Send a message of hope this Mother’s Day Ahead of Mother’s Day on 15th March, we’ve been collecting messages of hope so that every mum experiencing abuse knows there is a community standing beside her, every step of the way. Will you send a message of hope today? You don’t have to say much – […]
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Women’s Aid partners on Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir A Hymn to Life – A Message of Hope for Domestic Abuse Survivors “No hardship is insurmountable. I want people to take away a message of hope” – Gisèle Pelicot We’re incredibly honoured to be partnering with Vintage on the publication of Gisèle Pelicot’s new memoir, A Hymn to Life: Shame Has
Nineteen More Child Homicides Nineteen More Child Homicides is the third report published by Women’s Aid in the past three decades as part of Women’s Aid Child First campaign. This report tells the stories of children who have been killed by a parent who is a perpetrator of domestic abuse through child contact (formally or
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The barriers making survivors’ journeys to safety more difficult and dangerous A Safe blog 17th June 2025: Through dedicated support and advocacy, Women’s Aid’s No Woman Turned Away Project (NWTA) supports women and their children fleeing domestic abuse who face barriers when trying to access a safe place to stay. Our Nowhere to Turn 2025
Nowhere to Turn 2025 Nowhere to Turn 2025 builds on our evidence base on the structural inequalities that many survivors face when seeking safety from domestic abuse. This report explores survivors’ difficult and dangerous journeys and the role of the No Woman Turned Away (NWTA) project in supporting survivors to navigate barriers to accessing refuge
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Women’s Aid update: Live Chat opening hours We provide lifesaving services to women and children experiencing abuse. But we have been forced to temporarily reduce the hours of our Live Chat Service because of an incredibly difficult funding climate which means we do not have the funds to keep it open as much. From the
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Women’s Aid updates proposed funding settlement In light of the welcome commitment from the Labour government to halve VAWG in a decade, there is renewed urgency to ensure that women’s services are sustainably funded to support all survivors. In our report Investing to Save, we set out a minimum annual funding settlement for specialist domestic abuse services
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The Family Justice Response to Domestic Abuse A new report The Family Justice Response to Domestic Abuse adds to a rapidly increasing evidence base of what is now confirmed to be deep-rooted, systematic problems in the family justice response to domestic abuse in England and Wales. This new publication reveals that many of these problems
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Women’s Aid seeking to commission an independent researcher for membership project Following on from the publishing of our single sex services statement, Women’s Aid is commencing work to improve our understanding, the experiences and practices of our member services who define themselves as trans inclusive. To do this we’ll be commissioning an independent researcher, preferably
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The Domestic Abuse Report 2024: The Annual Audit The Domestic Abuse Report 2024: The Annual Audit, situated in the context of our 50-year anniversary as a federation, looks at the provision and uptake of domestic abuse services in England. The report demonstrates how specialist domestic abuse services are working at, or even over, capacity more
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