The Women's Centres Regional Partnership (WCRP) is an emerging partnership of four lead regional women's organisations linking with fourteen frontline women's organisations across Northern Ireland. This new partnership has emerged from the report of the Review Group on women's organisations providing support and services to disadvantaged areas. Read more

The four key lead partners of the Partnership are the Women's Resource and Development Agency (WRDA), Women's Support Network (WSN), Northern Ireland Rural Women's Network (NIRWN) and The Women's Centre, Derry. The fourteen Women's Centres are spread across Northern Ireland with seven from the Greater Belfast and Lisburn area, four in the North West and three in Dungannon, Magherafelt and Craigavon. Together the WCRP seeks to develop and strengthen a regional infrastructure which will support community based women's organisations across Northern Ireland.
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The WCRP vision is of communities where women are recognised and valued as equal partners working towards a future based upon shared values of equality, partecipation and inclusion and our mission statement is to work in partnership to support and strenghten the voice of community based women's organisations. Read more

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Latest News and Events

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• JANUARY 2010 - WCRP looking for Consultant to conduct a visioning exercise and facilitate a process to review the strategic identity of the WCRP. Click here to read more.

• WCRP "Women Living in Disadvantaged Communities: Barriers to Participation" report launched on the 22nd October 2009. Click here to read more. 

• WCRP response to Gordon Brown's announcement to axe the Childcare Voucher Scheme. Click here to read more

• Response to the "Equality Impact Assessment of Welfare Reform Bill 2009" prepared by the WCRP Policy Subgroup available here

• WCRP in the North West will launch local Live and Learn project on the 7th September 2009 - click here to read more

Contacts

Contacts for all Women's Centres Regional Partners are shown here.