In Memory of Emily Turner
Women Friendly Leeds is deeply saddened that Emily Turner, our Women’s Lives Leeds Project Manager, sadly passed away on the 25th January 2025. Emily had cancer, but as many of you will know she dealt with this in the way we would all expect, with dignity, positivity and defiance.
Emily Turner
Many of you will know Emily, spearheading the Women’s Lives Leeds work and strategy and the fantastic Women Friendly Leeds movement and has worked in Leeds for many years in a range of roles championing women’s sector issues based in women’s sector organisations, so many of you will have worked with her and experienced her passion of which you will have memories of her from then.
Emily was such an inspiration to everyone, giving the Women Friendly Leeds Team the confidence and direction to create something that has helped hundre
ds of women feel empowered and safer in Leeds.
She was truly inspirational, inclusive and was a brilliant woman who really made a difference, leaving behind a legacy that will continue in Leeds.
So many people have so many wonderful things to say about Emily, and we are proud to have known, worked with, and loved her.
A dedicated page has been set up in Emily’s name for donations in support of the Women’s Night Safe Space Bus – a project which would not have been possible without her, to honour her wish to “Save the Bus!”. Visit the page here: In Memory of Emily Turner Save the Bus – JustGiving
Love & Solidarity
Women Friendly Leeds
