Campaigns & Action

Gemma is currently:

. CEO & Founder – YES Matters UK
. CYP Officer – Women’s Aid Federation of England
. Youth Lead – FiLiA MVAWG Task Force
. Chair of GMCA VAWG Panel
. EVAW Coalation Member
. YouMySister Board Member
. Greater Manchester Women & Girls Equality Panel Member
. Greater Manchester Doulas CIC Safeguarding Lead
. Salford VOCAL Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse Forum Member

Her recent campaign focuses are:

The impact of pornography on children and young people.

Gemma was part of the parliamentary APPG on Pornography Regulation in March 2023. This showed that the average age of exposure to pornography in the UK is currently 7 years old. This impacts their behavioural regulation development, their social development and has huge implications for the normalising of male violence against women and girls.

Responding to VAWG as serial and escalating offences.

Men who murder women and girls always have a history of VAWG. Offenses such as pedocriminality, sexual offences, domestic abuse and stalking are always multiple victim offending. So when violence against women and girls is not taken seriously by our justice system, the state is condoning and enabling their future crimes.

Past Successes

. Getting PSHE made compulsory in the UK

. Shaping the PSHE curriculum specifically the harm of gender stereotypes, impact on pornography and consent

. Collaboration on the Dare to Care CSE prevention policy giving child victims rights

. Presenting research on VAWG Prevention to European Parliament

. Presenting research on SEMH approach in schools to Amnesty International

. Presenting research on the impact of pornography on children and young to parliament

. Research on the sexual objectification of women and girls and it’s impact on their access to justice presented to Westminster and used to hold the CPS to account