Women Together with Radio Maria England

Women Together – Season 3 - Episode 1 – They are back!

Genevieve, Helena, Gail, Sandy, Janice and Di welcome Tito to the presenting group.  They will  present for  the third season of Women Together on Radio Maria England.  Once again, we have an exciting series hearing from all sorts of women with all sorts of experiences covering all sorts of subjects from social opportunities for people with and without learning disabilities, life on the edge, alcoholism, breast cancer and outdoor fitness as well as many others!

Each 4th Wednesday of the month, beginning the 30th of March, the women will present, LIVE, from 8:30pm – 9:30pm, sharing an interview with an expert or with someone that shares their testimony to listeners. Then, the phone lines will be open for the Radio Maria England community to call in and share their experiences or ask their questions!  You can call in at 01223 375564 or you can also text or What’s App a message to: 07502 385 010.

Women Together – Season 2 - Episode 13 – Barb Szyszkiewicz

Helena and Genevieve talk a little football and A LOT about prayer.  Helena interviews author, blogger and secular Franciscan, Barb Szyszkiewicz about her book, The Handy Little Guide to Prayer 

Women Together – Episode 12 – Breast Cancer UK

For their Live show on Thursday, July 1st, the presenters talk about breast cancer and discussions that can be discussed amongst prayer groups about awareness on reducing everyone’s risk.  Genevieve interviews Thalie Martini, CEO of Breast Cancer UK.

Thalie has over 18 years’ experience working in senior roles in the public and third sectors in the UK and Australia. Before joining Breast Cancer UK, Thalie was CEO of Magpie Dance, the UK’s leading dance charity for people with learning disabilities.  Thalie has run a number of high profile programmes including a national programme to transform care practice in schools for children with medical conditions at Diabetes UK; a major transformation project at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney; numerous statewide public health prevention programmes for New South Wales State government including a ground-breaking magistrates drug diversion initiative.  Thalie is passionate about prevention and social empowerment. Having lost her mother to Breast Cancer in 2007, Thalie is committed to making breast cancer prevention a policy and public health priority.

Breast Cancer UK’s mission is to prevent breast cancer through education, scientific research, collaboration and policy change.   Their website, www.breastcanceruk.org.uk, says that over 54,000 women and 390 men a year in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer. Yet a quarter of these cases are preventable through lifestyle changes. That means over 13,000 cases of breast cancer could be prevented, saving millions of lives, avoiding unnecessary suffering and reducing the cost to the NHS by over £1.5 billion a year. It is raising awareness of these preventable factors which drives Breast Cancer UK. They believe their work can have significant impact in helping women reduce their risk of developing breast cancer.

Breast Cancer UK has now launched our Breast Cancer UK Prevention Hub which is full of tips and advice on action they can take to reduce their risk of developing breast cancer. It is free, accessible and personalised and will give people the opportunity to develop their own personal prevention plan.  To access this new service, click this link:  Breast Cancer UK | Prevention Hub (breastcancerprevention.org.uk)

Women Together, Season 2 - 11

Sandy Hobson shares her testimony.  The presenters talk about following the Holy spirit and how God loves you in your brokenness.

Women Together, Season 2 - 10

Georgie Delaney, Co-Founder of The Great Outdoor Gym Company (TGO) joins the Women Together presenters to share the story behind the creation of The Great Outdoor Gym Company, how a revival in her faith and Christian fellowship helped her grow as a better wife, family member and team player.  Just recently, Georgie has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for her services to international trade and exports.  She is  writing a book,  Heal, Care Move that shares her experience with faith.

We would love to hear from you and your experience with Fitness, how faith has helped yourself and your fitness and if your Christian community has helped you re-centre your focus and support you to become the fullest person you are in Christ.  Please email [email protected] and one of the Women Together team will respond and hopefully we can share your story on an upcoming episode!

Women Together - Episode 9 - Guest, Elaine Cooper 

What is a Christian Education? How can education contribute to human flourishing? Elaine Cooper helped found The Heritage School in Cambridge, and talks about the inspirational work of Victorian educationalist Charlotte Mason. For more information on The Heritage School, please check out their website:  www.heritageschool.org.uk/about-heritage/history-of-heritage-school-cambridge

Women Together, with guest Kristina Cooper

Genevieve and Diane are pleased to welcome Kristina Cooper back to Season 2 of Women Together.  This time, she is in the "Guest Seat" sharing with us her book, The Little Witch Who Wanted to Be Good.  Just now learning about Kristina?  Well, she shared with us a little more about herself as well as more about her book.

This week, Women Together is very proud to have their first discussion on Radio Maria England about Pro-Life issues and how the church supports women that find themselves in troubled pregnancies.  The ladies are talking about Life Charity and discuss how the church supports people that choose #Life.   Liz Parson, the Director of Advocacy for Life Charity, speaks to Helena and shares how they train volunteers and staff to be skilled listeners to help support women that come to them for help.  She also shares how Life Charity offers support through mediations between families, housing placements, supplies for young families including nappies as well as importing the people they support through counselling.

Please do check out Life Charity website and learn more about how you, friends and your parish can help support families learn about their choices and how to support families in times of need.  Their National Hotline number is: 0808 802 5433.

The show will be LIVE on Thursday, May 27 at 11am.  If you would like to call and share your story with the presenters, please call, text or what’s app this number:   07502 385 010.  We’ll connect you to the presenters on the day.

Women Together - Season 2, Episode 6

Diane Redmond talks to Jane Burton, who worked and helped create Emmaus UK.  She shared the story of how Emmaus began and how it took saying Yes several times and letting God guide her to help cerate the amazing charity that Emmaus is today.  The presenters talk about how the church can help the homeless as well.  

Women Together - Season 2, Episode 5

Developing spiritual health.  The lockdown may have revealed our spiritual poverty for many of us, as we struggled to come to terms with the isolation and uncertainty of our new lives.  Certainly, to weather the storms of life, we need a robust spirituality.  But how do we develop this?  Margaret Mary McFadyen, well-known to Radio Maria England for her guided meditations, discusses what developing a deeper relationship with God, which guides and sustains us, is – and isn’t!  She also offers workable ways to connect with the divine in every-day life!  Listen on! Do you feel that that you’d like to develop your spirituality, but you don’t know how?  Or, have you found something in particular really useful as a means of encountering God?  Or, do you think introspection is navel-gazing?!  Whatever your views, Women Together would love to hear from you.