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Thank you to Florence Eshalomi MP for continuing to champion the needs of young women and girls affected by criminal exploitation and...
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Sep 25
The Experiences of Black Missing Children and their Parents
One of the members of Abianda's Young Women's Advisory Group participated in Missing People and Listen Up 's research for their report...
Aug 16
Statement on racist and Islamophobic violence
Abianda condemns the racist and Islamophobic violence we have seen escalating throughout our communities in recent weeks. Our thoughts...
Jun 17
A clear vision for the future
“Step by step, young people will be helped and systems will be changed” Abianda’s vision is that young women and girls are free from...
Jun 13
Celebrating a Decade of Impact: Abianda's New Strategic Direction
This year marks a significant milestone for Abianda, as we celebrate our tenth anniversary of increasing the independence and agency of...
Mar 20
International Women's Month
We may have missed International Women's Day (although we like to think that every day at Abianda is International Women's Day...), but...
Mar 12
Safe Spaces Conference
On 27 February, our Services and Safeguarding Lead Fiona headed to the "Shaping Tomorrow: Creating Safe Spaces for Girls and Women"...
Feb 14
Criminal Exploitation Report
This month, the Centre for Social Justice and Justice & Care released a new report 'Criminal Exploitation: Modern Slavery by Another...
Feb 13
School Exclusions
We are concerned with figures from Agenda Alliance's analysis showing that Black Caribbean, mixed Black, Irish Traveller and Gypsy/Roma...
Feb 7
National Combatting Gangs, Violence and County Lines Conference
On 30 January, our Services Manager Amanda presented at the National Combatting Gangs, Violence and County Lines Conference. She...
Feb 1
Online Harms Event
Yesterday evening, Abianda attended 'Exploring Policing Online: The Conversation Continues', an event facilitated by Met Police and young...
Jan 17
Abianda Pitchside
On Sunday 14 January, Abianda CEO and Founder Abi headed to Meadow Park to watch Arsenal WFC take on Watford. This was the first time...
Dec 21, 2023
YWAG Meeting
The Young Women's Advisory Group met for our second meeting last week and it was also our end-of-year celebration. We worked on our group...
Dec 8, 2023
Solution-focused Training
The Abianda team attended 6 sessions of solution-focused training with the amazing Luke Goldie-McSorley from Essex Solution Focused...
Oct 31, 2023
London VRU Event
On 30 October, our Contextual Safeguarding Lead Fiona attended London's Violence Reduction Unit's Girls and Young Women's Best Practice...
Oct 18, 2023
EU Anti-Trafficking Day
Today, 18 October, is the EU Anti-Trafficking Day. Girls facing criminal exploitation in the UK are regularly victims of trafficking....
Oct 13, 2023
Young Women Join Abianda
After 2 rounds of interviews, we are so delighted to have confirmed the members of our Young Women's Advisory Group (YWAG)! Our...
Sep 15, 2023
Contextual Safeguarding Book Launch
On Wednesday, Abianda had the pleasure of attending the book launch for Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter at Redmond Community...
Sep 14, 2023
Open Letter with Barnardo's
We are proud to have signed an open letter, alongside Barnardo's and 20,136 members of the public, calling on the Government to provide...
Sep 4, 2023
Waltham Forest + Abianda
Abianda’s Participation team worked with young women from Waltham Forest’s Young Advisors (YA) and Youth Independent Advisory Group...
Aug 23, 2023
Young Women's Advisory Group!
We're excited to announce that we are recruiting for our Young Women's Advisory Group (YWAG)! We would love for you to share this...
Aug 21, 2023
Filming
Our Contextual Safeguarding Lead Fiona was up to something special last week. She was filming for a video training package. This training...
Aug 8, 2023
Abianda & Arsenal
On 2 August, Abianda was invited to Emirates Stadium for a No More Red event in the Adidas box. Thank you to Arsenal FC and Arsenal in...
Aug 2, 2023
Abianda’s reflections on the death of Aisha Cleary
Overview In August 2019, a young woman called Rianna Cleary was remanded to HMP Bronzefield, Europe’s largest women’s prison. Rianna had...
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