Women’s Action Network Dorset hosts Dorset Women’s Day

1:00pm Tuesday 5th March 2013 in News By Harry Hogger

CELEBRATION: WAND march through Dorchester CELEBRATION: WAND march through Dorchester

WOMEN will be getting together to enjoy a range of activities and workshops at an event in Dorchester.

WAND, the Women’s Action Network Dorset, is hosting its annual Dorset Women’s Day event at the Dorford Centre in the county town on Saturday.

The event is being held to celebrate International Women’s Day and will be opened by WAND patron and local broadcaster Tracey West, who will also be reading extracts from her latest book – The Poetry of Divorce – on the day.

Admission to the event, which runs from 10.30am to 4pm, is free and organisers are promising that there will be lots to keep all women of all ages entertained.

WAND member Jackie Young and her staff will be putting offering free crèche facilities and there will be a chance to buy homemade cakes and refreshments created by WAND volunteers.

A spokeswoman for WAND said: “There will be something for everyone, from a host of stallholders selling a variety of wonderful items to appeal to women of all ages, plus information stands promoting everything relating to womanhood as well as a varied and exciting range of workshops.”

The workshops include jewellery making with long-time WAND supporter Cath Coffin and a singing workshop with WAND member Hilary Foggo, as well as the returned of Vicky Gray’s popular House of Colour workshop.

There will also be a dance workshop, insights into book publishing and opportunities for women to try their hands at crafts such as creating a sock animal.

There will be new additions to this year’s event as well including the Rummage Room, which will give people attending the chance to donate unwanted clothes, jewellery and other items for WAND to sell and raise funds for their annual Reclaim the Night March.

For more information about the day contact Emma on 01202 252204 or Toni on 01305 848689.

Comments(22)

sparkleeye says...
1:49pm Tue 5 Mar 13

Yet if you had men only clubs and events you would be screamed at by the same people, called a misogynist exercising their patriarchal oppression blah blah yap yap... and then very likely prosecuted.

Our local councils have already banned posters for international men's day from their buildings, then just ignored complaints about it. Deleted male victims of domestic violence comments of disgust on their social networks, while keeping on a female councillor who was a violent criminal and committed D.V on her husband, a female that used to officially support and be very involved with these very groups I might add.

What rank hypocrisy !


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http://www.avoicefor
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Sit back, enjoy and oh, watch out for the usual tactics ;-

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Von Karajan says...
2:33pm Tue 5 Mar 13

How patronising! I notice the organisers haven't put on any bricklaying courses or how to change a spare wheel if your car has a puncture?

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shy talk says...
2:51pm Tue 5 Mar 13

Sock animals!! Any females in a household and the missing sock fairy moves in with them.

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Von Karajan says...
3:20pm Tue 5 Mar 13

Is it true that the Chippendales will be there putting on their interpretation of ' The Full Monty'?

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sparkleeye says...
9:22pm Tue 5 Mar 13

" WAND to sell and raise funds for their annual Reclaim the Night March. " Which of course is a female only event and so far men are always banned from it? Yes very "equality".

Can you imagine a men only event that bans women and spends the whole night declaring them perpetrators of everything evil and victims of nothing?

Anything to do with these groups, just reverse the gender mentioned and you instantly see how intolerable it really is to any civilised person.

Now, Reclaim the night movement/network is just that, it is not a registered charity, neither is WAND. They are all therefore unaccountable to anyone. Even so these groups have the direct ear and access of our gullible police officials, M.P's, senior council officials and of course elected officials.

"Dorset women's day" by WAND has also been sponsored by the following bodies and company's:

West Dorset District Council, Dorset Cereals, Dorset Squared, McCarthy and Stone, Olives et Al, Poundbury Garden Centre, ReplensMD and Vitabiotics.

Yet they are not a registered charity or an official body?

They also meet in big meetings where men's groups are not invited and male victims and men's needs are deliberately ignored.

Sound transparent, democratic or anything to do with equality does it? No, exactly.

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susieb755 says...
7:36pm Wed 6 Mar 13

I am a WAND member and am somewhat bemused at the above comments !
Why do some men moan about us being having womens events and organisations?- they could actually get off their bottoms and organise their own events - after all WI has been around a long time but still no mens institute!
Men can and have come to womens day, and lots of women really enjoy it!

The event that was sponsored by the above quoted comment was a few years ago - as a voluntary constituted group we were proud to have worked so hard to get sponsorship to put on a free day attended by over 500 people.Not sure why sparkleeyes has a problem with this ?
The people organising the FREE event and running the workshops give their time and energy free of charge - any offers of bricklaying etc would have been greatly appreciated = where were they I wonder????!!

Oh - the reason men don't get invited to reclaim is as we have some very vulnerable women attending who are fleeing DV ,and yes , of course we are aware that men are victims too, so I am sure any mens groups out there would be happy to run a similar event for men? wouldn't they?

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susieb755 says...
7:40pm Wed 6 Mar 13

Oh, and we don't meet in big meetings - as there are so few of us in the committee, we meet at each others houses over coffee !

Perhaps sparkleeyes has mixed us up with someone else? not just a bunch of friendly women having fun...

