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When women's services are corporatised is that the beginning of the end?

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stumbledin · 31/01/2019 00:59

I realise that Women's Aid like a lot of long standing women's support services has moved towards a more corporate style (probably having to compete with Refuge's business model - but would never have imagined that WA new CEO spoke at a UKIP conference!!!!!
twitter.com/bindelj/status/1090381745348902912

But given recent threads about there being no problem with feminist working with right wing christain fundamentalists maybe I am just being a bit too old school.

And of course all women's aid refuges now have this issue, which of course means they aren't old school at all. Sad www.change.org/p/katie-ghose-keep-out-of-women-s-refuges

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AnyOldPrion · 31/01/2019 12:38

As soon as you rely on funding from any source who doesn’t have feminism at heart, you are putting your service at risk as you are no longer only responsible for the needs of the women in your care, but have added in the requirement to keep your funders happy.

As we’ve seen, even government funding has strings attached.

2rebecca · 31/01/2019 12:37

I think taking government money comes with a lot of disadvantages and does corporatise your organisation.
That applies to women's organisations and others like sporting ones.
I hate the restrictions Sports Scotland put on sporting organisations before they will give them money (unrelated to trans stuff) which take a lot of the fun out of sports organisations and makes volunteers spend more time on paperwork, admin and bean counting rather than doing their sport.

Ereshkigal · 31/01/2019 12:28

In light of the previous discussions about liasing with people on the right, I’d say the problem isn’t who Ghose has been meeting with, but the abandonment of feminist principles and replacing them with corporate ones.

YY.

Imnobody4 · 31/01/2019 12:27

but the abandonment of feminist principles and replacing them with corporate ones. exactly.

Fallingirl · 31/01/2019 04:38

In light of the previous discussions about liasing with people on the right, I’d say the problem isn’t who Ghose has been meeting with, but the abandonment of feminist principles and replacing them with corporate ones.

Coyoacan · 31/01/2019 04:10

There is a fundament difference between accepting a venue for a meeting when no other venues are available or talking to conservatives and Christians whose children have fallen foul of the transcult and hiring a right-wing CEO for such an important charity.

lisamuggeridge · 31/01/2019 01:05

Yes.

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