Delighted to attend the launch tonight of the Women’s Grassroots Activism – Toolkit 100+, the outcome of the great work carried out by the UKRI AHRC funded project “Women’s Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland: 1918 to the present”. We were privileged to play a small collaborative role in the project, providing workshops to the participants on the power of objects in preserving the history of female activism and in promoting powerful messages to the public.
This project ran from August 2023-January 2025 and set out to identify how grassroots women’s organisations can co-identify strategies to safeguard their future activities and activism for the next 100+ years. The network worked hand-in-hand with participant women’s organisations including the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA); the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI); the Federation of Women’s Institutes of Northern Ireland (WINI); the Soroptimists Tunbridge Wells and District Club; Soroptimists South East Region; Soroptimists Republic of Ireland and Soroptimists Northern Ireland, all affiliated to the Soroptimists International Great Britain and Ireland (SIGBI). Together these groups represent over 200,000 women enabling members to come together for friendship, education, crafting and activism. Huge congratulations to the project lead Caitriona Beaumont and her team, who have created an important and accessible resource to guide women’s grassroots activism in the next one hundred years!
Scéal Heritage Consultancy 