16 Days of Action Against Gender Based Violence

Webinar:

Input to Elected Members (White Ribbon) 

This webinar will include an overview of the D&G White Ribbon Campaign and its primary prevention strategy to tackle gender-based violence and abuse.

Online

For more info, contact:

publicprotectiontraining@dumgal.gov.uk 

Webinar:

Trafficking – with Audrey Hand (TARA) 

This webinar will cover an overview of Trafficking and its impact on survivors as well as help available to them.

Click HERE to book your place.

March:

Reclaim the Night March Dumfries Plainstains and Stranraer Millenium Centre 

Providing an opportunity for women and allies to walk around Dumfries and Stranraer, with the message that women should be free to walk after dark without fear or concern for their safety. Recognising that women from all walks of life experience violence against women (including rape, sexual harassment and catcalling) and this should never be acceptable.

For more info, contact:

publicprotectiontraining@dumgal.gov.uk

DASH RIC Training

This online training will cover an overview of coercive control and the use of the DASH-RIC tool to assess risk and to refer victims/survivors to MARAC.

Click HERE to book your place.

Domestic Abuse Conference 2025

The local domestic abuse conference will focus on the latest research and best practice to respond to domestic abuse including the Safe and Together Model, the Homicide Timeline, Non-fatal Strangulation, the Safe and Together + MARAC Pilot, and more.

Speakers include: Jane Monckton-Smith – Homicide Timeline, Fiona Drouet – Emily Test Foundation, Fiona McMullen – ASSIST, Anna Smith – Safe Lives, Anna Mitchell – Safe & Together Institute.

In addition, there will be three workshops:

Workshops include:

• Safe and Together Perpetrator’s Pattern Mapping Tool
• The Caledonian System
• Post-Separation Abuse - insights for professionals on how to identify and evidence it

The Bridge – Glasgow Rd, Dumfries DG2 9AW

There are limited spaces, and it is expected that the conference will be oversubscribed. If you are interested in attending, please click HERE to complete the booking form and block the time in your diary.

Places will be confirmed two weeks prior to the conference.

WR Training for Trainers @ The Bridge – Dumfries

This training session will equip anyone who would want to become a White ribbon Speaker with tools and resources that can support their WR Talks.

The training session will cover:

• Gender Based Violence
• Violence Against women and Violence Against Men
• Domestic Abuse
• Gender and Gender Inequality.
• The Bystander Model, and more!

The Bridge – Glasgow Rd, Dumfries DG2 9AW

Click HERE to book your place.

Own My Life Taster Day: 

One-day training for professionals

This training introduces professionals them to the Own My Life course content and will enable them to more effectively refer women into the course.

The taster day will provide participants with high quality awareness about domestic abuse, trauma and women’s experiences, provide networking opportunities between services and ensure women receive the best support possible from local services.

Welcoming will be from 9am, starting at 9:30 sharp. Finish time is 3:30pm. 

Lunch will be included; email info@wigwa.org.uk for any dietary requirements.

Stranraer Millennium Centre

75 George Street Stranraer, DG9 7JP

Click HERE to book your place.

There are only 20 places available (but we will also have a waiting list).

In the event that you need to cancel, please give us at least 48 hours’ notice.

Email: info@wigwa.org.uk if you need more information.

Webinar:  

Domestic Abuse and Violence Against Women and Girls with Kim Irving and Myra Ross

Increasing understanding around Domestic Abuse and Violence Against Women and Girls

Building confidence to take action if someone you know may be experiencing abuse

Webinar:

Menopause and women we work with - Barbara Zaman ADP

Webinar:  

Incels and the Manosphere – Ellen Meredith, Rape Crisis 

With an input from Macy Cropper on D&G Rape Crisis Research with Young People on Consent.

Safe and Together Overview – In-person Event

This session provides professionals with the opportunity to understand how they can work in a way that is domestic abuse informed, providing a shared language that can be used to talk about domestic abuse without blaming the survivor for the abuse they have experienced. The training helps to support professionals to recognise perpetrating domestic abuse as a parenting choice and explore how professionals can hold perpetrators accountable for the harm, they cause their children.

The Cocoa Bean Factory

Ashland, Twynholm, Kirkcudbright DG6 4NP

Email safeandtogether@dumgal.gov.uk or click HERE to book your place.