The WNC acts as a bridge between women and government and ensures that women’s voices are heard by policy makers and are heard in public debate. The remit of the WNC is to ‘ensure that, by all possible means, the informed opinion of women is made known to Government’.

Some of the ways we do this include:

• Engaging with our partners (around 500 women’s organisations and organisations that represent women, as well as individual experts), feeding their views into government policy making;
  
• We inform partners when government departments hold consultations and coordinate a response;
  
• We hold events around the UK to ensure we hear from as many women as possible and aim to recruit partners that are representative of their area.
  
• We facilitate meetings between women’s organisations and Government Ministers and officials;
  
• Partners are sent quarterly newsletters and regular emails on relevant issues and campaigns. We also produce the ‘WNC’s Partners Directory’ listing all partners. 
  
• The WNC offers opportunities for partners to help decide its priorities by participating in the bi-annual WNC conference.

We are always keen to recruit new partners and we target those in under-represented sectors and regions.

If you would like to become a WNC Partner please click on the Join WNC page.