Orange Wolverhampton
The Chris Allen Podcast
Sunday, 8 December 2024 - 18 minutes
The annual Orange Wolverhampton campaign ran from Monday 25 November to December 10th to raise awareness of the city’s continuing drive to end domestic abuse, female genital mutilation, forced marriage, so-called honour-based violence, sexual violence and stalking and harassment.
Information for each campaign can be found on www.orangewolves.net.
On three successive Sundays in my lunchtime show I spoke respectively with Cllr Obaida Ahmed (Cabinet member for Digital and Community), Cllr Jas Dehar (Chair of Interfaith Wolverhampton) and Cllr Leigh New (pictured above), who bravely shared with me her story on live radio.
This podcast features excerpts from those conversations.
If you are affected by any of the issues raised by this podcast, please contact one of the support organisations below. In an emergency, always call 999.
- The Haven Wolverhampton 24-hour helpline for women - 08000 194400
- St George’s Hub support for male victims - 01902 421904
- Karma Nirvana helpline for victims of so-called ‘honour-based’ violence and forced marriage - 0800 5999 247
- Wolverhampton Adult Social Care - 01902 551199
- Wolverhampton Children's Social Care - 01902 555392
- West Midlands Forced Marriage and Honour-Based Violence Helpline - 0800 953 9777
- National Domestic Violence helpline for women - 0808 2000 247
- National Domestic Violence helpline for men - 0808 8010327
- NSPCC Female Genital Mutilation helpline - 0800 028 3550
