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SERICC NewsFind out what's happening at your local Rape & Incest Crisis Centre: SERICC Video NewsFor video coverage of Thurrock news and events involving SERICC, visit www.yourthurrock.com Looking forward... to 2009SERICC is looking forward to celebrating 25 years of providing services to women and girls.  March 2009SERICC and Rape Crisis England & Wales take part in the Women's Resource Centre and the Equality and Human Rights Commission Event: 'Seizing the opportunities of CEDAW Developing a women's sector strategy for 2011'. To find out more, visit:
 March 2009SERICC took part recently in a web magazine for young people. We particularly like the myths and Facts short film. (It takes a minute to register to view the magazine). TrueTube videos and short films cover a number of social, moral and ethical topics from feminism and music to disability and bullying. The TrueTube team have recently put together a series of films on Rape and Assault. Visit www.truetube.co.uk/media.php?do=issues&issueid=62 to view all the films. Please check our website for details of forthcoming events. 2008 was an exciting year for SERICC February 2008Early in the year SERICC was visited by the Minister for the Eastern Region Photo: The Deputy Minister for Women, Barbara Follett; councillor Terry Hipsey; SERICC's director Sheila Coates; councillor Gordon Gambier and Pam Court, chief executive of the South West Essex Primary Care Trust.  February 2008At the end of February SERICC attended the Rape Crisis National Conference held in Leeds, and went on in April to represent Rape Crisis in Canada.  March 2008International Women's Day celebration and inaugural 'Women Million Rise' March.  April 2008In April, representatives from Rape Crisis groups in the UK were invited to a global Women's Conference in Vancouver April 2008.  June 2008SERICC represented Rape Crisis at the Convention on Elimination of all Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) held in the United Nations in New York. CEDAW web site: www.iwraw-ap.org Photo: Sheila Coates and Lee Eggleston from South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre in the United Nations General Assembly.   October/November 2008SERICC's very own Sheila Coates receives an MBE (October) and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Thurrock Council (November).  November 2008Joined the annual national women's 'Reclaim the Night' march, organised by the London Feminist Network. Previous achievements SERICC, a place to seeSERICC's building has been featured in three architectural books and several magazines, including 'One of the 1000 places to see...' The latest book is 'London 2000+: New Architecture' by Sam Lubell and Ken Livingstone. SERICC Wins RIBA Award!  SERICC, exterior & interior Since the summer of 2003, SERICC has been working with Sarah Featherstone Associates to redesign counselling and office space. The practice spent time with counsel workers and women to understand the nature of their work and how women feel when they visit the centre. This information was developed into emotional diagrams which have inspired the new design. Pod-like windows clad in timber shingles have been installed on the outside of the building. Likened to 'Listening Ears', the blinkered windows provide privacy and seating to the new counselling rooms. Private and public circulation spaces wind around a central 'ribbon wall', which provides acoustic and visual separation between the main offices and counselling rooms. Inspired by the complete transformation of the Crisis Centre, Thurrock Council have appointed Featherstone Associates to design a new Centre for Children with Disabilities in the nearby town of Tilbury - another project in desperate need of a sensitive but playful approach. The Crisis Centre was completed December 2005. SERICC were delighted to be one of the winners of the East Region Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA) awards. For more information:
Sarah Featherstone BA Hons Dip Arch RIBA
RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architecture)
RIBA Awards 2007 - East SERICC Wins Award For DesignThe Building Better HealthCare Awards took place on 8th November 2007. SERICC were entered into Best Primary and Community Care Design. The judges awarded SERICC a Special Judges Award and described SERICC as a 'little gem' within the community. The award was presented by architect and broadcaster Professor Maxwell Hutchinson. Anita Roddick
DISPATCH: Delight The Eye
Posted on June 8, 2007 by Anita Roddick
A year ago I came across an organisation called the South East Rape and Incest Crisis Centre (SERICC) - who provide a service to women and girls over 13 years old who have been raped, sexually assaulted, experienced child sexual abuse, sexual harassment or who have experienced any form of sexual violence or attempted sexual assault. They were housed in a nondescript building, but as I entered I was thunderstruck by the design. It was the best example of the aesthetics of space I had recently seen. I immediately contacted the architect Sarah Featherstone, (who cycles almost everywhere) to see her portfolio of work. And now a year later, I have a brand new office space, which is pretty amazing. Choosing graphics for the walls was easy - use the past as a prologue - I steered towards the old political posters. I love them. www.brushstroke.tv/peace.html
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