About
Rae’s mission is to increase and embed access to the arts in supported and empowering spaces where all women can flourish, where confidence grows, and the foundations of new futures are built, free from gender-based abuse.
We want to drive social change by mobilising the arts as a communication and engagement tool. We aim to foster understanding and deepen awareness of gender-based issues.
At its heart, Rae is about care and change, finding ways for art to play its vital role in the movement for an equal and fair society.
How Rae started
Rae started life as Feminists Work For Change (2017-2023), a West Midlands based voluntary collective united by concerns around gender discrimination and its impact on the lives of women, inclusive of trans and non-binary folk. FWFC worked with other organisations and people doing good work in the region to make a positive difference through activism, awareness raising, fundraising and artistic engagement.
Sarah Taylor Silverwood, 2018
Rae’s founder and creative director, Katy Sadler, was co-founder of FWFC. Motivated by the collective power of collaborative working to address gender-based abuse, and the transformative work with women by fellow artists in the country, she set up Rae.
Rae is dedicated to Katy’s late mum, Janet Rae Irving. She worked for Well Women Centre Leigh, supporting women in her own community with kindness, empathy, compassion and understanding.
