Saheli Women's Group

The Saheli Women's Group was formed in 1988 through a Balsall Heath Forum resident involvement plan. The Forum set up a separate women's group as local Asian women were not getting involved in local decision making processes.

We hold monthly meetings (first Tuesday, of every month). Through a feasibility study, we established the need of the local women for a women's health and fitness facility which had to be 'run by women, for women'.

The Saheli Group became a Charity in it's own right in 2002, charity number 1091168.

We now deliver activities for young local women aged 13-18, as many young women do not have opportunities outside of school and home. The young women go rock climbing, skiing, canoeing, horse riding, biking, quad biking and go-karting and many other activities too numerous to mention. Through these activities they have developed enough confidence and started to attend local discussions and consultation events in the area.

The group secured a space in the Cannon Hill Education and Training Centre, a part of South Birmingham College, to allow local women to access a small health and fitness facility piloting gender specific provision. We had over 50 women attending a day for the women only sessions on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Wednesday was a 'men only day' which took a while to build up, Friday was a mixed session day. This proved that where appropriate 'gender specific and culturally appropriate services' for a community can and does work.

Thanks to South Birmingham College and the Healthy Living Centre initiative's support, we secured half a million to renovate the small gym into a fully functioning gym to include showers, toilets, changing rooms and state of the art equipment. The renovations were completed in mid 2006. The Saheli Adventure Hub was officially launched on June the 24th 2006.

Below is a list of our current Trustees and Employees, click on their name to view their profile.

Saheli Trustees
Chair	Vice Chair	Secretary	Treasurer
Saima Amreen	Nazreen Bi	Farida Wasim	Sabbah Wasim

Trustee	Trustee	Trustee	Trustee	Trustee	Trustee
Shehla Ziaee	Laila Khan	Salma Afzal	Samina Amreen	Nadia Afzal	Zakia Ahmed

Saheli Managers
Saheli Project Manager	Development Officer
Naseem Akhtar	Rakhyia Begum

Saheli Adventure Hub Staff
Adventure Hub Manager	Senior Fitness Instructor	Senior Fitness Instructor	Receptionist	Receptionist
Shebina Gill	Norma Green	Michael Edmead	Noreen Akhtar	Yasmin Kausar

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