International Women’s Day commemorates the past achievements and highlights the current social, economic and political issues of women on 8 March each year throughout the world. International Women’s Day provides an opportunity to develop networks and facilitate partnerships between women, organisations and the broader community.
2011 is the centenary of International Women’s Day. The theme is ‘Celebrating 100 Years’. In order to commemorate this significant event, the Department for Communities has provided a small grants program as a contribution to women celebrating the centenary of International Women’s Day in their local communities. The Department for Communities offered funding of up to $500 per application for the Centenary of International Women’s Day Grants 2011.
Centenary of International Women's Day Grant Recipients 2011
Gascoyne
Soroptimist International of Carnarvon Incorporated
International Women's Day 100th Anniversary event
Soroptimist International of Carnarvon Incorporated will conduct the 'International Women's Day 100th Anniversary’ event. The event will involve a talk by guest speaker Ms Margaret Lobo AM. Ms Lobo was the recipient of the Member of the Order of Australia, General Division, for services as an advocate and promoter of the status and health of women.
Western Australian Family Violence Prevention Legal Service Aboriginal Corporation (Carnarvon)
I am Proud, I am Strong - I am an Aboriginal Woman!
Western Australian Family Violence Prevention Legal Service Aboriginal Corporation (Carnarvon) will conduct the 'I am Proud, I am Strong – I am an Aboriginal Women!' workshop. The workshop will include a talk by a traditional Aboriginal guest speaker and will honour and recognise the contribution of Aboriginal women.
Goldfields
Escare Incorporated
Celebrating Inspirational Women in our Community
Escare Incorporated will conduct the 'Celebrating Inspirational Women in Our Community' luncheon. Escare has sourced four inspirational women from the community from various cultures (including Aboriginal, Fijian, South African and Caucasian) to share their stories of hardship, challenges and successes.
Great Southern
Albany Club
A Powerful Noise
Albany Club will conduct the 'A Powerful Noise' project. The project will feature the lives of three women from Mali, Bosnia and Vietnam incorporating a movie documentary from Care Australia. The movie will benefit the growing number of migrant families in the region.
Bremer Bay Community Resource and Visitor's Centre
Her Life, Her Story
Bremer Bay Community Resource and Visitor's Centre will conduct the 'Her Life, Her Story' event. The event will be held with women guest speakers who have created local, successful businesses. The project will promote and recognise the achievements of three women within the local community, with local people having the opportunity to meet, question and draw inspiration from the women speakers.
Rainbow Coast Neighbourhood Centre Incorporated
Essence of Women event.
Rainbow Coast Neighbourhood Centre Incorporated will conduct the 'Essence of Women' event. The event will celebrate the essence of women through multicultural activities, dance, food, children, art and alternative therapies such as massage, relaxation and yoga.
Womens Song
Ravensthorpe District Art Group, through the auspice of Ravensthorpe and Districts Rural Communities Program Inc will conduct the 'Woman Song' exhibition. The event will show case women and their worth by hosting an art exhibition, in conjunction with displays from a range of Ravensthorpe community, sports and business groups.
Wellstead Community Resource Centre
Women of Wellstead Celebration
Wellstead Community Resource Centre will conduct the 'Women of Wellstead Celebrate' event. The event will include a breakfast for community members to acknowledge the contributions of pioneering women and to celebrate the continued contributions to the local community by women.
West Arthur Community Resource Centre Incorporated
West Arthur Ladies High Tea
West Arthur Community Resource Centre Incorporated will conduct the 'West Arthur Ladies High Tea’. The event will provide the opportunity to hear from an inspirational local woman and to celebrate International Women’s Day.
Kimberley
Boystown
Balgo Celebrates 100 Years: International Women's Day.
Boystown will conduct the 'Balgo Celebrates 100 Years: International Women's Day' workshop. The event will bring women from the Balgo community together through a painting workshop to celebrate the contribution and achievements of women in the community.
SSJG Ministries Inc.
International Women's Day Morning Tea
SSJG Ministries Inc will conduct the 'Morning Tea' event. The event is to make the work of the 1907 Kimberley Pioneering Sisters of St John of God known to the community and preserve and make available material relating to those who have shared in the story of the Society of St John of God it will also gather story in the Kimberley.
