The Women's Resource Centre is a worthy recipient of donations collected by the Country Women's Association during an Ecumenical service on Sunday May 2.
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The Women's Resource Centre in Bega is a community service that aims to combat gender-based violence and inequality.
The centre receives $87,000 in government funding per year, which is only just enough to cover rent and running costs.
WRC coordinator Jane Hughes said the $943.45 donated by the CWA would help fund additional workshops or information seminars for women at the service.
"Generally what we can offer tends to be what people are happy to volunteer their time for, so we have facilitators who provide all different sorts of things, but consistently we have some art stuff, gentle exercise for older women and then we have a range of different pieces just with what facilitators are happy to share their time.
"If we could run something consistently or had money to pay for things we probably would do more self-esteem building, domestic violence recovery and you would need to pay proper facilitators.
"This is potentially the stuff I can do, but there's just not enough time with making the centre run. Plus you would need two facilitators for a workshop like that in case someone is distressed or triggered and needs to have that one-on-one time.
"It [the donation] will allow us to actually run something that's meeting the needs of women, so I do regular surveys to ask women what it is they are wanting and where there might be gaps in their own knowledge or particular issues coming up for them in their lives.
"At the moment in the media there is a lot about domestic violence and coercive control and I've also had a number of women from ethnic backgrounds come forward identifying these things."
Ms Hughes said they are looking into running workshops about the culture and law in Australia among other things to help women identify coercive control, abuse, and violence.
She said although grants can be effective for getting funds for particular projects, they can be challenging as they are tied to specific outcomes, target groups and the ideas that the funders have about what they want to see the money used for.
"So it doesn't always meet our needs in terms of being responsive to women who are accessing the service."
Annette Kennewell and Nelleke Gorton from the CWA were taken on a tour of the centre and were particularly taken aback by the artwork on the walls, largely created by local women about their lived experiences.
The centre also provides bathrooms, a shower and washing machine for women struggling with homelessness. Its halls are filled with rooms that are used for counselling, playgroups, art workshops or for women studying or needing to use a computer or printer.
They also run a community pantry on Thursday mornings with food from the major supermarkets donated for those in need and have clothing for women and children as well as sanitary products.
The centre collects gold coin donations to use these facilities which contribute to its continued running but it's not enforced if women are struggling to access food, sanitation products, or washing facilities.
To find out more about the services offered by the centre, all women in the community are invited to visit the centre on Wednesdays, Thursdays, or Fridays between 10am and 4pm at 14 Peden Street Bega.