Women's Party, Abortion Rights & Environment

Firstly – don’t forget the Women’s Party, this Sunday 18th November at 7pm in the Fusion. The event is for women only and is alcohol free. We’ll have a veggie food buffet, fabulous DJs, dance performances, the chance to check out our women’s library, henna tattoos, and stalls with information about other women’s groups in Sheffield. Hope to see you all there.

And now on to an update on my week… I’ve continued planning for Equality Week, including meeting with various representative committees to plan our activities, and writing up lots of information leaflets and publicity for the week. Equality Week takes place in week 9, that’s beginning November 26th so please look out for our events in that week.

I’ve also had several meetings about our Environment objective. Our Union is entering the Sound Impact awards, which are designed to evaluate the environmental performance of students’ unions, so we’ve been working on evaluating our current performance. I also met with the University’s energy and environment team to discuss how we can work together to address the union and university’s environmental impact.

On Tuesday we had our first women’s committee social, which is always a nice opportunity to get to know each other away from ‘work’. Women’s Committee meets every Wednesday at 4pm in the Pennines so if you’re interested in finding out more about what we do or how you could get involved please come along.

This week I also spent time contacting MPs asking their views about abortion rights, and trying to arrange meetings so we can discuss the subject in more detail. Early next year MPs will be debating a bill which threatens to restrict women’s access to abortion so it’s an important time to speak to MPs and ensure they are aware of the importance of safe, legal abortion for women’s equality.