Womens Consortium Charity

Who we are

The Women’s Consortium started in 2007 after noticing a gap in the services offered to women and the challenges women being faced.

Several centres offered only a particular set of support. Women felt they were being moved from place to place just to obtain help. Some faced additional challenges such as language barriers, social exclusion, health problems thus making it harder to seek help.

The founder of the organisation, Khaleda Khan wanted to make a difference and support those disadvantaged or at times neglected by society. She knew she had the skills to support people and ability to help make a difference. She discussed this with other women and then decided to fill that gap by setting up the Women’s Consortium.

They started small by helping a handful of marginalised people with advice and personal development. Since Khaleda was already a practitioner in parts of therapy and experienced with coaching and mental health, she was able to offer those services directly.

Slowly they started networking with similar organisations to expand their services and reach further out into the community. After 8 years, having a successful team delivering invaluable work in London, Women’s Consortium decided to branch out the services into the West Midlands – Birmingham early 2015.

Support demands in Birmingham grew rapidly. By listening to what the community needed and to meet the high needs, Women’s Consortium extended their therapy to additional methods such as Hypnotherapy, Hypnobirthing and more. They also added extra services such as youth support and legal advice.

Women’s Consortium continue to listen to the community and understand their needs. Behind the scenes they are speaking with local authorities, agencies and services and ensuring the community voices are heard.

They will continue to empower the community and add additional services needed by people. They are working towards eventually becoming nationwide thus helping a great number of people.

Our culture and values

Our mission is to promote wellbeing of everyone and provide accessible opportunities for all people to enter society without judgment and bias.

The vision is to create opportunities in the community for people to access a range of services to create a restored lifestyle.

Recognizing a lack of facilities fully focused on addressing the needs of women, Women’s Consortium began by providing services for women only and then expanded to provide services for all people. As many women feel safer and more comfortable in women exclusive environments, WC continues to some offer services and program for women only.

We offer an array of services from therapy, both clinical and alternative, to fitness classes, and a variety of workshops. Our fundamental aim is to enable people to reach their goals and empower people to realise their self-worth.

The workshops have been so successful that local business and later larger organisations have requested that similar training be offered for their staff fulfilment. This created the opportunity to expand our services by providing bespoke training to organisations upon request.

Women’s Consortium seeks to support everyone to go from where they are to where they want to be in life. As the motto says, we want to strengthen valuable lives.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

The Charity is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in employment. The terms equality, inclusion and diversity are at the heart of this policy.

Equality means ensuring everyone has the same opportunities to fulfil their potential free from discrimination.

Inclusion means ensuring everyone feels comfortable to be themselves at work and feels the worth of their contribution.

Diversity means the celebration of individual differences amongst the workforce.

We will actively support diversity and inclusion and ensure that all our employees are valued and treated with dignity and respect. We want to encourage everyone in our business to reach their potential. We value people as individuals with diverse opinions, cultures, lifestyles, and circumstances.

All job applicants, employees, and workers, including agency workers, are covered by this policy and it applies to all areas of employment including recruitment, selection, training, career development, and promotion. These areas are monitored, and policies and practices are amended if necessary to ensure that no unfair or unlawful discrimination, intentional, unintentional, direct, or indirect, overt, or latent exists.

Equality of opportunity, valuing diversity and compliance with the law is to the benefit of all individuals in our Charity as it seeks to develop the skills and abilities of its people. While specific responsibility for eliminating discrimination and providing equality of opportunity lies with managers and supervisors, individuals at all levels have a responsibility to treat others with dignity and respect. The personal commitment of every employee to this policy and application of its principles are essential to eliminate discrimination and provide equality throughout the Charity.

Management will ensure that recruitment, selection, training, development, and promotion procedures result in no job applicant, employee, or worker receiving less favourable treatment because of a protected characteristic within the Equality Act 2010 which are race, including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste; religion or belief; disability; sex; sexual orientation; pregnancy or maternity; gender reassignment; marriage or civil partnership; and age.

In accordance with our overarching equal treatment ethos, we will also ensure that no one is treated less favourably on account of their trade union membership or non-membership, or on the basis of being a part-time worker or fixed-term employee.

The Charity’s objective is to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted, and otherwise treated solely on the basis of their relevant aptitudes, skills, and abilities. We will ensure that the policy is circulated to any agencies responsible for our
recruitment and a copy of the policy will be made available for all employees and made known to all applicants for employment.

The policy will be communicated to all private contractors reminding them of their responsibilities towards the equality of opportunity.

The policy will be implemented in accordance with the appropriate statutory requirements and full account will be taken of all available guidance and in particular any relevant Codes of Practice. Management has the primary responsibility for successfully meeting these objectives by:
 not discriminating in the course of engagement against employees, workers or job applicants;
 not inducing or attempting to induce others to practice unlawful discrimination;
 bringing to the attention of our workforce that they may be subject to action under the disciplinary procedure, or other appropriate action, for unlawful discrimination of any kind.

You can contribute by:
 not discriminating against fellow employees, workers, customers, clients, suppliers, or members of the public with whom you come into contact during the course of your duties;
 not inducing or attempting to induce others to practice unlawful discrimination;
 reporting any discriminatory action to your Manager.

The successful achievement of these objectives necessitates a contribution from everyone, and you have an obligation to report any act of discrimination known to you. If you consider that you are a victim of unlawful discrimination you may raise the issue through the grievance procedure.