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November 2008 - Ruth Kelly supports Working Families

From our perspective as working women, you would imagine that we would find a natural synergy between the organisation Working Families and City Women’s Network. For a start we are both in our 30th year. And yet I don’t remember our doing a mutual event in all these years, except at one of our recent annual dinners when we had speakers from Working Families and supported the charity with donations.

One of this country’s most well-known mothers, Ruth Kelly, was the keynote speaker, at the Working Families event in November 2008, and she was well able to articulate the difficulties of coping with a high powered job and young children. Recently, of course, she famously stepped down from the very high powered role of a government minister, planning soon to give up her work as an MP and become a full-time mother.

Sarah Jackson, chief executive of Working Families, articulated the work it does to support families with working mothers, in particular campaigning for family friendly practices in the workplace. The purpose of the evening was to enrol new supporters, in particular as Changemakers, who are higher level, regular donors.

The event was hosted by Ernst & Young who sponsored with generous hospitality.

Vanda Green




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