Safe World For Women?

It's incredibly frustrating to see story after story about how women are oppressed around the world and feel like there's nothing you can do to make a difference, and your government is equally ineffectual.

Safe World For Women is an organisation which says it wants to address that problem and has come up with a way which aims to help us to support and empower those women. In order to grow and be effective SWFW needs people to know about them, financial support and volunteers who can bring their skills and social contacts. Please check it out.



SAFE WORLD FOR WOMEN

The Safeworld International Foundation (Safe World for Women) is a women-led not-for-profits organisation working with grassroots groups to promote the rights of women and children.

We believe that women’s empowerment and sustainable development are key to tackling the root causes of poverty and oppression, and will bring about positive social and economic change at a global level. Furthermore, grassroots initiatives are key to bringing about positive change in a culturally-sustainable way.

Independent from government, corporate, religious or political interests, we highlight abuse of women's rights throughout the world, educate and mobilize the public, and campaign to improve policy and attitudes.

Webzine

The hub of our work is our webzine.

It provides a platform for grassroots groups and serves as a resource of articles on women’s rights issues, including our interviews with women human rights defenders.

Our webzine is updated daily, and features important issues impacting women and children, campaigns for rights defenders and profiles the work of grassroots organisations

With our team of correspondents on the ground, we work to abolish human trafficking and slavery, domestic violence, poverty, war crimes and all forms of abuse of women and children. We campaign for women's rights advocates who have been unjustly detained.

Field Partners

Safeworld forms partnerships with small, grassroots groups and organisations throughout the world - Field Partners.


"Our underlying principle is that grassroots groups are best-placed to bring about behavioural change in a culturally-sensitive and sustainable way, through their established relationship with local leaders, schools, communities and beneficiaries, and local knowledge.

Through working with locally-based groups, we can help to make sustainable changes in a culturally-sensitive and empowering way.
Please help us to help others!"
Chris Crowstaff, Founder, Safe World for Women

Safeworld Field Partners are community groups and organisations, working with women and children at a regional level, dealing directly with issues such as poverty, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, conflict, rape, child marriage, child labour, access to education, social and cultural exclusion, isolation, marginalisation, and stigmatisation.

Many of our Field Partners do not have a website of their own, and most of them do not have an online fundraising facility.

The Safe World webzine provides our Field Partners with a 'window to the world', helping to raise their profile, give them a voice and to connect them with potential funders.

For selected Field Partners, we set up fundraising appeals, so that supporters can donate online to them via our Paypal account.

Volunteers


We are all volunteers and our diverse, multi-cultural team isspread throughout the globe.

Social Media

Through our extensive social media network, we connect women and women’s organisations from different backgrounds and cultures, in order to promote dialogue and collaboration on key issues affecting women and children. We collaborate in campaigns with other advocacy organisations.

Safe World is active on the social media, with over 19,000 followers on Twitter and over 5,000 supporters on Facebook.

Advocacy and Mainstream Media


As well as advocating via our webzine and the social media, we also advocate for women human rights defenders via our contacts in the mainstream media in the UK and France, arranging interviews, media tours and events.

Student Writers

We help to amplify the voices of young people, through our Student Writers Project – a platform for young people to write about issues that concern them and their communities. The project gives university students, both women and men, a chance to gain experience in the field of women's rights and journalism.

A Safe World for Women is a safe world for all.

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Safe World is independent of any government, political or religious ideology or commercial interest and we depend entirely on private donations.


http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/about/the-ngo.html
mood2 Posts: 24Joined: Sun Sep 09, 2012 7:37 pm

Interesting looking charity - but I can't find any reference to them on the UK charity commission site. Could be that they haven't completed their formal registration yet. The other thing that concerns me is that the woman in charge of the organisation has a homoeopathy qualification.

Other than that they seem to have worthy goals and on the site they claim that they have no affiliation with any religion or political organisation.

