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Letter to Reform UK
We wrote to Richard Tice MP, Deputy Leader of Reform UK. See below for the text of the letter: Dear Mr Tice I am writing to you on behalf of Centenary Action, a cross-party...
Letter to Minister for Women and Equalities about Section 106
Together with Electoral Reform Society we wrote to Baroness Jacqui Smith of Malvern, Minister for Women and Equalities to welcome her commitment to enacting Section 106 of the...
Nordic/ British International Women’s Day celebration
Working with the Embassies of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and the Representation of the Faroe Islands and the APPG Nordic Countries, the APPG Women in Parliament...
Inspiring Future Leaders for International Women’s Day
To mark International Women's Day 2025, the APPG Women in Parliament hosted a special event connecting young women with parliamentarians. Young women attended from Centenary...
Supporting Women Leaders event for International Women’s Day
To celebrate International Women's Day 2025, Centenary Action along with CARE International UK and The Circle, brought together over 100 parliamentarians, women's rights leaders,...
Letter to Conservative Chairmen
In February 2025 we wrote to the Conservative Chairmen. You can see the text of the letter below: 6 February 2025 Dear Lord Johnson and Mr Huddleston Congratulations on being...
Disabled women in politics roundtable
In January 2025 we brought together disabled women in politics for an online roundtable, chaired by steering group member and founder of the Disabled Women in Politics Network,...
Leader of the House speaks at January Women in Parliament APPG meeting
On 15th January 2025, the Women in Parliament All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) was delighted to welcome the Leader of the House, Lucy Powell MP, to share insights into the...
Centenary Action publishes new research
Centenary Action and the University of Antwerp, published new research using data from the House of Commons Library, showing that to reach the cross-party supported ambition of a...
Celebrating Women in Parliament: Next steps to gender equality
We kicked off 2025 with an inspiring and uplifting event in Parliament, bringing together our members, supporters, and parliamentarians to reflect on progress and map out the...
Roundtable with Conservative women
In December 2024, we brought together Conservative women for an in-person roundtable in Parliament, sponsored by Mims Davies MP. The discussion focused on the experiences of...
Submission to the Modernisation Committee
In response to the new Modernisation Committee's call for views, we wrote a submission jointly with King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership, with input from our Academic...
Kirsty McNeill MP speaks at our Dec members’ meeting
We were delighted to welcome Kirsty McNeill MP, Minister at the Scotland Office to our December 2024 members meeting for an inspiring and uplifting conversation. Kirsty shared...
Gigglemas – water, kefir and wine
For one night only we put down our placards for a ‘Gigglemas’ Fundraiser, bringing together 60 incredible women (and men) with Comedians Sandi Toksvig, Charlotte Evans, Shalaka...
Letter to Lucy Powell MP, Chair of the Modernisation Committee
Following the establishment of the new Modernisation Committee, Centenary Action convened academics with expertise in how parliament works for women and women MPs, to write to...
Inaugural Meeting of the Women in Parliament APPG
Centenary Action is delighted to be taking on the role of Secretariat for the Women in Parliament APPG. The inaugural meeting was held on 23rd October 2024. At the meeting Mims...
Roundtable on Financial Barriers Faced by Women in Politics
Centenary Action was delighted to join a roundtable on 'Unravelling (Financial) Barriers Faced by Women in Politics' in Portcullis House in Parliament. The event was organised by...
Centenary Action at Party Conferences 2024
Helen with Uma Kumaran MP at Labour Party Conference.Centenary Action attended the Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative Party Conferences this year, taking the opportunity...
Centenary Action gets back to business
In September, Centenary Action Business Link hosted it’s fifth meet thanks to recruitment firm Ellwood Atfield, a communication, policy, and advocacy headhunter; bringing...
New Women’s Caucus Launched in Parliament
Centenary Action Convener, Professor Helen Pankhurst CBE, joined the first ever UK Parliament Women’s Caucus meeting organised by our member The Fawcett Society. The meeting was...
Letter to Keir Starmer
We wrote to the new Prime Minister to celebrate 40% of MPs being women for the first time and to push for more action to achieve a gender equal parliament by 2028.
Get out the vote campaign van tours Manchester
As part of the #SheVotes24 campaign our digital campaign van toured Manchester to support the 2nd July anniversary of equal suffrage and encourage women to vote in the upcoming...
Centenary Action welcomes Labour commitment to establish Modernisation Committee
Centenary Action welcomed the Labour Party Manifesto commitment to establish a Modernisation Committee tasked with reforming House of Commons procedures, driving up standards,and...
Centenary Action welcome Lib Dem manifesto commitment to #Enact106
The Liberal Democrats have now launched their manifesto for the 2024 General Election, which included a commitment to #Enact106 of the Equality Act so that parties have to...