Agenda's Alliance: who joined us in 2024?

2024 has truly felt like a year where Agenda’s Alliance has gone from strength to strength. We began the year sharing insights from our biggest survey of our alliance members’ vision for the alliance so far. 

The responses were highly positive: it was clear we are seen as a clear, authoritative and intersectional voice on women and girls with multiple unmet needs, that we engage well with our members and women with lived experience, and centre our values in what we do.

Members also told us they want to be part of a growing intersectional feminist cross-sector movement, to drive meaningful change for women and girls experiencing multiple unmet needs.

It’s been brilliant, therefore, to have some incredible new organisations feel motivated to join us across the last 12 months.

Our newest members

At our last Board meeting, we were excited to approve the membership of four new members:

• Safety4Sisters is a specialist by and for women's organisation who address the exclusion of Black and minoritised migrant women with no recourse to public funds from the basic rights of safety and protection. They support black and migratised women who have either currently or historically experienced gendered violence.
  
• LMK works with young people and the adults around them across education settings, community organisations and workplaces to provide non-judgmental relationships education to challenge harmful attitudes and turn the tide on relationships abuse, sexual harassment and misogyny.
  
• IRISi specialise in developing and implementing programmes to improve healthcare responses to gender-based violence, which are delivered in general practice and sexual health services.
  
• Runnymede Trust is the UK’s leading independent race equality think tank who work to challenge race inequality in Britain through research, network building, leading debate and policy engagement.

Other new members this year

We’ve also had the following organisations join us since this time last year:

• Women at The Well specialise in providing holistic, trauma informed support to women affected by or at risk of sexual exploitation.
  
• Turtle Dove Cambridge supports young women aged 14-24 who are at risk of being unemployed by providing development support and events/training to help them build confidence and gain the experience needed to enter employment.
  
• Milk Honey Bees provide a safe space for young Black women and girls to flourish and put H.E.R (Healing, Empowerment and Resilience) first. They support Black girls on their journey of healing whilst equipping them with skills that enable them to mobilise in their communities and advocate for social change.
  
• Collective Voice advocate for a drug treatment and recovery system in England that reduces harm and nurtures recovery, and for the vital role of charities in delivering this.
  
• Restorative Justice 4 All embrace the values of restorative justice to support individuals, groups or families who have been harmed or may have caused harm to others, including preventative and holistic support for the community.