Current Projects

Promoting Good Relations: Making Safer Places

Women’s Design Service has received funding from the Equality and Human Rights Commission for a project in the London Borough of Islington. We welcome the opportunity to work in partnership with other organisations in the borough and in particular with IRIS and FinFuture.

Please contact us if:-

• You are an organisation working with refugee women in Islington
• You are an organisation working around community safety
• You are a planner, architect, urban designer, regeneration professional who would like to work with the project
• You are a woman who would like to participate in this project

Contact Community Development Worker Denize LeDeatte by email dledeatte@wds.org.uk or by phone on 020 7490 5210.

Women’s Design Service are working with FinFuture in order to build on the valuable work which has taken place in relation to improving community safety in the Blackstock Road area. We want to broaden the partnership to involve local women and invite you to discuss the various ways in which you can be involved.

FinFuture was instrumental in being involved in the survey of the area in 2007 and the subsequent initiatives which followed; we now wish to follow up on that work with a Making Safer Places initiative. Making Safer Places (MSP) aims to improve community safety with women in urban environments, to involve women in achieving this as active participants in the change process and to enable a connection between women and policy-makers, so that policy is informed by community experience.

MSP is a structured process which supports participants and gives them the opportunity to work with other local women to highlight community safety concerns and any community safety ‘hotspots’. It also allows women to find out where to go for help with improving community safety and to present their ideas for improving community safety where appropriate.

If you live or work in or near the Blackstock Road area of Islington and would like to get involved in the project please contact Community Development Worker Denize LeDeatte on 020 7490 5210 or by emailing dledeatte@wds.org.uk

Download the Promoting Good Relations flyer here:

Arabic (PDF 620kb)

English (PDF 420kb)

Somali (PDF 790kb)

Spanish (PDF 460kb)

Turkish (PDF 750kb)

This project is supported with funding from the Equality and Human Rights Commission