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jinglejangle says...
9:07pm Wed 6 Mar 13

Mankind initiative

01823 334244

Mon - fri 10 - 4 and 7 - 9 pm

mankind.org.uk

Helpline for male victims of domestic violence/abuse

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susieb755 says...
9:44pm Wed 6 Mar 13

Thanks JingleJangle - we were sad when the Dorchester Mankind closed, good to know they are still out there

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jinglejangle says...
9:47am Thu 7 Mar 13

After reading several negative comments over a few articles within the echo regarding awareness events for female victims/survivors of DV, rather than have a rant and do nothing constructive i contacted mankind to ensure their contact details were still valid. no one , male or female should be subjected to domestic violence, and promotion and awareness is highly important. the male support network is 'behind' the female support network but this could change if more males supported and promoted the service. domestic violence can happen to anyone regardless of gender or sexual orientation. instead of belittling a service that has saved many lives and given victims/survivors and their children the opportunity to live a life away from fear, use that negative energy to build a positive awareness for your fellow men.

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susieb755 says...
6:18pm Thu 7 Mar 13

You sound eminently sensible jingle jangle, and if you ever wanted to set up a men' network, we would happily give you the benefit of our knowledge, minimal though it is !

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jinglejangle says...
7:33pm Thu 7 Mar 13

Thanks susieb but i think a male network would be best set up and operated by males

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earlofplunket says...
6:36pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Not everyone is so vacant as to believe it is all sweetness and light behind your group. The politics are well known as are your tactics.

So on the issue of meetings, why did you not invite a men's group to the meeting with police, council and yourselves. Do you not care about the near 50% of victims that are men?

It is obvious a group that only cares about one gender, is bigoted and sexist.

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earlofplunket says...
6:39pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Also when you ask why men don't have their own thing...well my first paragraph already answered that. Funny how you hypocrites are happy to have women only this and women only that with men ostracised, yet if men do the same it is sexist.


WAND is nothing but a spoke in a feminist hate group wheel.

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earlofplunket says...
6:47pm Fri 8 Mar 13

It's no coincidence that Erin Pizzey, the founder of women's refuges has come out to speak against the women's groups behind the Abuse industry and expose their false statistics and dirty business, is it?

It is all in the links at the top.

P.S Where was your voice when our cllr. Christine James beat her husband and was convicted for domestic violence?

You are soon on it when a man simply says something bad as we have seen this week? So why did you stay quiet when a woman did it? After all you say yourself it is not right when either do it, so how come?

..or was it aside form being a woman, it was also because she was helping women's groups you raise money?

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earlofplunket says...
7:09pm Fri 8 Mar 13

When you shout so loud against female perpetrators and speak of ALL victims instead of just women, maybe I will think otherwise of you.

In a civilised country all gender based groups should be banned as they are ridiculous really, all resources should be allocated based on need. Clearly everything from Cancer research to domestic violence the funding is grotesquely disproportionate to the figures in the favour of women.

Why don't you complain about that if you care so much about ALL victims?.

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JamesYoung says...
7:40pm Fri 8 Mar 13

jinglejangle wrote:
Thanks susieb but i think a male network would be best set up and operated by males
Yes, we should ask that women are removed from Childline too.
53% of child murders are perpetrated by mothers.

Just kidding, but statistics are fun.

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woodsedge says...
8:05pm Fri 8 Mar 13

earlofplunket wrote:
When you shout so loud against female perpetrators and speak of ALL victims instead of just women, maybe I will think otherwise of you.

In a civilised country all gender based groups should be banned as they are ridiculous really, all resources should be allocated based on need. Clearly everything from Cancer research to domestic violence the funding is grotesquely disproportionate to the figures in the favour of women.

Why don't you complain about that if you care so much about ALL victims?.
earlofphunket, Cecil welcome back into society!

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JamesYoung says...
10:16pm Fri 8 Mar 13

woodsedge wrote:
earlofplunket wrote:
When you shout so loud against female perpetrators and speak of ALL victims instead of just women, maybe I will think otherwise of you.

In a civilised country all gender based groups should be banned as they are ridiculous really, all resources should be allocated based on need. Clearly everything from Cancer research to domestic violence the funding is grotesquely disproportionate to the figures in the favour of women.

Why don't you complain about that if you care so much about ALL victims?.
earlofphunket, Cecil welcome back into society!
heehee, i thought i recognized the style!

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earlofplunket says...
10:49am Mon 11 Mar 13

JamesYoung wrote:
jinglejangle wrote:
Thanks susieb but i think a male network would be best set up and operated by males
Yes, we should ask that women are removed from Childline too.
53% of child murders are perpetrated by mothers.

Just kidding, but statistics are fun.
Welcome back comments !

Deleted for a couple of days by the Echo zombies, then put back up when it was raised on two other stories with someone who had their comments deleted also.

Screen grabs kept.


They are assisting well it seems to make others aware of what feminism is, the nastiness and hypocrisy that resides behind these groups and how it has to rely on lies and dirty tactics to operate.


Anyway, It's not kidding at all James, around 64% of child abuse across the board is perpetrated by women, but you won't hear them demonise women in their propaganda do you, why not? Why si nearly all TV adverts showing the male as the perpetrator? You will rarely see these women get arrested let alone found guilty and even if they are on average women get far lower sentences for the same crimes.

Equality..yeah right ?

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My style? does it show? Really :;-)

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earlofplunket says...
10:51am Mon 11 Mar 13

What about the comments on the other propaganda articles you deleted Echo? ...or was those questions and this groups hypocrisy/lies being pointed out with facts getting too much?

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susieb755 says...
7:53pm Mon 11 Mar 13

Oh dear, there really is little point in trying to talk sense to some people....

We havent had a closed meeting with councillors and police - we have held a drop in event open to everyone, and widely publicised...

We are not political, we are just ordinary women, doing what we want - many of us married to ( real )MEN who don't feel threatened by females supporting each other, and many of us have SONS who we love dearly, so we are definitely not anti men!

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