Supporting Agenda Alliance: Big Give 2025

Our Chief Executive, Indy Cross, outlines how supporting Agenda Alliance will empower women and girls with lived experience to advocate for systems change.

This October, Agenda Alliance is proud to take part in the Big Give's Women and Girls Match Fund campaign.

In England, one in 20 women experience extensive violence and abuse. Too often, the aftermath of this trauma leads to further disadvantage – poverty, poor mental health, homelessness, addiction or exposure to the criminal justice system. And yet, the very systems designed to help women frequently fail them. Even worse, their voices are too often missing from the conversations about how to put things right.

At Agenda Alliance, we believe change only happens when women and girls with lived experience are at the centre of solutions. Through our Women’s Advisory Network, we support women to share their expertise, shape research, and speak directly to decision-makers. Their knowledge, courage and insight guide our campaigns and shine a light on what needs to change.

As CEO, I am constantly moved by the strength and determination of our Alliance members and the women and girls that we work alongside. Their voices not only inspire our team, but hold the power to shift systems that have ignored them for too long. This campaign will help us remove barriers to participation by funding the ability to convene, research, and amplify these voices.

More specifically, it will support three new policy labs, where women with lived experience of abuse and trauma will come together to develop national policy recommendations – in a trauma-informed setting. It will also ensure their voices are heard on a national stage – including at Agenda Alliance’s inaugural members event, where our priorities will be set in strategy for the next 5 years.

The impact will be twofold: women and girls gain confidence, skills and deserved recognition; and the systems that affect their lives begin to shift. Together, we can help create services and policies that finally respond with compassion, fairness and effectiveness.

From tomorrow, every donation to the Big Give Women & Girls campaign will be doubled! Join us this October from the 8th – 15th, to stand with women and girls – and to help put their voices at the heart of change.

At midday on the 8th October, click here to double your donation.