Celebrating International Women’s Day
CLA Rural Adviser Jane Harrison joined Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland on International Women’s Day to celebrate the work of a CLA Charitable Trust beneficiary, charity West End Women and Girls Centre
CLA Rural Adviser Jane Harrison joined Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland on International Women’s Day to celebrate the work of a CLA Charitable Trust beneficiary, charity West End Women and Girls Centre. Supporting their work, the Duchess is now a patron of the charity.
The celebration took place at ‘Our Farm’, a smallholding in Northumberland which is leased from the National Trust where the charity hosts a variety of countryside activities such as learning about agroecology; foraging; planting hedgerows and trees; sowing and harvesting vegetables; cooking their own food; making dens; and looking after animals.
In 2023, the CLA Charitable Trust granted the Centre £5,000 to support the salary costs of a youth and community worker to facilitate activities on the Centre’s smallholding which benefitting around 321 girls and young women, aged 5 to 18, since the grant was made.
