Foreword

So... On Monday afternoon Aurelie, Miles and I (Katherine!) left the city to visit the greatness that is the North Shore. Having no idea where we were going I was pretty impressed with Aurelie's map reading skills and we managed to get lost just once and arrive at the North Shore Women's Centre only 15 minutes late. We were greeted by Kaira the manager of the Centre and immediately felt right at home- even Miles, they aren't that exclusive haha.
Anyway...
The North Shore Women's Centre was officially established in 1987 (21 this year!!) as the Glenfield Women's Health Cooperative but in 1991 became a charitable trust working with women from all over the North Shore, hence the name change. Currently the centre has 5 staff and 3 contractors and is governed by a Board of Trustees who don't work there.
The North Shore Women's Centre exists to empower and enable woman to live to their full potential. They do this by providing a range of services for women of all ages including information, referral, support, counselling and legal advice as well as fun things like massage clinics and book clubs.
Even though the centre is for women of all ages the North Shore Women's Centre are finding it difficult to appeal to younger people. Kaira says that "While I agree that since the start of the feminist movement more choices are available for women, there are still inequalities between the genders" therefore young people are taking the rights fought for decades ago for granted and not challenging their current role in society and the inequalities between genders. It is our mission to help them to get noticed by people our age and younger.
We left the meeting full of ideas and super excited about the next two weeks!
It all starts tomorrow....