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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


Waltham Forest + Abianda
Abianda’s Participation team worked with young women from Waltham Forest’s Young Advisors (YA) and Youth Independent Advisory Group...
Sep 4, 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 23, 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 21, 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 8, 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...
Aug 2, 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 27, 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...
Jul 19, 2023


Open Letter to the Government on Child Sexual Abuse
We are proud to have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman calling for...
May 26, 2023

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