At the end of last year, our wonderful new Head of Partnerships and Development  Antoinette Wood   reflects on the Youth Endowment Fund's Children, Violence and Vulnerability 2025: Exploitation and Gangs report . As the year draws to a close, I’ve been reflecting on what really matters in the work I do, and where I want to be putting my energy. What’s already clear in my first couple of weeks at Abianda, is how closely our values align. A shared belief that young women and gi

At Abianda we work with young women and girls affected by criminal exploitation and violence. As part of our reflections of this year’s 16 Days of Activism, Fee (Head of Programmes for Borough Provision) sat down with Sophie (Admin & Operations Intern) to talk about what she thinks it's important that we highlight about this year’s theme of Digital Harm, with the young women and girls we work with in mind.  We started off by reflecting on the statement provided by a statement

This year's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence theme is “UNiTE to End Digital Violence against All Women and Girls”. Our Young Women's Practitioner reflects on the campaign's theme and why it is important to the work that Abianda does: This campaign validates what young women and girls go through and helps them see they're not the only ones dealing with this. The campaign reinforces that digital violence counts as actual violence, so we can recognise the real

Abianda's Young Women's Advisory Group (YWAG) have been looking into the 16 days of Activism and were asked to share their thoughts on a particular aspect of Digital Violence. They were asked the following questions on their topic, focusing on Cyberbullying... Why this topic is important to you individually? This topic is important to me as I have seen how negatively cyberbullying affects people’s mental health. Especially young people who are already going through many tran

On 13 November 2025, the NSPCC released an article detailing findings from their research into the online grooming of children through End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) messaging platforms with some extremely concerning statistics. In the same month, OnSide Youth Zones published Generation Isolation, a report highlighting the social lives of young people and the ways in which digital spaces shape their connections and experiences, where it highlighted that young people spend 48% of

Earlier this year, our Young Women's Advisory Group (YWAG) and Intern participated in a workshop on Imagining Resistance. The workshop was a part of research project by Prof. Kristi Langhoff (University of Sussex), Dr Camille Warrington (University of Bedfordshire) and Becky Warnock (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London). Through this research, the team have designed a practical resource to support work with young people - an interactive deck of card

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

I am Abianda’s Admin and Operations Intern. As a young woman it was hard to watch the Netflix Adolescence series - I have heard lots of...

We support the campaign for accountability  launched by Maggie Oliver. In our work with young women and girls affected by...

On the 9th of April, I attended a wonderful event organised by London Youth with my colleagues in our Participation team. It was a...

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

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

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...

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

One of the members of Abianda's Young Women's Advisory Group participated in Missing People and Listen Up 's research for their report...

Abianda condemns the racist and Islamophobic violence we have seen escalating throughout our communities in recent weeks.  Our thoughts...

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...

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

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

Today, 18 October, is the EU Anti-Trafficking Day. Girls facing criminal exploitation in the UK are regularly victims of trafficking....