What Young Women’s Trust has achieved in 2021
As we come to the end of the year, our Interim Chief Executive, Abi Shapiro reflects on the successes that have been achieved at Young Women’s Trust in 2021.
Voices
Read stories written by young women about their experiences and find out more about our work with updates from the team.
How we worked together to create the Emergency Fund
Rehaila Sharif and Jo Costello, Interim Heads of Membership from Women's Aid Federation of England, explain how we worked together to make the Young Women’s Trust Emergency Fund happen.
£20 benefit uplift is vital for securing my future
Gemma lost her retail job at the start of the pandemic. In this blog she explains what it is like to live on Universal Credit and why the £20 benefit uplift is vital to helping her life and her future.
SAWN tell us how the Emergency Fund helped young women
We hear from Rose at SAWN, a partner organisation who helped to distribute Emergency Fund payments to vulnerable young women.
What it means to be a mum in a pandemic
Samaira talks about being a Mum in a pandemic and shares what she wants from the government.
Lockdown provides new opportunities for young women’s voices to be heard
Mark Gale, our Policy and Campaigns Manager, shares how lockdown has opened up more opportunities for young women to have their voices heard by those who can influence change.
How our Emergency Fund helped vulnerable young women
We spoke to some of the young women who received relief payments from our coronavirus Emergency Fund. In this blog we share their experiences of living through lockdown and how the money helped them.
Looking back on 2020 at Young Women's Trust
Young Women’s Trust has had a busy year, and like so many other organisations around the world we have been reviewing our priorities and increasing our activity to offer more support wherever possible.
How we set up our Emergency Fund
In this week’s blog Suzi Copland, Director of Services, shares how we set up our Emergency Fund in record timing, to help support young women through the coronavirus crisis.
Young women's experiences of the coronavirus crisis
With unemployment quickly rising and disproportionately affecting young women, it is more important than ever that we understand the economic impact of coronavirus on young women.
Why we're worried about young women's jobs
We started our No Young Woman Left Behind campaign because we don’t think that any young woman should be at the back of the queue as the country tries to cope and recover from the coronavirus crisis.
Covid-19 diaries: Navigating mental health provision
Iulia shares her experience of navigating mental health provision during lockdown, being made redundant and her hopes for a future post-Covid.