THE STRUCTURE OF WHISC

WHISC is run by a Management Committee which oversees all the legalities of running a limited company and registered charity. The Management Committee is made up of women who are actively involved with WHISC, students from past and current women's health courses and women who are interested in WHISC'S objectives.

At present there are three full time workers, - Gail Hayes, the manager, Jeanne Kelly Administrator/Information worker and Margie Hughes, the Volunteer Organiser, and two part-time - Maggi Williams, community project worker, outreach and Clair Atkinson, computer information worker. Clair and Maggi are funded by the National Lottery Charity Board, as part of WHISC's community project.

Then, most importantly, there are all the volunteers.

WHISC'S FUNDING FOR A WOMEN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK 1998/99 ·

• Liverpool City Council provides core funding, assessed on a yearly basis, for two posts - Manager and Administrator/Information Worker - plus some running costs. ·
• Liverpool Health Authority provides funding for one post - Volunteer Organiser - for one year plus some project running costs. This funding runs out in March 2000, and further funding needs to be found for this vital post. ·
• Lotteries Board funding for the Women's Health bus Project in Liverpool 8 ceased in May 1998, but the project was continued for several months before the bus was finally sold.
• A community worker was appointed for a six-month period with some remaining funds, before more funding was obtained from the National Lottery Charities board, for a further. three year, community project.
• John Moores Foundation funded the continuation of the Community Project at Lodge Lane until March 1999.
• Students and Volunteers fund-raising via book sales, sponsored activities, etc.

Fund-raising is constant. No one funder pays for all of
WHISC's interlinked activities.

Women's Health Information and Support Centre

120 BOLD STREET
LIVERPOOL
L1 4JA

TEL: 0151 707 1826
FAX: 0151 709 2566