A report by New Philanthropy Capital warns that violence against women is costing British society £40bn a year, but charities which help victims are grossly underfunded. NPC's report concluded that the expense to public services, lost economic output and knock-on effects of violence against women in all its forms costs the country more than the annual defence budget. (Express, 23 Apr 2008, p33; Independent, 23 Apr 2008, p16) 

For more information about how to get involved with our ongoing campaigns, please see our Join Us page.

 

    

The London Feminist Network (LFN) is a women-only networking and campaigning organisation, formed in 2004 to unite London-based feminist groups and individuals in action! We currently have more than 900 members.

 

We work closely with other groups in London , supporting various feminist campaigns in order that we can broaden our movement and work together for women's rights and against patriarchy in all its forms.

 

We aim to meet monthly to share news, listen to guest speakers, plan campaigns and demonstrations, network and support each other. We are a new and vibrant group, there is plenty of opportunity to get involved in direct campaigning and organising work - join us and make a difference! We keep in touch via a Yahoo group email. If you would like to join our email group and be part of the London Feminist Network, see our Join Us page.Membership of the LFN is free. We actively welcome women from all backgrounds and seek to fully reflect the diversity of our city.

 

We have organised pickets against porn cinemas and organise an annual conference called Feminism in London, we have taken our huge purple and white banner on demonstrations against the war on Iraq, against racism and for peace.

 

The London Feminist Network organises the annual Reclaim The Night march, which is held in central London every November to mark the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. In 2009 about 2000 women participated.

 

The London Feminist Network is an active member of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, headed by Amnesty International UK and the Women's National Commission. We are also a member of the Children are Unbeatable Alliance and the Single Parent Action Network (SPAN). We have signed the Charter of rights of women asylum seekers.

 

We work with, and fully support, Object's tireless "Stripping the Illustion" campaign to get lap dancing clubs to be licensed in the same way as sex shops and sex cinemas, to reflect their status as part of the commercial sex industry. The photo below shows Object campaigners (many of whom are LFN members) at 10 Downing street, where they handed in petitions with 8,500 signatures in support of their campaign. They were accompanied by a woman formerly in lap dancing and MPs Lynda Waltho, Fiona Mactaggart, Roberta Blackman-Woods and Celia Barlow.

 

 

MILLION WOMEN RISE 
FUNDRAISING PARTY

Saturday 13 February 2010

 

Join us at

MILLION WOMEN RISE 
Saturday 6 March

Meet  at 12 noon
Park Lane, Central London, W1N 9HJ
(opposite Hyde Park, Speakers' Corner end)
Nearest tube: Marble Arch

The march ends in Trafalgar Square with a rally
Look out for our big purple banner!

 

Reclaim The Night

 

 

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DEMAND CHANGE!

Prostitution is exploitation:

Stop the demand!

Sign the petition

 

Feminism in London 2010

All day Saturday, 23 October

 

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