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Violence Affecting Young People Network
On the 9th of April, I attended a wonderful event organised by London Youth with my colleagues in our Participation team. It was a...
Apr 16


Exclusion Roundtable
Last week, our Services and Safeguarding Lead Fiona participated in Agenda Alliance 's roundtable meeting on girls' exclusion from...
Apr 9


Trustee Recruitment
We're looking for Trustees! Do you want to help us achieve our vision of a world where young women and girls are free from oppression and...
Apr 3


National Child Exploitation Awareness Day
Today is National Child Exploitation Awareness Day. According to the Government’s 2024 National Referral Mechanism statistics , out of...
Mar 18


International Women's Day 2025
In reflecting on International Women's Day 2025 and Abianda's efforts to mark the event this year, it is perhaps unsurprising that I have...
Mar 8


Thanks MP Eshalomi
Thank you to Florence Eshalomi MP for continuing to champion the needs of young women and girls affected by criminal exploitation and...
Oct 23, 2024


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...
Sep 25, 2024


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...
Aug 16, 2024


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 17, 2024


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...
Jun 13, 2024


International Women's Month
We may have missed International Women's Day (although we like to think that every day at A bianda is International Women's Day...), but...
Mar 20, 2024


Safe Spaces Conference
On 27 February, our Services and Safeguarding Lead Fiona headed to the "Shaping Tomorrow: Creating Safe Spaces for Girls and Women"...
Mar 12, 2024


Criminal Exploitation Report
This month, the Centre for Social Justice and Justice & Care released a new report 'Criminal Exploitation: Modern Slavery by Another...
Feb 14, 2024


School Exclusions
We are concerned with figures from Agenda Alliance's analysis showing that Black Caribbean, mixed Black, Irish Traveller and Gypsy/Roma...
Feb 13, 2024


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 7, 2024


Online Harms Event
Yesterday evening, Abianda attended 'Exploring Policing Online: The Conversation Continues', an event facilitated by Met Police and young...
Feb 1, 2024


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...
Jan 17, 2024


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 21, 2023


Solution-focused Training
The Abianda team attended 6 sessions of solution-focused training with the amazing Luke Goldie-McSorley from Essex Solution Focused...
Dec 8, 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 31, 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 18, 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...
Oct 13, 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 15, 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 14, 2023

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