Concessions

Kingdom Abuse Survivors Project (KASP) will be posting content on their social media page during September to highlight the issues of childhood sexual abuse. They’ll also be showing the support available for survivors through their service.

Follow their posts on Kingdom Abuse Survivors Project - KASP | Kirkcaldy | Facebook

This exhibition follows on from the success of the previous installations held in Fife (St Andrews University in partnership with Got Consent?, and Fife College's Kirkcaldy, Glenrothes, Dunfermline, and Levenmouth Campuses in partnership with Fife College). FRASAC has also been an integral partner offering a confidential safe space area at each of the venues.

• The installation challenges participants to engage with our universal connection with clothing and reflect on what gives this specific rape culture myth so much power. To put clothing on is so basic and common, to take that action and conflate it with pain and suffering taints not only the individual outfit for the survivor; but also, calls into question all simplistic and normal behaviours as dangerous
• The stories utilised were donated by survivors and are used with their consent
• Clothing in the installation is not the actual clothing worn by the survivor, they are recreations of the stories that were donated
• The goal of the Installation is for participants to see themselves reflected in not only the outfits but also the stories. This realisation moves us away from blaming the victim for violence and places responsibility where it belongs, on those who caused harm

The installation will be facilitated by experienced, trained staff throughout the entirety. Resources and signposting routes will also be supported by partner organisations who will be available at information stalls.

We will be publicising all support avenues including FRASAC (Fife Rape and Sexual Assault Centre), NHS Gender Based Violence Nursing Team, Fife Women's Aid, Police Scotland, Rape Crisis Helpline, and the Sexual Assault Referral Coordination Services. Staff from various agencies will be holding stalls at the venue with further information about these services and the work they do with Fife Violence Against Women Partnership.

This is part of an ongoing roadshow that has been running in Fife. Further dates within the wider community setting will hopefully be added later in the year.

Please see our Exhibition Flyer for more details.

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence campaign ran from Friday 25^th November to Saturday 10^th December 2022.

This campaign aimed to raise awareness of gender inequality issues and most importantly highlight the need for change to create a Scottish society that embraces equality and rejects all forms of violence against women and girls.

This included supporting the National White Ribbon pledge - “never to commit, condone or remain silent about violence against women.

The programme contained:

• a mixture of in-person and online events, including talks and training sessions across a wide range of subjects
• a wide range of social media inputs, including posts, videos, blogs and chat events
• some practical ideas for involvement during the campaign
• a number of community based discussion events

The Fife Violence Against Women Partnership co-ordinates campaigns with partners. To give you a flavour of what we have been involved in over the years, our previous are listed below, with links to our campaign messages at the bottom of the page:

• #ToointoyouFVAWP2019
• #consent FVAWP2019
• #FVAWP16days2020

Part of our public awareness strategy has been to host exhibitions from national Violence Against Women (VAW) partners, that highlight various areas of Gender Based Violence. In 2019 we hosted two:

1. Zero Tolerance’s "Violence Unseen" photography exhibition, exploring types of violence against women that remain unseen and unacknowledged by mainstream society
2. Inside Outside - an exhibition which explores Women’s experiences of the sex industry in Scotland using multi-media platforms.