WomenCentre have now been formally awarded the level 2 Quality 4 Health, quality assurance award for our services across Kirklees and Calderdale. Julie Robinson, Chief Officer, VAC presented the official award to the Calderdale team supported by Debbie Winder - Deputy...

Steph Mallas, our Deputy CEO joined the Town Centre Policing team as an independent audit partner of the Ask for Angela scheme in Huddersfield. Ask for Angela is a discreet phrase for anyone who finds themselves in a difficult orintimidating situation on a night out,...

It is with great pleasure and honour to inform you all that our very own Zenebu will be receiving an honorary doctorate for all the work that she has done to improve lives of refugees in Huddersfield. Zenebu Hailu Dubale is a refugee from Ethiopia who has made...

OVERCOMING HARDSHIP by Senada Dervisevic How do you cope growing up from having a care free childhood to suddenly being rounded up by soldiers marching in to your village and taking over? Senada was 9 when the army surrounded her once peaceful town, and life changed...

WomenCentre Homes is delighted and very excited to have received a grant of £177,379 from The National Lottery Community Fund. WomenCentre Homes primary charitable object is to create social housing to meet the needs of women and their children. Our ultimate goal is...

Over six years WomenCentre worked on Connecting Opportunities, a project set-up to work with new migrants in West Yorkshire and parts of North Yorkshire to develop skills and opportunities to find work and be part of the local community, funded by the European Social...

Greener Together is a Calderdale partnership led by Newground Together, that aims to develop Green Places and Spaces for a Greener sustainable future. Partners and early achievers on the programme got together recently at the Outback, to celebrate success and share...

WomenCentre is runner up in Glaxo Smith Kline National Awards 2022   GSK 2022 Impact Awards in partnership with The King’s Fund – WomenCentre was shortlisted for a GSK IMPACT Award and were one of the ten runners up receiving £4,000. Additional support has also...

Let’s get behind WomenCentre! Light up our Summer WomenCentre is a local charity, doing amazing work right across Calderdale. They provide vital support to over 1500 women each year, helping women to rebuild their lives and find hope and friendship after periods of...

It’s taken me some time to write this blog for Womenentre. I always think that I have nothing to say of any importance and, others may be surprised to learn, that I too succumb to moments of imposter syndrome. However, I felt that at this joyous time of the Queen’s...