Woman Arise CIC
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woman20arise@gmail.com
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Gorton and Abbey Hey
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07400555846
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WOMAN ARISE CIC
ABOUT US
Woman Arise CIC is self-led, and we centre and encourage lived experiences in our practices and take an intersectional approach to serve the communities that we represent. Our organisation has 75% or three quarters of leadership or staff members that have lived experience of the issues we work on.
MISSION: Woman Arise organisation core mission is to create safe spaces where women come together in workshops, conferences and other events with an intention of addressing historically and systematically health and economic inequalities that occur in our society.
Spaces are created for the following.
1. Exploration, revealing, questioning, and dismantling of systems that continue to perpetuate disadvantages.
2. Formulation of tangible steps with an intention of healing and reimagining better lifestyles (health and economic) for women, their families, and communities.
PROJECTS
Woman Arise CIC’s two flagship projects are the following.
(1) Arise projects -tackling and addressing economic inequalities.
Racial injustice occurs when anytime a person is denied their constitutional rights based upon the colour of their skin. The pandemic revealed and brought to the fore shocking levels of racial injustice here in the United Kingdom and showed how this this form of discrimination is woven into the very fabric of our society, from our economy to our healthcare system and into the education system. Thus, poverty rates in Britain vary significant by ethnicity. The statistics are even gloomier for women, with Black women suffering the largest penalties. Research seems to suggest that Black women specifically face discrimination due to both their race and gender. Researchers from LSE analysed pay over the past 17 years to establish who is among the top 1 per cent, 10 per cent and 20 per cent of earners. The researchers also examined if the results could be explained by Black women working in occupations that lack progression opportunities, having more childcare responsibilities than other women, working fewer hours or lower levels of education. When age, education, marital status, hours and occupation were taken into account researchers found out that there were still significant differences for Black women. The researchers reported the following i. Black women are less likely than any other group to be in the top 1% of income even when looking only at the black and minority ethnic workers population, where UK-born Black women are still 0.5% less likely to belong to the top 1%. ii. Black women are the least likely to be among the UK’s top earners compared to any other racial or gender group. iii. while all women experience substantial differences in pay, hours and representation in top jobs, it is Black women, regardless of whether they are UK born, who have the lowest probabilities of being top earners. While 1.3% of UK-born White men are in the top 1%, it is only 0.2% of UK-born White women and less than 0.1% of UK-born Black women. Woman Arise CIC flagship programme “ARISE” was birthed during the pandemic to tackle this form of discrimination. The ARISE programme affords women of African and Caribbean who have been historically and systematically marginalised the space to explore what it means reveal- question-dismantle systems that perpetuate racial injustices and most importantly to come up with tangible steps in order to heal-reimagine better lifestyles and empower ourselves economically.
(2) Afrofit project – promoting physical and mental wellbeing among women.
The Afrofit project’s is delivered with two other women organisations, Angels of Hope and Bollyfit Active CIC. As a partnership of three women organisations, we believe that what we are doing at the local level is so significant as very few interventions have been trialled by voluntary organisations to address the health inequalities. We believe this project is providing valuable learning about real life implications of using health advocates from within the communities themselves to enhance women experiences and health life styles.
• The Afrofit sessions involve women taking part in health chats at the beginning of each session and thereafter 45 minutes of cardio dance exercises ( (dancing to Afro music) every Thursday at the Methodist Church, 1 Mercer Road in Gorton. M18 8JR and one hour Saturday walks in Gorton park.
ABOUT US
Woman Arise CIC is self-led, and we centre and encourage lived experiences in our practices and take an intersectional approach to serve the communities that we represent. Our organisation has 75% or three quarters of leadership or staff members that have lived experience of the issues we work on.
MISSION: Woman Arise organisation core mission is to create safe spaces where women come together in workshops, conferences and other events with an intention of addressing historically and systematically health and economic inequalities that occur in our society.
Spaces are created for the following.
1. Exploration, revealing, questioning, and dismantling of systems that continue to perpetuate disadvantages.
2. Formulation of tangible steps with an intention of healing and reimagining better lifestyles (health and economic) for women, their families, and communities.
PROJECTS
Woman Arise CIC’s two flagship projects are the following.
(1) Arise projects -tackling and addressing economic inequalities.
Racial injustice occurs when anytime a person is denied their constitutional rights based upon the colour of their skin. The pandemic revealed and brought to the fore shocking levels of racial injustice here in the United Kingdom and showed how this this form of discrimination is woven into the very fabric of our society, from our economy to our healthcare system and into the education system. Thus, poverty rates in Britain vary significant by ethnicity. The statistics are even gloomier for women, with Black women suffering the largest penalties. Research seems to suggest that Black women specifically face discrimination due to both their race and gender. Researchers from LSE analysed pay over the past 17 years to establish who is among the top 1 per cent, 10 per cent and 20 per cent of earners. The researchers also examined if the results could be explained by Black women working in occupations that lack progression opportunities, having more childcare responsibilities than other women, working fewer hours or lower levels of education. When age, education, marital status, hours and occupation were taken into account researchers found out that there were still significant differences for Black women. The researchers reported the following i. Black women are less likely than any other group to be in the top 1% of income even when looking only at the black and minority ethnic workers population, where UK-born Black women are still 0.5% less likely to belong to the top 1%. ii. Black women are the least likely to be among the UK’s top earners compared to any other racial or gender group. iii. while all women experience substantial differences in pay, hours and representation in top jobs, it is Black women, regardless of whether they are UK born, who have the lowest probabilities of being top earners. While 1.3% of UK-born White men are in the top 1%, it is only 0.2% of UK-born White women and less than 0.1% of UK-born Black women. Woman Arise CIC flagship programme “ARISE” was birthed during the pandemic to tackle this form of discrimination. The ARISE programme affords women of African and Caribbean who have been historically and systematically marginalised the space to explore what it means reveal- question-dismantle systems that perpetuate racial injustices and most importantly to come up with tangible steps in order to heal-reimagine better lifestyles and empower ourselves economically.
(2) Afrofit project – promoting physical and mental wellbeing among women.
The Afrofit project’s is delivered with two other women organisations, Angels of Hope and Bollyfit Active CIC. As a partnership of three women organisations, we believe that what we are doing at the local level is so significant as very few interventions have been trialled by voluntary organisations to address the health inequalities. We believe this project is providing valuable learning about real life implications of using health advocates from within the communities themselves to enhance women experiences and health life styles.
• The Afrofit sessions involve women taking part in health chats at the beginning of each session and thereafter 45 minutes of cardio dance exercises ( (dancing to Afro music) every Thursday at the Methodist Church, 1 Mercer Road in Gorton. M18 8JR and one hour Saturday walks in Gorton park.
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