up space. To be a change maker.

The campaign has a clear message: we all have the right to live free from harm.

Gender violence is a term used to describe any act done to someone against their will as a result of gender-norms and unequal power relationships. This can include domestic abuse, sexual violence, forced marriage, honour-based acts, exploitation, and female genital mutilation, amongst others.

Here's a list of events and activities you can get involved in during this year's campaign
Date Time Venue Description
25/11/2022 12pm to 3pm Holiday Inn Bolton

Endeavour’s Annual Review

Celebrating 25 years of Endeavour with guest speaker Maggie Oliver Foundation.

Open to all (adults only).

Carrs Pasties will be served on arrival.

To book your free place, please use the link below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/endeavour-project-annual-review-tickets-458315412737.

For more information, contact: angelag@endeavourproject.org.uk.
25/11/2022 to 27/11/2022 10am to 5pm Touchstones, Rochdale

SAFE Exhibit - Rochdale

In November 2022, Bolton at Home and Arcon Housing Association invited women’s groups and organisations across Bolton, Rochdale, and Manchester to participate in the 16 Days Campaign, inviting them to creatively respond to the word SAFE.

The idea materialised through conversations about safety and safe spaces, with a particular reference to the murder of Sarah Everard, who thought she was in safe hands with a police officer, and in a safe space, walking back from her friend’s home.

Launch Event: Friday 25 November, 1.30pm to 5pm (with service providers, stalls and activities).

If you'd like to participate, please contact: sarah.taylor@arcon.org.uk.
28/11/2022 9.30am to 12.00pm Tonge Moor UCAN Centre

Pop-up cake pledges

The Bolton at Home Domestic Abuse Team will be hosting pop-up sessions to raise awareness of the 16 Days campaign and support services available, and encourage staff/the public to pledge their support to the campaign.

Money raised will go to the Endeavour Project.

For more information, contact: diane.exley@boltonathome.org.uk.
29/11/2022 to 10/12/2022 9am to 5pm Bolton Library, Crompton Place Shopping Centre

SAFE Exhibit - Bolton

In November 2022, Bolton at Home and Arcon Housing Association invited women’s groups and organisations across Bolton, Rochdale, and Manchester to participate in the 16 Days campaign, inviting them to creatively respond to the word SAFE.

The idea materialised through conversations about safety and safe spaces, with a particular reference to the murder of Sarah Everard, who thought she was in safe hands with a police officer, and in a safe space, walking back from her friend’s home.

Throughout the exhibition period (29 November to 10 December) there will be service providers attending, stalls, and different arts and social activities. If you'd like to participate, please contact danielle.porter@boltonathome.org.uk.
29/11/2022 10am to 12pm

Outreach Support Centre, Bradford Street

 Therapeutic Art Session organised by Fortalice.
1/12/2022 9.30am to 3pm Breightmet UCAN Centre

Pop-up cake pledges

The Bolton at Home Domestic Abuse Team will be hosting pop-up sessions to raise awareness of the 16 Days campaign and support services available, and encourage staff/the public to pledge their support to the campaign.

Money raised will go to the Endeavour Project.

For more information, contact: vanessa.hamnett@boltonathome.org.uk or diane.exley@boltonathome.org.uk.
1/12/2022 9.30am to 12pm New Bury UCAN Centre

Pop-up cake pledges

The Bolton at Home Domestic Abuse Team will be hosting pop-up sessions to raise awareness of the 16 Days campaign and support services available, and encourage staff/the public to pledge their support to the campaign.

Money raised will go to the Endeavour Project.

For more information, contact: chantelle.waring@boltonathome.org.uk.
2/12/2022 9.30am to 12.30pm Fortalice, 43 Bradford St, Haulgh, Bolton, BL2 1HT

Fortalice Open Morning

Introduction to Fortalice's outreach services for professionals and the community.

Organised by Fortalice.
5/12/2022 9.30am to 12pm Deane UCAN Centre

Pop-up cake pledges

The Bolton at Home Domestic Abuse Team will be hosting pop-up sessions to raise awareness of the 16 Days campaign and support services available, and encourage staff/the public to pledge their support to the campaign.

Money raised will go to the Endeavour Project.

For more information, contact: polly.taylor@boltonathome.org.uk.
6/12/2022 10.30am to 12pm Outreach Support Centre, Bradford Street

A Survivor’s Story

A session where a survivor shares her story and the barriers and successes of her journey.

Organised by Fortalice.
8/12/2022 10am to 1pm

Bolton Library, Crompton Place

Free to Fly with Stand up Sisters

Crafting to create a butterfly mural.

Open to all women, booking essential.

Organised by Endeavour.

For more information, contact: angelag@endeavourproject.org.uk.
9/12/2022 10am to 12pm Bolton Library, Crompton Place

W ords Of Our Bodies hosted by artist Riz Ali

Words Of Our Bodies is an exploration and reclaiming of our own bodies and the views around them, a way to give us power over the narratives that linger on our skin.

Join this safe space as we question what safety means to each of us through collaborative creative writing and body mapping.

Organised by Bolton at Home.
9/12/2022 6pm to 8pm Bolton Parish Church

Candlelit Vigil and Carol Service

Lighting remembrance candles and carol concert with a performance from the Rock Choir.

Open to all, including families.

Organised by Endeavour.

For more information, contact: angelag@endeavourproject.org.uk.

We (and our partners) are here if you need us:

If you're concerned about someone and would like to report domestic abuse and violence, please use the contact details on this page: www.boltonathome.org.uk/domestic-abuse.

Make a submission to our art exhibition this year:

One of our aims is to increase awareness of the campaign, so, every year, we host an art activity to do just that.

We'll be working with women’s groups and inviting other groups to participate in an art exhibition- and we invite you to join us.

In our planning sessions, safety and safe spaces kept coming up with particular reference to the murder of Sarah Everard, who thought she was in safe hands with a police officer, and in a safe space walking back from her friend’s home.

From these conversations, an idea was formed about hosting an exhibition entitled ‘Safe’. We're inviting you to create content for a box (which we'll decorate as a money safe) using the word ‘Safe’ as inspiration. It could be a positive or negative reaction.

We'll be exhibiting at Bolton Museum and Libraries and Touchstones in Rochdale.

Art forms could include written word, photography, illustration, drawing, painting, abstract- any item of your choosing.

The deadline for submissions is Friday 18 November 2022. Please get in touch using the details below if you're planning to make something.

For more information on e.g., dimensions of your work, please email danielle.porter@boltonathome.org.uk or sarah.taylor@arcon.org.uk.

If you're feeling stuck, here are some leading questions to help you get started:

  • Where do you feel safe?
  • What makes a space safe or unsafe?
  • What should be a safe space, but isn’t?
  • Is there anything you have that makes you feel safe?

Your work can be anonymous or labelled with your name/group name.

Some of the facts:

  • 58% percent of women felt unsafe using public transport after dark (Scotsman).
  • 44% percent of women aged 16 to 34 reported having experienced cat calling, whistles, unwanted sexual comments or jokes, and 29% had felt like they were being followed (Office of National Statistics 2021).
  • One in two women felt unsafe walking alone after dark in a quiet street near their home and alone after dark in a busy public place (Office of National Statistics).
  • Globally, 81,000 women and girls were killed in 2020. Around 47,000 of them (58%) died at the hands of an intimate partner or a family member, which equals to a woman or girl being killed every 11 minutes in their home (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC).
  • In the year to March 2020, 207 women were killed in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). This means about one in four killings were of women.

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