Covid recovery wellbeing initiative from Lancaster women’s organisation

Lancaster’s business and entrepreneurial skills training organisation The Growing Club CIC has received a national funding award from the grant-making charity Rosa, who fund women’s grassroots organisations working to benefit communities.
By Gayle Rouncivell
Published 28th May 2021, 04:55 BST
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Women are one of the groups who have been more severely impacted during the pandemic. This is also backed up by government data and outlined in their Policy Paper - Covid-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing Recovery Action Plan2.

The London School of Economics stated3 that the UK government “consistently failed” to consider gender impacts on women during its Covid-19 response

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Gender inequality for women surged during the height of the pandemic, where women undertook more unpaid work, like caring responsibilities and having home-schooling children, where warnings were issued that women faced being shunted back to the 1950s in terms of society and inequality.