Media Releases
2025
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YWCA Canberra Sparks Community Innovation Through Great Ydeas Grants
On the morning of Tuesday 29 April, YWCA Canberra proudly hosted its annual Great Ydeas Innovation Breakfast, bringing together community leaders, advocates, and changemakers to celebrate the outstanding recipients of the 2025 Great Ydeas Small Grants Program. Established in 2010 to mark YWCA Canberra’s 80th anniversary, the Great Ydeas Small Grants Program has empowered over…
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Four Corners Revelations Highlight Important Role of Our Non-profit Early Learning Services
YWCA Canberra is deeply concerned at the serious issues raised in the ABC Four Corners broadcast Betrayal of Trust on 17 March 2025. As a non-profit provider of seven early learning services and 12 school age care services, YWCA Canberra provides early education services to over 3000 children each week. The safety and wellbeing of…
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Safer Families Assistance Payment Restored – Urgent Funding Boost Needed at Next ACT Budget
YWCA Canberra welcomes the reinstatement of the Safer Families Assistance payment. For the second year in a row, this funding was exhausted within 6 months of commencement, leaving people who were leaving violence without a critical $2000 safety net. Along with other frontline sector services, YWCA Canberra advocated to the Minister for the Prevention of…
2024
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If Not Now, When? YWCA Canberra supports the criminalisation of coercive control in the ACT.
YWCA Canberra welcomes the announcement by the Canberra Liberals to present a Bill to criminalise coercive control in the ACT. The proposed legislative reform follows the 2023 review of 12 domestic and family violence homicides in the ACT between 2000 and 2022. This review found that coercive controlling behaviours were present in nearly all cases…
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Empowering Women: YWCA Canberra’s Great Ydeas Small Grant Awards Recognise Four Outstanding Recipients
[Canberra, 18 April 2024] – YWCA Canberra proudly announces the recipients of the Great Ydeas Small Grant Awards, a testament to innovation and empowerment in supporting women’s causes. Four remarkable women this year have been honoured for their visionary ideas aimed at advancing the rights and opportunities of women in our community. The awards ceremony,…
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WGEA to Require Employers’ Response to New Questions on Workplace Sexual Harassment Prevention Efforts, Effective April 1, 2024
When WGEA (Workplace Gender Equality Agency) published the Gender Pay Gap results on 27 February, results displayed only 22% of CEOs are women, and 37% are in key management positions. Women make up 51% of the total workforce.
2023
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2022
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2021
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2020
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YWCA Canberra Continues to be Recognised as Employer of Choice
YWCA Canberra has been recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) for the sixth successive year. Chief Executive Officer, Frances Crimmins, said the citation program sends a strong message to employers from all sectors about the importance of equal opportunity and equal pay for all staff, regardless of…
2019
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