{"id":29384,"date":"2015-11-24T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T13:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=29384"},"modified":"2016-10-17T16:12:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T16:12:33","slug":"women-making-the-world-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/no-logo\/women-making-the-world-better","title":{"rendered":"Women making the world better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanistasuk.wordpress.com\/urbanistas-cardiff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Urbanistas Cardiff<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenmakingadifference.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women Making a Difference<\/a>\u00a0will team up to present an evening of quick-fire\u00a0talks on 8 December.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place at the Cardiff Story Museum, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/social-action-lightning-talks-tickets-19431835142?aff=ebrowse\" target=\"_blank\">Social Action Lightning Talks<\/a> event will highlight female-led projects making a difference to local communities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29390\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 468px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wmd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wmd-468x312.jpg\" alt=\"women\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women Making a Difference offers training courses free of charge and open to all women in Wales.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Presenters will get just 20 images and 400 seconds to showcase their visual story.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8216;lightning talk&#8217; format is meant to be a challenging but fun way to improve public speaking skills within a safe space says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenmakingadifference.org.uk\/news-events\/1557-new-director-to-lead-welsh-charity-empowering-women-into-public-life\" target=\"_blank\">Joni Alexander<\/a>, director of Women Making a Difference.\u00a0\u201cThere&#8217;s clearly demand from women to improve their public speaking,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29398\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 474px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wmd2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wmd2-474x312.jpg\" alt=\"women\" width=\"474\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Find out about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenmakingadifference.org.uk\/upcoming-courses\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming free courses<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another key reason for the event is its partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/active-citizens\" target=\"_blank\">British Council&#8217;s Active Citizens<\/a> programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ll have five international visitors at the event eager to learn about Welsh community based projects and campaigns,&#8221;\u00a0explains Joni. &#8220;This is a great way of showcasing the work and hopefully inspires a few people too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Equality Human Rights Commission report shows that more women held positions of power and influence in 2004 compared to 2014\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-Infographic480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-29391 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-Infographic480.jpg\" alt=\"women\" width=\"480\" height=\"538\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the full report visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalityhumanrights.com\/publication\/who-runs-wales-2014\" target=\"_blank\">Equality Human Rights<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff women\u2019s leadership groups host a social action talk <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[10704,10706,10700,10707,3648,10702,10703,10698,10705,10699,10708,4378,10701],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - 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