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The Hull Women's centre has been providing support for women in Hull since 1977. Annie Hawksley is the Advocacy Worker at the centre. She says the centre gives advice to women on how to find the information they need regarding; benefits, what to do when they have financial difficulties and how to get help looking after children. Additionally, the centre helps women who find themselves the victims of violence.

One of the services the centre offers, which is located in Queen's Dock Avenue, is a creche.ΜύAnnie stresses the centre is there to provide a "safe space" in which women can find a refuge and support for the issues they face.

Adele Clough has been involved with the WAM! Women, Arts and Media formerly known as Women And new Media since its inception in 2002, but began working at the Women's Centre in 1999 after returning from university in Derby. Adele is the Project Co-ordinator of WAM!.

Shortly after joining the Women's Centre's management committee and being involved in health issues, Adele was instrumental in setting up a women's resource centre on Preston Road in the city.

WAM! gives women access to the tools to help them learn the new media skills they need to compete in today's media workplace which has been traditionally been dominated by men. Adele reports women have gone on to university to progress their careers further after learning skills at the centre.

Digital media encompasses many aspects, including digital photography, music making and web production. WAM! is hoping to attract funding to invest in new services and hopes to encourage more professional artists to become involved to expand the range of interests and opportunities for women to take part in, including dance.

The main image on this page is the front cover of a booklet produced in 2007 and was a project looking back at thirty years of the work of the Centre through recollections and memories of women who have passed through its doors.

Adele says some of the memories evoke strong feelings of both happiness and sadness, but says the project is a positive one. Adele and Annie say some of the women who contributed to the booklet are still involved with the Centre and are able to offer women using the Centre for the first time, the benefit of their experience.

Adele and Annie commented that although there are many organisations helping women across the city, those organisations tend to specialise in one particular area and what differentiates the Hull Women's Centre from the others is that they are open to suggestions as to how to support women in a variety of different ways.