Western Australian Family Violence Prevention Legal Service Aboriginal Corporation (Broome)
Celebration of Indigenous Women of the West Kimberley Coming Together in Strength and Harmony
Western Australian Family Violence Prevention Legal Service Aboriginal Corporation (Broome) will conduct the 'Celebration of Indigenous Women of the West Kimberley Coming Together in Strength and Harmony' workshop. The project aims to bring women together and make the community acknowledge their presence in their communities by celebrating and rejoicing Indigenous women cultural achievements and survival.
Yawoorroong Miriuwung Gajerrong Yirrgeb Noong Dawang Aboriginal Corporation
Celebrating Aboriginal Women
Yawoorroong Miriuwung Gajerrong Yirrgeb Noong Dawang Aboriginal Corporation will conduct the 'Celebrating Aboriginal Women' event. The event is an early evening gathering for the Kununurra community to hear the personal stories of senior women from the Miriuwung Gajerrong people, including community elders and artists, and their ideas for the future role of women in the Aboriginal and wider community.
Midwest
NEFF Women's Network Group
Centenary of International Women's Day,
North East Farming Futures Group (Inc) will conduct the 'Centenary of International Women's Day NEFF Women's Network Group Celebratory’ event. The event will focus on women, their social networks and their communities, with a view to celebrating and fostering support for women in rural areas.
Shire of Mount Magnet
Supper with Displays
The Shire of Mount Magnet will conduct the ‘Centenary of International Women’s Day Supper with Displays' event. Various women’s groups from Mount Magnet will be invited to display and showcase their activities during the supper.
Women's Health Resource Centre (Inc)
International Women's Day Centenary Breakfast
Women's Health Resource Centre (Inc) will conduct the 'International Women's Day Centenary Breakfast' event. The breakfast will focus on the 100 year theme and have women guest speakers talking on their achievements.
Yamatji Family Violence Prevention Legal Service
International Women's Day Morning Tea
Yamatji Family Violence Prevention Legal Service, through the Western Australia Family Violence Prevention Legal Service Aboriginal Corporation, will conduct the 'Morning Tea' event. The event will bring together women from all different nationalities and cultures to network and share information about their culture.
Peel
Serpentine Jarrahdale Shire
Centenary of International Women's Day 2011 - Morning Tea
Serpentine Jarrahdale Shire will conduct the 'Centenary of International Women's Day 2011 – Morning Tea' event. The event will celebrate, and recognise, the value of women in the shire over the past 100 years by hosting a morning tea which will be open to all members of the community.
Shire of Capel
International Women's Day
The Shire of Capel will conduct the 'Highway to International Women's Day' festival. The festival will involve stage entertainment with guest speakers, drumming performance, poetry and singing. There will also be stalls, workshops and educational information from local agencies who provide services to women.
Perth Metro
Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women Western Australian Division Incorporated
100 Working women Breakfast
Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women (Western Australian) Division Incorporated will conduct the '100 Working Women' event. The event will acknowledge and applaud the contribution of 100 working women and highlight the fact that barriers still remain in gender equity and women's representation in decision-making roles in our community.
Belmont Business Enterprise Centre Inc
Belmont International Women's Day Celebration lunch
Belmont Business Enterprise Centre Inc will conduct the 'Belmont International Women's Day Celebration Lunch' event. The lunch will focus on celebrating women from all cultures including Indigenous women. The event will involve 100 guests and will include a display and parade from Somalia, Philippines and Aboriginal creative designers.
City of Armadale
Women's Champion Forum
The City of Armadale will conduct the 'Women's Champion Forum’ project. The project will provide opportunities for women from diverse backgrounds to share their issues through stories, dialogue and discussion about possible salutations. The forum will include guest speakers from different cultural background including Aboriginal, non–Aboriginal and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse groups.
Council on the Ageing (WA) Inc.
International Women's Day Morning Tea
Council on the Ageing (WA) Inc will conduct the 'Morning Tea' function. The function will target female seniors and will feature a presentation by one or more prominent older women on the contribution older women have made, and can make, to the community.
Cystic Fibrosis Association fo Western Australia
International Women's Day Morning Tea
Cystic Fibrosis Association of Western Australia will conduct the 'Morning Tea' event. The event will honour the women founders of Cystic Fibrosis Association of WA and celebrate the current contributions of women to the organisation.
Ethnic Communities Council of WA Inc.
Celebrating Diversity-International Women's Day 2011
Ethnic Communities Council of WA Inc will conduct the 'Celebrating Diversity-International Women's Day 2011' event. The event will give public recognition to the efforts made by Western Australian women from ethnic and Indigenous backgrounds in creating a dynamic and sustainable multicultural society for all Western Australian to share.
