Breaking Barriers and Building Belief

Julia Lee WomenCentre Ambassador – My Journey from the Pitch to Purpose   If you’d told a younger me — a proud Hull Kingston Rovers fan stood on the terraces in my red and white scarf — that one day I’d be in the middle of a rugby pitch surrounded by 26 men...

Black History Month 2025

Black History Month: Exploring the Link Between Being Black and Experiences of Domestic Abuse When Race and Abuse Intersect: Why We Need to Talk About Being Black and a Survivor Domestic abuse can happen to anyone — but for Black women and other women of colour, there...

Menopause Awareness Month 2025

Menopause Awareness Month 2025 October is Menopause Awareness Month – a time to shine a spotlight on a topic that affects half the population but is still too often whispered about or brushed aside. If you’re going through perimenopause or menopause (or think you...

40 Years of WomenCentre – The Story

Our story started over 40 years ago in both Calderdale and Kirklees where two organisations Calderdale Well Woman Association and Womenspace were set up to support local women. In 2008 the organisations merged creating WomenCentre as we know it today. WomenCentre, is...