The Keighley Association Women & Children's Centre

Updated: 13/09/2018

Solution provider

United Kingdom
The charity continually undertakes intense outreach work to ensure it is abreast of current issues and emerging trends. The organisation has developed a reputation for designing and delivering innovative and responsive activities.

KAWACC is a small, needs-driven organisation which advocates with and for vulnerable and disadvantaged women, mainly, though not wholly of BME decent. Founded in 1984, we work in Keighley, West Yorkshire and operate from a women and girls centre in the densely populated district of Lawkholme Lane. Our users mainly come from the town’s urban core, many are of South Asian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds but this is now diversifying with the influx of Eastern and Central European and African migrants. We are run by women for women and have an active volunteer team. Our support is practical and strategic and reflects the cultural context of local women’s lives. On average we work with some 300 women a year.

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