Apna Haq supports Black and minoritised women and girls living in Rotherham, South Yorkshire who are experiencing violence. As a small charity, the team have had to develop a big voice to ensure the issues of Black and minoritised women and girls are reflected in local and national policy.
What they’ve done with the funding from Rosa
Stand With Us funding was awarded to improve capacity within the team and help the charity to carry out governance training for Board members and the leadership team.
Zlakha Ahmed, CEO of Apna Haq explains: “One of the things we wanted to do was increase capacity, and so taking on a full-time Finance and Operations post has really helped to free up my time and supported with bids for funding.
Our policy has been that we always involve at least 50% service users, community women, within our board. We have a range of professionals and community women – so having the funding to pay for an outside consultant to deliver training to the Board is invaluable.
I’ve been doing this for half of my life and funding shortages really weigh down on me as a leader. When I’m thinking about the future, I really want to leave the organisation in a strong position.
With Rosa’s funding, whatever the outcome for funding in the future, we feel in a much stronger position as an organisation.”
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