Mar 2, 2022
Julie Budge is an award-winning Founder & CEO of My Sisters’ House Womens Centre in Coastal West Sussex. She has thirty+ years of working in various roles in the voluntary community sector, with an expertise in fundraising and a passion for helping women in need.
In 2014 she sat around her kitchen table with a few women she knew, and they formed the plans for the first women’s centre in West Sussex. Now the centre is a major key player in the landscape of women's services in West Sussex not only employing 26 women , supported by 50+ volunteers but supporting some 120+ women per month suffering multiple disadvantages such as abuse, mental health, poverty, homelessness, unemployment and more.
During the pandemic – the Centre remained operational and provided key frontline services to women most in need. Appearances on GMTV Lorraine with their Patron Dame Julie Walters, and prime-time coverage of the centre on a Panorama documentary called ‘escaping your abuser’ propelled the centre into national media. During lockdown Julie wrote about the journey ‘from kitchen table to women’s centre’ and the stories of the women who use the services.
Dame Julie Walters said the book is “Beautiful , so brave & wise, ultimately uplifting , even it did make me cry several times”. In Nov 2020 Julie received 2020 Women of the Year – Women in the Community Award.
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‘From Kitchen Table to Women’s Centre’ Book via: http://www.mysistershouse.info/ 80% profits to the Charity