FWT - a centre for women

18/12/2025

Our centre is now closed until Monday 5th January 2026. Our teams are working remotely up to Christmas Eve but the centre is closed over the festive period.

We wish you all a peaceful Christmas time, and look forward to opening our doors and welcoming you back on Monday 5th January 2026.

18/12/2025

Yesterday, we held a Women’s Group at FWT as part of the 'Our Coventry' partnership project to celebrate Christmas and the New Year.

15 women attended, sharing their goals and visions for the year ahead. We shared refreshments enjoyed lively discussions and supported women to build friendships with each other to reduce isolation, as many of the women are newly arrived .

The feedback was excellent, with all the women expressing their happiness with the session and how welcomed they felt at FWT.
Funded Coventry

09/12/2025

"This course helped me become a new woman, who is strong and independent".

Do you want to build your confidence in our safe, trusted, women only centre?
Join our free, 8-week course, starting on Thursday 15th January 2026, to help you develop your self esteem, create boundaries and much more on our funded Confidence Building sessions.

Our service users have told us how this course has helped to "transform" their lives by learning new skills.

To register yourself or to find out more, contact us at (07950) 813581 or email raman.nijjar@fwt.org.uk

04/12/2025

28/11/2025

Tomorrow, Coventry stands together to remember women whose lives were taken by domestic abuse and violence this past year.
📍 Smithford Way (outside Post Office, West Orchards)
🕘 9am–4pm
Join the vigil, light a candle, pay respects, and connect with local support services. 💜

27/11/2025

FWT’s and health projects teams supported recently by raising awareness on various topics, through sessions and events with partners in Coventry and Warwickshire.

In , we worked closely with the midwife team and other professionals, promoting health advice for babies and mums. We supported a group session with BABH on ‘Healthy Parent, Healthy Baby’.

In , MAMTA participated in the launch of the Best Start in Life Community Hub. Just under 90 families attended.
The MAMTA team also delivered activities at the Family Hub and in MAMTA Parentcraft to pregnant women and women who have just had babies.
All service users gave fantastic feedback.
FWT’s MAMTA programme works together with commissioners and health partners to deliver key health messages in pregnancy and after baby is born to minority ethnic women. For more information, please contact the MAMTA team on MAMTA@fwt.org.uk or 024 7663 7693
For more information on emotional wellbeing, please contact pmht@fwt.org.uk

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Maternity Services at UHCW NHS Trust Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust Coventry & Warwickshire Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership Coventry Coventry Start for Life UHCW University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire

27/11/2025

Learning Partner opportunity – Coventry Women’s Partnership

Coventry Women’s Partnership are seeking a Learning Partner to support our place-based systems change programme focused on reducing gendered poverty through improved housing systems in Coventry. This work is funded by the Smallwood Trust for an initial two-year period, but our ambitions and programme are long-term and evolving.

We are not looking for a traditional evaluator. We are seeking a critical friend, a reflective, adaptive partner who can walk alongside us, help us make sense of change as it happens, and support us to embed learning, reflection, and evidence into everything we do.

Support FWT - a centre for women CRASAC Coventry Haven Women's Aid Kairos Women Working Together on this new programme.

Full brief on the link below

There are no current vacancies at FWT.

14/11/2025

On Wednesday 12th November 2025, we welcomed 21 women to FWT for our ‘Tea, Tales and Togetherness’ workshop, as part of Coventry . We started with a presentation, followed by poems, activities, competitions, and refreshments.
During the presentation, we had a powerful discussion about “what peace means to you?”, and women shared their ideas and personal thoughts. For our creative activity, every woman attending wrote one word about peace based on their own feelings and understanding. It was an engaging, inclusive, positive, and inspiring event.
We would like to thank Coventry City Council for the additional funding enabling us to rung this event. We’d also like to say a big thanks you to other organisations, including Coventry Women’s Partners, and Panahghar who promoted the event and engaged women.

12/11/2025

Our events are all listed online, and start Monday 17th November. Workshops for minority ethnic women are taking place at our women only centre, plus City of Coventry Health Centre, Drapers Room, Families for All Hub, and an online Zoom session for pregnant and new mums unable to attend in person events.
Coventry Start for Life South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Maternity Services at UHCW NHS Trust NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre Coventry Health Visiting Service

Baby Week is a campaign dedicated to raising the awareness of support available to mothers and babies. This year’s theme is ‘Healthy Parent – Healthy Baby’ and we invite mums […]

10/11/2025

We have started a brand new 36-week 'Maths Essential Skills' course run by Adult Education. There are still places available, so if you are looking to improve your maths skills and have an Entry 2 level understanding of English, contact us at employment@fwt.org.uk or call 075 3809 3004 to find out if you are eligible to join. Coventry City Council Job Shop Coventry West Midlands Combined Authority Voluntary Action Coventry Coventry & Warwickshire CDA Coventry Haven Women's Aid CRASAC Kairos Women Working Together Coventry Libraries and Information Service

06/11/2025

To raise awareness for , FWT will be hosting, and joining several events across Coventry from Monday 17th November to Wednesday 19th November.

The MAMTA and Perinatal Mental Health teams will be holding virtual and onsite sessions, which minority ethnic pregnant mothers' can join for free.

To find out more, please contact us at PNMH@fwt.org.uk

MAMTA Child & Maternal Health programme is commissioned to support minority ethnic women at antenatal and postnatal stages. MAMTA is now offered as a Universal opt-in referral route to any minority ethnic woman in Coventry during pregnancy, for culturally sensitive women only support up to when baby is born, and early postnatal stages.
Coventry Start for Life South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Maternity Services at UHCW NHS Trust Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board NCT Parents in Mind Coventry & Warwickshire Coventry & Warwickshire Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership

02/11/2025