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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...

Jul 27, 2023

About Us and With Us: A Youth Best Practice Event

Yesterday our Participation Lead Alex attended London's Violence Reduction Unit Young People's Action Group's 'About Us and With Us: A...

Jul 19, 2023

Keeping Girls and Young Women Safe Report

Young women and girls are often overlooked by services in relation to child criminal exploitation. A new report 'Keeping Girls and Young...

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