Christmas cards: which charities acknowledge women exist?

Actually if anyone does want to support a hugely worthwhile charity, I notice you can also get cards from here:

petalscharity.org/

It’s a small independent charity offering counselling to women and families who’ve suffered stillbirths and neonatal bereavement. In many NHS trusts there are (unbelievably!) no funded services providing this!

I don’t know anything about their “diversity” policies but they do really great hands-on proper work for parents (majority but not exclusively women, as dads and couples can access counselling as well, but they are very woman run and woman focused). Also extremely professional and down to earth.

I can support women’s charities in other ways, and support artists and print collectives via cards instead.

Another shout-out for Plan - I'm a long-term supporter and they're very clear about the sex-based disadvantages that girls face. I haven't even checked if they're Stonewall supporters, but if they are it hasn't affected how they talk about the excellent work they do!

Uh, even if charities have trans-inclusive wording, if they work with women and girls it means just that. They will be changing the wording to protect their reputations. I think you're being petty.

Why is a charity wasting money from donations on membership of one of Stonewall's expensive schemes?

Very good question. Like the ones whose top staff are on huge salaries. That’s why I prefer the small local charities.

Stealhsquirrelnutkin, I love those cards at www.adulthumanfemale.store/product-page/christmas-cards !

A Christmassy feminist dinosaur hoarding her rights —I must send one to David Lammy.

ARC - Antenatal Results and Choices

www.arc-uk.org/support-us/arc-christmas-cards

They use 'parents' on the above page because obviously both parents are bereaved but they do use 'women' when talking about pregnancy elsewhere on the site...

"All pregnant women in the UK are offered antenatal screening tests. Most women will be reassured by the results but some (approximately 5%) will be given worrying news and face difficult decisions about diagnostic testing. It is your choice to have any test. Learn more about antenatal screening and diagnosis."

They're also not a fashionable charity because obviously many women go on to have a termination after a diagnosis of a serious illness or disability on their unborn children so it is hard to talk about because the subject is potentially distressing , hard to get businesses to lend support, and hard to raise money for so they are a very good cause.

Do Plan sell Christmas cards at all?

Plan is fab! They have a 'because I am a girl' campaign, do tons around period poverty and FGM, including things like working with the local population to really uderstand customs and the significance of FGM to be able to replace it with something that can work in the particular culture and doesn't involve any harm.
Cat's protection, if you like cats

Oh no I take it back about womankind. They've published a link to glaad ally tips, and they are nasty loons.

It's good to hear about cancer research uk coming back from the sex-neutral brink. I was a bit annoyed to hear womankind might have gone the other way. But I don't know if the fact their social media tweeted something pro trans in one of the many trans weeks really means anything. I had a look on twitter and their trabs awareness week tweet was OK to me - it was about respecting pronouns, and was from a Ugandan organisation that supports lesbians and trans men. That sounds like a more sensible female-centred approach. Idk I might be clutching at traws!

www.womensaid.org.uk/information-support/what-is-domestic-abuse/domestic-abuse-is-a-gendered-crime/

Looks like Women's Aid know what a woman is (or at least, I am hopeful).

www.wateraid.org/uk/the-crisis/tackling-inequality/girls-and-women

Starts strong then 'those who menstruate', 'people with periods'.

They do actually care about actual women and girls though

Maybe water aid?

Parkinson's UK. No bollocks.
My husband has Parkinson's and it's total rubbish. Diagnosed a few years ago at 48. Now in advanced P, beginning dementia.
They are making real progress, and their support is excellent.

Brain Tumour Research www.braintumourresearch.org/fundraise/christmas-cards#anchor1

I would like to get some from MND Association as my DF passed away from MND earlier this year. I had high hopes looking at their diversity and inclusion page as it talked about sex and sexuality and no mention of gender....scrolled down a bit further and said their policy is the process of being updated...scrolled down a bit further and said they have recently become a Stonewall diversity champion. Hmmm I may have to dig a little deeper. For the most part my gut feeling though is I think they're mainly just concerned with helping people with MND without getting sidetracked by all this guff.

I always get them from a charity supporting older people (they run the retirement village where the Old People's Home for Four Year Olds was filmed, amongst others) because they are doing great things with dementia research. It's called the ExtraCare Charitable Trust.

Obviously anything affecting fertility also affects hormonal cycles and pms symptoms etc.

They've been running a campaign to improve care for pregnant women. Also work with U.K. iodine group which have done research into iodine status among women and teen girls, as it affects thyroid levels and also impacts fertility and pregnancy outcomes.

Iodine deficiency and a struggling thyroid was the cause of cretinism. This was virtually eradicated with iodine use in the milk industry. However vegan diets here risk deficiencies unless supplementing as the U.K. doesn't add iodine to salt etc. (Too much from kelp is also bad.)

British Thyroid Foundation

I support Practical action, a lot of their work recognises and focuses on women and girls around the world. They have a give a gift section on the website along with usual donation methods.