Gosnells Women's Health Service
PhotoVoice:celebrating everyday Women
Gosnells Women's Health Service will conduct the 'PhotoVoice: Celebrating Everyday Women' project. The project will celebrate the life achievements of women in the local community through a PhotoVoice competition. Women will be nominated and photographed in a way that illustrates their achievements.
Ishar Multicultural Women's Health Centre
Multicultural Morning Tea
Ishar Multicultural Women's Health Centre will conduct the 'Multicultural Morning Tea' event. The event will celebrate women and their strengths. Ten tables of ten women from ten nationalities/regions will be invited to the event. Each table will be served the national food of that country. A guest speaker will also talk and women will be invited to share their stories and experiences.
Kaarta-Moorda Aboriginal Corporation
Celebrating International Women's Day
Kaarta-Moorda Aboriginal Corporation will conduct the 'Celebrating International Women's Day' event. The project will recognise ten quiet achievers in the local community. The initiative will be advertised on community radio 100.9FM and will be asking listeners to nominate Moorditj Yorga (good woman) whom they think deserves ‘a day off’. The event will include a special lunch to recognise these women and their commitment to family and/or the community.
Medina Residents Group Inc
Photographic Exhibition and Morning Tea
Medina Residents Group Inc will conduct the 'Photographic Exhibition and Morning Tea' event. The event will honour and celebrate the contributions women have made to Medina and the greater Kwinana region.
Older Women's Network (W.A) Inc
A Hundred Years of Wonderful Women
Older Women's Network (W.A) will conduct the ' A Hundred Years of Wonderful Women’ event. The event will feature speakers on the fight for women's rights and progress up to present times. A theatre group will also perform original songs about women's issues. The event will be open to all women in the community and will close with a fashion show.
Solid Women Aboriginal Corporation
Cherishing Our Solid Women Aboriginal Grandmothers of Today and Past
Solid Women Aboriginal Corporation will conduct the 'Cherishing Our Solid Women Aboriginal Grandmothers of Today and Past' event. The event will provide a healthy, diabetes friendly lunch for Aboriginal grandmothers from the South Lake community to celebrate International Women's Day.
South Coastal Women's Health Service Association Inc (SCHWAS)
Celebrate the Centenary of Iinternational Women's Day
South Coastal Women's Health Service Association Inc will conduct the 'Celebrate the Centenary of International Women’s Day event. The project will involve an evening event to highlight women’s achievements and creativity in the Rockingham/Kwinana area.
The Centre for Cerebral Palsy
International Women's Day Afternoon Tea
The Centre for Cerebral Palsy will conduct the 'International Women's Day Afternoon Tea' event. The afternoon tea will celebrate the outstanding achievements of women with cerebral palsy in Western Australia and will recognise the contributions of Lady Brand to the Centre in its 60th year.
The Girls' Brigade WA
Growing Girls into Leaders
The Girls' Brigade of WA will conduct the 'Growing Girls into Leaders - A Timeline’ event. The event will showcase the role that the Girl’s Brigade WA has had in delivering leadership programs and opportunities to women throughout the ages in Western Australia.
Women's Healthworks, Health Education and Resource Centre Inc.
Celebrating Diversity
Women's Healthworks, Health Education and Resource Centre Incorporated will conduct the 'Celebrating Diversity' event. The event will celebrate women's achievements and diversity. Women's Healthworks community choir will open the event with a selection of songs such as 'I am Woman'. Information on the history of the women's movement to more contemporary issues will also be available.
Young UNIFEM Australia Perth Committee
Women: A Portrait of Western Australia
Young UNIFEM Australia Perth Committee will conduct the 'Women: A Portrait of Western Australia' project. One of the goals of this project is to build on the existing YUA-Perth networks to ensure that they are representing as broad as constituency as possible, and secure its role as a peak young women's body in Western Australia. The launch will be provide an opportunity to bring many diverse groups together and celebrate Western Australian women
Zonta Club of Perth Northern Suburbs Incorporated
Celebrating 100 Years of International Women's Day by saving 100 Lives
Zonta Club of Perth Northern Suburbs Incorporated will conduct the 'Celebrating 100 Years of International Women's Day’ event. Zonta, along with community groups from all cultural backgrounds, will hold an activity to assemble 2 000 birthing kits. The kits will then be distributed to women in third world countries.