I'd not heard of them before someone posted about them on the Secular Cafe board, but he doesn't know much about them either. I don't know about their charitable status (I made a donation and there was no 'Gift Aid' option so I assume they're not a registered charity, yet at least)> They call themselves a non-profit company limited by guarantee, which I had to look up - wiki says this ' In British and Irish company law, a private company limited by guarantee is an alternative type of corporation used primarily for non-profit organisations that require legal personality.' cont'd' here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_company_limited_by_guarantee

I wasn't trying to imply anything untoward about them, but I always like to know the background of charities before I hand over any money. In the UK the charity commission site is really handy.

http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/

Given that they aren't a charity then I was able to look up their company number on the Companies House site:

https://www.companieshouse.gov.uk

That yeilded these details:

Name & Registered Office:
THE SAFEWORLD INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
DALTON HOUSE
60 WINDSOR AVENUE
LONDON
ENGLAND
SW19 2RR
Company No. 06712633




Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 01/10/2008

Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Nature of Business (SIC):
58190 - Other publishing activities
Accounting Reference Date: 30/09
Last Accounts Made Up To: 31/03/2011 (TOTAL EXEMPTION SMALL)
Next Accounts Due: 05/01/2013
Last Return Made Up To: 01/10/2012
Next Return Due: 29/10/2013
Previous Names:
Date of change Previous Name
17/06/2011 THE WFAC INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
25/03/2009 WFAC

AR01 05/11/2012 01/10/12 NO MEMBER LIST

AA01 10/10/2012 CURRSHO FROM 31/03/2012 TO 30/09/2011

TM01 28/03/2012 APPOINTMENT TERMINATED, DIRECTOR FERNANDA AMARAL

AA 06/01/2012 31/03/11 TOTAL EXEMPTION SMALL

AP01 02/11/2011 DIRECTOR APPOINTED MS CLARA BOXALL

AR01 31/10/2011 01/10/11 NO MEMBER LIST

AD02 31/10/2011 SAIL ADDRESS CHANGED FROM:
C/O CHRIS CROWSTAFF
BRICKLES COTTAGE LYDLINCH COMMON
STURMINSTER NEWTON
DORSET
UNITED KINGDOM

CH01 31/10/2011 DIRECTOR'S CHANGE OF PARTICULARS / MRS CHRISTINE HELEN CROWSTAFF / 26/09/2011

CH03 31/10/2011 SECRETARY'S CHANGE OF PARTICULARS / MRS CHRISTINE HELEN CROWSTAFF / 26/09/2011

AD03 01/07/2011 REGISTER(S) MOVED TO SAIL ADDRESS
114-REG MEM
162-REG DIR
228-DIR SERV CONT
237-DIR INDEM
275-REG SEC
358-REC OF RES ETC
743-REG DEB
877-INST CREATE CHARGES:EW & NI

AD02 01/07/2011 SAIL ADDRESS CREATED

RES01 24/06/2011 ADOPT ARTICLES 22/06/2011

CERTNM 17/06/2011 COMPANY NAME CHANGED THE WFAC INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
CERTIFICATE ISSUED ON 17/06/11

RES15 17/06/2011 CHANGE OF NAME 16/06/2011

NM01 17/06/2011 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME BY RESOLUTION

AD01 25/05/2011 REGISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 25/05/2011 FROM
1 RIVERSIDE HOUSE HERON WAY
NEWHAM
TRURO
CORNWALL
TR1 2XN

AR01 12/10/2010 01/10/10 NO MEMBER LIST

AA 06/10/2010 ACCOUNTS OF DORMANT COMPANY MADE UP TO 31/03/10

TM01 06/05/2010 APPOINTMENT TERMINATED, DIRECTOR JANE YOUNG

AP01 05/05/2010 DIRECTOR APPOINTED MS FERNANDA PATTARO AMARAL

AR01 06/11/2009 01/10/09 NO MEMBER LIST

CH01 06/11/2009 DIRECTOR'S CHANGE OF PARTICULARS / JANE TEMPLETON YOUNG / 01/10/2009

CH01 06/11/2009 DIRECTOR'S CHANGE OF PARTICULARS / CHRISTINE HELEN CROWSTAFF / 01/10/2009

MEM/ARTS 05/10/2009 MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

RES13 05/10/2009 REGISTERED OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY BE CHANGED

225 24/09/2009 CURREXT FROM 31/10/2009 TO 31/03/2010

288b 15/06/2009 APPOINTMENT TERMINATED DIRECTOR EVELINE SMITH

MEM/ARTS 08/04/2009 MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

288b 21/03/2009 APPOINTMENT TERMINATED DIRECTOR LYNDAL BALE

CERTNM 19/03/2009 COMPANY NAME CHANGED WFAC
CERTIFICATE ISSUED ON 25/03/09

288a 12/11/2008 DIRECTOR APPOINTED EVELINE MARIA SMITH

288a 12/11/2008 DIRECTOR APPOINTED LYNDAL ANNE BALE

NEWINC 01/10/2008 INCORPORATION DOCUMENTS
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS & REGISTERED OFFICE
DECLARATION OF COMPLIANCE
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION