Chlo Winfield – after having to push the police to take action in relation to the abuse that she had experienced as a young teenager, began to campaign around the domestic and sexual abuse of young women. She began with presentations to students and staff at her school, before setting up the campaigning organisation Speak Out, running awareness raising training for professionals, and contributing to policy on a national level, all whilst completing her GCSEs and A Levels.
Yes Matters is an organisation founded by Gemma Aitchinson in 2013 following the rape and murder of her younger sister. The organisation is working with survivors and communities to tackle victim blaming, and conducting research on the impact of sexual objectification on women and girls on our equal access to justice.
Helen Steel is one of eight women who together brought a ground-breaking civil claim against the Metropolitan police for their abusive practice of enabling undercover police officers to form long term intimate relationships with the women they were spying on. Helen was pivotal in organising the claimants, waived her anonymity and gave press interviews in order to ensure maximum media coverage, and has always been insistent on highlighting the police abuse as a form of violence against women.
Nominees
Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
Action Breaks Silence
Build A Girl
Project ACEi