Women in Profile was set up in 1987 upon the announcement that Glasgow would hold the European City of Culture status in 1990. It consisted of community artists, grass-roots activists, academics and broad based arts practitioners who wanted to ensure that women's achievements in the arts were represented during this celebration, and not solely the achievements of men. Collectively they ran a season of events, workshops, exhibitions, projects and other activities before and during the year 1990. One of their largest projects was the creation of Castlemilk Womanhouse. The Womanhouse opened during the Summer of 1990 when a group of artists, led by three graduates of the Glasgow School of Art, gained access to a four storey council tenement building in the Castlemilk area of Glasgow. The aim with this project was to free up the space for female artists and local women and children by running arts workshops, creating installations and exhibiting art. Over the course of their existence Women in Profile gathered materials relating to its activities and, after consultation with the local community and women's groups across the City of Glasgow, opened Glasgow Women's Library in September 1991.
Women for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (WNFIP) emerged from Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in 1984, after a gathering at Green Gate on 1st March organised by Zohl dé Ishtar to mark Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day. One of several groups in Europe formed to support the Indigenous-led movement for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP), launched in Fiji in 1975, WNFIP focused particularly (although not exclusively) on building solidarity with Indigenous women from the region. At its peak, the WNFIP network stretched across England and Scotland, with active groups in several towns and cities. The network dwindled in the 1990s, but the London group continued to publish a newsletter until disbanding in 2000.
The Western Shoshone solidarity group has its origins in November 1990 when three women who knew each other from Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp - Juley Howard, Lorna Richardson and Jane Gallop – were asked by Rebecca Johnson, a Greenham woman working at Greenpeace, to go to the Nevada Test Site to try to prevent the detonation of a British nuclear bomb on Western Shoshone land. The group expanded into a wider network in the UK (under various names) and conducted a range of actions in the early-to-mid-1990s. Although the group then began to disperse, it was reactivated by the 40th anniversary of the founding of Greenham in 2021.
The Wellpark Enterprise Centre (1996-2002) was a women’s’ enterprise centre based in the east end of Glasgow that sought to encourage women to engage in enterprise. It provided a range of resources, including 590sqm of subletting space, ICT services, as well as running projects designed to support potential, nascent and existing women-led businesses. From 2001 onwards, due to reliance on grants from funding partners and [little in the way of active monetary returns], it experienced financial difficulties, eventuality resulting in the liquidation of the company board, and a hand-over of the company and its remaining assets to Glasgow City Council on 1st June 2002.
'Notts Women Strike Back' originally made as a fund raising video for Welbeck Women's Action Group. Shows the work of one of the women's action groups formed at the start of the recent coal dispute to support the minority of striking miners in Nottingham.
The Walter Seagal Self-Build Trust was founded upon the death of Seagal, the architect, in 1985. It aimed to promote his ideas on self-building and encourage projects.
The International Wages for Housework Campaign (IWFHC) is a grassroots women's network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and outside. The campaign was initiated in 1972 by Selma James, who first put forward the demand for wages for housework at the third National Women's Liberation Conference in Manchester (UK), coining the word 'unwaged'. The IWFHC state that they begin with those who possess the least power internationally – unwaged workers in the home (mothers, housewives, domestic workers denied pay), unwaged subsistence farmers and workers on the land and in the community. They consider the demand for wages for unwaged caring work to be also a perspective and a way of organising from the bottom up, of autonomous sectors working together to end the power relations among them.
Federation of trade unions.