Aims and Objectives of the Network

Aim:

To facilitate, encourage, support and work both with and for women from minority ethnic communities in Lancashire to enable them to identify, access and participate in economic and social opportunities.

Objectives:

To share and exchange good practice between member organisations in order to facilitate and improve services for women - particularly health, education, training and employment areas.

To offer advice and consultancy to employers and service providers and to share good practice and to encourage and facilitate positive action.

To develop partnerships and organisational capacity in order to ensure a more coherent and effective approach in addressing the needs of minority ethnic women in employment and service delivery areas – e.g. childcare, flexible working patterns, discrimination, domestic violence, hate crime, community cohesion and cultural issues.

To provide training opportunities to improve personal and professional development.

To seek agency support and funding to achieve the above objectives for women both in the network and in the community.