Some of the delegates at the NAW’s June 2025 seminar. A great weekend!
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Our fabulous seminar is back in Birmingham! Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 June 2025.
The NASUWT’s education centre is a very comfortable place! Hillscourt, Rose Hill, Rednal, Birmingham B45 8RS. There is free wifi throughout.
- The nearest major train station is Birmingham New Street – about £20 in a taxi.
- The nearest train station is Longbridge (about 4 an hour from Birmingham New Street and a 20 minute journey) and is about £10 in a taxi.
- There is plenty of free parking on site if you are arriving by car.
If you are coming for Saturday lunch it will be served at 1pm. The seminar starts at 2pm.
The weekend’s programme and a flyer are here – feel free to share them with your sisters!
Note that we finish at 1pm on the Sunday (there is no lunch but you will have had a good breakfast!). It is likely that you will be able to arrange to share taxis back to Birmingham New Street or Longbridge.
Please don’t hesitate to contact megan@gn.apc.org with any queries.
29 October 2024 On the NAW stall at Unite’s equalities conference. Left to right: Anita Wright, Carolyn Simpson, Sharon Graham, Megan Dobney, Alison Spencer-Scragg, Jane Stewart
18 September 2024 We are very sorry to hear of the death on 7 September of long-time NAW member Vi Gill. Violet Gill was a well known trade union activist, and former engineering union convenor at Firth Brown Tools in Sheffield. Obituary is in the December 2024 edition of Sisters.
17 September 2024 – the NAW is a sponsor of the Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture – you can read the lecturers’ contributions here https://sylviapankhurst.gn.apc.org/category/memorial-lectures/
2 March 2024 – Fran Heathcote, newly elected general secretary of PCS trade union, will be a guest speaker at our AGM on Saturday 15 June
30 January 2024 – the fabulous delegates at our spring seminar in Rednal
27 January 2024
Women striking back NAW Executive Committee member Vicky Knight writes in the Morning Star about our weekend seminar https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/women-striking-back
13 December 2023
Details and booking information for the NAW’s 2024 Spring Seminar, Saturday 27 to Sunday 28 January at the NASUWT’s education centre in Rednal near Birmingham. flyer 2024
See the Events page for more details.
9 October 2023
Statement of the Movement of the Democratic Women of Israel
August 2023 The NAW at the South Yorkshire Festival at the Workers’ Stately Home (Wortley Hall)
March 2023
January 2023
Text of the NAW motion carried at the People’s Assembly conference 14 January 2023
January 2023
Statement from the Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women Political Prisoners under the threat of execution
December 2022
So sorry to inform you that NAW vice president Alice Mahon died on 25 December 2022.
Alice was born in Bradford in September 1937, trained as an auxiliary nurse, was an activist in NUPE (now part of Unison), a lecturer in trade union studies and then elected as MP for Halifax – she served from 1987 to 2005.
A full obituary will be published in due course. The picture below shows Alice with former NAW president Beryl Huffinley, and Winnie Mandela.
November 2022
Speech to the 2022 World Peace Council by Annie Raja, vice president of the WIDF
October 2022
Statement signed by the NAW and progressive women’s organisations on the situation in Iran
September 2022
Statement from our sister organisaton, the Democratic Organisation of Iranian Women, condemning the killig of Mahsa (Gina) Amini
August 2022
See the Documents page (and down to WIDF documents) for the WIDF statement on Hiroshima. 77 years after Hiroshima, women demand peace, democracy and sovereignty for peoples
July 2022
See the Documents page (and down to WIDF documents) for Skevi Koukouma’s reflections on the recent WIDF Congress and the disproportionate impact of war and imperialism on women. Skevi is secretary general of Cyprus’s women’s movement POGO, and vice president of the WIDF.
May 2022
NAW AGM postponed
The 2022 AGM of the National Assembly of Women was due to be held on 18 June in Birmingham. Frustratingly, we have discovered that major engineering rail works are starting on 18 June affecting key routes to and from Birmingham which means that many sisters would struggle to attend.
After careful consideration the NAW Executive Committee has reluctantly accepted that rather than move the date further into the summer period we should combine the AGM with our planned 70th NAW Anniversary event at the Marx Memorial Library in London on Saturday 5 November.
The AGM will start at 11.00am followed by our Anniversary celebration.
Further details will follow, including revised timescales for EC elections.
Sincere apologies to sisters who had hoped to attend – this decision has not been taken lightly but we are faced with circumstances beyond our control.
February 2022
This year is the NAW’s 70th – we will be holding our annual seminar on Saturday 5 November at the Marx Memorial Library in London (this is where our history is archived).