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Introducing Our New Trustees - Ayoni
Introducing Our Trustees Over the past 11 years, Abianda has built a strong reputation for amplifying girls’ and young women’s voices and influencing systems to work better for them. As we look to the future and deliver on our three-year strategic plan, we’re thrilled to introduce the incredible people helping to guide that vision - our Board of Trustees. Each trustee brings unique experience, passion, and leadership to Abianda’s work. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing
Oct 20, 2025


Taking Back Power Blog
Our Young Women's Advisory Group (YWAG) contributed to Taking back power: Young women reflect on exploitation, support, and regaining their agency . This was in collaboration with the Alliance for Youth Justice in support of their new briefing Exploited to exploiter? Preventing the unjust criminalisation of victims of child criminal exploitation in the transition to adulthood . The YWAG shared reflections on young women's experiences of criminal exploitation and how profess
Sep 30, 2025


EmpowHer Event
We attended the EmpowHer event organised by the Lewisham VRT on 28 August which was made to empower and inspire young women from the...
Sep 16, 2025


ECPAT More Than Words Report
Helping Shape the “More Than Words” Report with Abianda and ECPAT UK Being part of the conversations that helped shape the ECPAT UK “More...
Jul 24, 2025


Anger Volcano at NHYC
Our Participation team headed to New Horizon Youth Centre this June for their Women's Drop In session. We delivered our Anger Volcano...
Jun 17, 2025


Values Session at the Running Charity
Last week, the Participation team had a session with The Running Charity , delivering our Values session. We are so grateful to be...
Jun 5, 2025


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, 2025


Exclusion Roundtable
Last week, our Services and Safeguarding Lead Fiona participated in Agenda Alliance 's roundtable meeting on girls' exclusion from...
Apr 9, 2025


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, 2025


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


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


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


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

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