Pilbara
Karingal Neighbourhood Centre Inc.
Women In the Pilbara
Karingal Neighbourhood Centre Inc will conduct the 'Women In the Pilbara' event. The event will bring women in the community together through art and craft displays and workshops such as bead making and scrap booking.
South West
Blackwood Basin Group Incorporated
Women in Landcare:Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Blackwood Basin Group Incorporated will conduct the 'Women in Landcare: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future' forum. The forum will foster a sense of pride by honouring past landcare achievements by women, and provide inspiration and future directions during a difficult economic climate.
Collie Family Centre Incorporated
Looking Forward, Looking Back luncheon
Collie Family Centre Incorporated will conduct the 'Looking Forward, Looking Back' luncheon. The event will honour women who serve as inspirational role models for young people today.
Community Home Care Incorporated
International Women's Day Morning Tea
Community Home Care Incorporated will conduct the 'International Women's Day Morning Tea' event. The event will be staged in two parts. The first part will identify three women who will have short videos made of them telling a story related to their experience of living in the local community. The second part will be an event on International Women's Day to celebrate the lives of local women and showcase the videos.
Denmark Dragon Boat Club Incorporated
Women of Denmark Morning Tea
Denmark Dragon Boat Club will conduct the 'Women of Denmark Morning Tea’ event. The event will recognise Denmark's early settler women whose contributions are often unrecognised. Their stories will be honoured during a twilight paddle taking current women leaders along the Denmark River. The event will culminate in a celebratory meal.
Harvey Community Resource Centre
Harvey International Woman's Day
Harvey Community Resource Centre will conduct the 'Harvey International Women's Day' event. The event will commence with a high tea and a discussion about women in the community over the last 100 years including their achievements and hardships.
Margaret River Arts Council Inc.
Honouring Augusta/Margaret River Women
Margaret River Arts Council Inc will conduct the 'Honouring Augusta/Margaret River Women' event. The event will provide 10 blank canvasses to ten local associations to mount an artistic display telling the stories of prominent local women of the district over the past 100 years.
Shire of Nannup
Nanup Celebration of Women
The Shire of Nannup will conduct the 'Nannup Celebration of Women' event. The event will involve a diverse range of guest speakers from a range of backgrounds and experiences including business, volunteer, Indigenous, CaLD, mental health advocate and a policewoman.
South West Women's Health and Information Centre
Centenary of International Women's Day
South West Women's Health and Information Centre will conduct the 'Centenary of International Women's Day event. The event will be held in Bunbury at the Bricknell Shell. There will be stage entertainment in the form of guest speakers and also stalls held by women's community organisations and service agencies. Five hundred women of all ages and backgrounds will sing a song called 'Love and Justice'.
Wheatbelt
Shire of Kondinin
Inspirational Ladies Day
The Shire of Kondinin will conduct the 'Inspirational Ladies Day' event. The event aims will be held locally and will encourage women to form friendships with other women in their community. The event will include a guest speaker.
Shire of Morawa
Fashion Parade and Afternoon Tea
The Shire of Morawa will conduct the 'Celebrating the Achievements of Rural Women-Fashion Parade and Afternoon Tea' event. The event will include a guest speaker and will acknowledge the achievements of rural women in local government, education, health, business, farming, volunteering and tourism.
The Shire of Northam
Unfolding of the Quilts Library Exhibition
The Shire of Northam will conduct the 'Unfolding of the Quilts Library Exhibition' project. The project will celebrate the past, present and future achievements of women and will be launched with a morning tea for approximately 40 people on International Women's Day 2011. The exhibition will be supported with individual signage for each quilt on display, a brochure detailing a history of quilting in the area and posters to be displayed in local businesses.
Shire of Quairading
International Women's Day 'Shout Out'
The Shire of Quairading will conduct the 'International Women's Day Shout Out' event. The Shire will organise a morning tea to be delivered to women at their workplaces. They will also supply and deliver food for those women in the community who choose to host a morning tea in their homes.
Shire on Wongan-Ballidu
International Women's Day Morning Tea
The Shire of Wongan-Ballidu will conduct the 'Morning Tea to Celebrate the Contribution of Women' event. The aim is to celebrate the contribution women have made to the Wheatbelt region. It will include an inspirational talk by Ms Ros Worthington about her achievements as the founder of the Breast Cancer Foundation and other exploits.