FAN has made a successful application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for our new oral history project.
The project will make accessible for the first time the oral history testimonies of the women who set up the National Women’s Aid Federation (now Women’s Aid). These will bring to life the experiences of the women activists at the forefront of the early women’s domestic violence movement, which was a catalyst in making lasting social changes to the position of women in the UK.
Growing out of the Women’s Liberation movement of 1974, the organisation moved in twenty years from being one which met with aggression from the police and the threat of arrest for its refuge workers, to one which was highly regarded for its knowledge and research, and which was sought out by MPs and government departments for its advice.
FAN would like to thank Heritage Lottery Fund for making this work of recording the oral histories possible.