Recounting Women (360G-SCVO-a11b0000001Sr8gAAC)

The project will support the delivery of the Recounting Women project a partnership between Scottish Women’s Aid, Glasgow East and Perth Women’s Aid. In 2014 we set up a women and welfare reform working group with representation from six Women’s Aid groups from different areas of Scotland. We carried out a mapping exercise to identify the specific impacts of welfare reform on women and children who have experienced domestic abuse. The project is designed to support women with direct experience of these issues to develop their digital skills to be able to use creative approaches, such as photo-voice and digital story-telling, to gather and disseminate evidence about the impact of welfare reform on their lives. The project will develop women’s confidence in using digital technology, build women’s basic digital skills and their use of cameras and video/audio equipment to tell their stories. These methods allow women to anonymously and creatively share information about their experiences helping to raise public awareness and to influence policy decision makers. We will run two Recounting Women groups of up to 10 women in each group, one in Perth and one in east Glasgow.