Islington's Violence against Women and Girls Conference
Our team headed to Islington's Violence against Women and Girls conference on 28 November. Our Founder and CEO Abi shares her experience...
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- Nov 28, 2022
Enfield Council's White Ribbon Day Event
On Friday, our team headed to Enfield Council to speak at their White Ribbon Day event. Our Rescue and Response Lead Alex spoke alongside...
- Nov 21, 2022
Safeguarding Adults Week 2022
At Abianda we passionately believe in the six principles of the Care Act 2014 - empowerment, prevention, proportionality, partnership,...
- Oct 13, 2022
Lambeth's Borough Plan
On 11 October, our Contextual Safeguarding Lead Fiona attended a session at Marcus Lipton Youth Club to discuss Lambeth's Borough Plan....
- Oct 13, 2022
Catch22 + Abianda
On 11 October, we had over 30 professionals attend our training 'Working with Young Women and Girls Affected by Gangs and County Lines'...
- Sep 27, 2022
Abianda travels to Wales
On 21 September, our team headed to Llandudno, Wales to deliver training to Amethyst Sexual Assault Referral Centre. We covered our...
- Sep 15, 2022
Tackling Youth Violence
Our Rescue & Response Gender Consultant Lucia headed to Ealing. Here are her reflections on the Tackling Youth Violence Network event....
- Jul 21, 2022
Commission on Young Lives Roundtable
We're pleased to lend our expertise to the Commission on Young Lives and Agenda's roundtable discussion on how to support young women at...
- Jul 20, 2022
MP Emily Thornberry visits Abianda
Thank you to MP Emily Thornberry for visiting our office on 15 July. Emily is the Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury and the...
- Jun 17, 2022
National Investigators Safeguarding Exercise
This week, 3 team members attended a 2-day Hydra training along with @metpoliceUK by the National County Lines Coordination Centre. They...
- Jun 13, 2022
Abi meets with MP Emily Thornberry to discuss how to best support survivors of sexual violence
Today our Founder and CEO Abi Billinghurst met with MP Emily Thornberry in our home borough of Islington. The meeting was to discuss the...
- May 4, 2022
Abianda's April 2022 Newsletter
Learn more about our upcoming training, recruitment, our participation team and our social media topic of the month......
- Apr 28, 2022
“We need girls and young women to be heard instead of harmed."
Justice system in England and Wales ‘risks causing fresh trauma to girls’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/04/uk-justice-syst...
- Apr 28, 2022
We are thrilled to be hosting an Individual Training session on the 4th July 2022
Working with Young Women and Girls Affected by Gangs and County Lines. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-with-young-women-and-girls-...
- Apr 20, 2022
Reflection on Reflections
Young Woman Intern 2022 We started the session by exploring Abianda’s “word glossary” which examines different terminology professionals...
- Apr 8, 2022
What does confidentiality mean?
This graphic was created by our Intern.
- Apr 7, 2022
Our Voices Conference 2022
We invite you to join Abianda’s Participation Team in exploring creative, participatory and youth-centred approaches when working with...
- Apr 1, 2022
Abianda at the Europaeum
This year was my 3rd year talking on The Scholars Programme at The Europaeum on 15 March. On the surface it might seem like an unlikely...
- Mar 29, 2022
Meet the Board!
Our Board of Directors has a wide range of professional expertise, including youth work, participatory practice, research, and...
- Mar 25, 2022
Abianda's statement in response to the Child Q case
Trigger warning Over recent weeks the Abianda team have been fortunate to have training from Listen Up on intersectionality and...
- Mar 16, 2022
Look Closer: The Children's Society + Abianda
On 16 March, our Schools and Islington Lead Amanda presented a talk as part of The Children's Society's #LookCloser campaign with the...
- Mar 8, 2022
International Women's Day
On 8 March, one of our young women interns shared this beautiful poem with us.
- Feb 23, 2022
Abi's reflections on the last 2 years
As has been the case for many small voluntary sector organisations, the last two years have been tough. The Abianda team has continued to...
- Feb 17, 2022
Social Enterprise Mark approved!
We are proud to have met the externally assessed Social Enterprise accreditation criteria and renewed our Social Enterprise Mark for the...
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