April Meet Up of Women of Dorset


Women of Dorset undertake a lot of our work on line, whether it's in chat groups or Zoom meetings, so it's always good when we meet face to face.

We try to meet roughly every four weeks and for the April meet up we talked about the upcoming Police and Crime Commissioner elections, Dorset Council elections and the by-election in BCP for the Canford Cliffs Ward and how we'd need to challenge candidates on sex based rights and safeguarding.

There was also a lot of chat about other work we were undertaking, some of which you can see in the news articles that are also on the blog.

For our next meet up we're going to Weymouth as we have few members in the west of Dorset.  The elections will have just been held, so we'll have a good idea of what we might be up against.

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