Ten years, one mission: our first impact report

2025 marks ten years of Agenda Alliance, and a decade of us striving to make a difference for women and girls at the sharpest end of inequality.

We're therefore delighted and so proud to share our first ever impact report, “Ten years, one mission: keeping women and girls’ needs on the agenda”.

Across the last decade, Agenda Alliance has worked tirelessly to build a better future for women and girls facing serious adversity.

Our ten-year impact report details how we've pushed the overlooked and underrepresented needs of women and girls onto the political agenda since our formation.

Read our impact report: 'Ten years, one mission: keeping women and girls needs on the agenda'

In 2015, representatives from a few trusts, foundations, and voluntary sector organisations gathered, motivated to galvanise the momentum of Baroness Corston’s 2007 report and what it said about the needs of women and girls in contact with the criminal justice system.

Their answer was Agenda: formed to advocate for women and girls at risk, and fight to break the cycle of harm caused by the failures of public services and systems of inequality.

Ten years later, this small group has grown into an alliance of 130 members across England and Wales, spanning every sector relevant to the interconnected nature of women and girl’s multiple unmet needs.

Our work now spans 4 key pillars:

• Convening power: we bring our membership together to collaborate and knowledge-share, to foster the cross-sector, holistic, solutions women and girls need.
• Well-renowned research: we’ve built a reputation for publishing trusted evidence that shines a light on the intersectional challenges facing women and girls at the sharpest end of inequality.
• Amplifying voices: we produce our work with and alongside women and girls who are too often overlooked or dismissed, platforming their voices, and advocating for other organisations and services to do the same.
• Campaigning for change: we harness the collective power of our alliance, our research, and women and girls themselves, to influence government, services, and the media, securing shifts across policy, practice and public perception.

Across the decade, we’ve:

• Pioneered an entirely new evidence base, pushing the unmet needs of women and girls at the sharpest end of inequality onto the agenda.
• Campaigned for the links between women’s trauma and abuse to be recognised in policy and practice.
• Fought the harms of an outdated Mental Health Act.
• Convened powerful networks to uplift overlooked and marginalised voices.
• Built the first national project to advocate for the needs of young women in contact with the criminal justice system.
• Built an organisational speciality in place-based working to harness the potential of local communities.

Read the report to find out more, and hear directly from our members and the women we work alongside.