Throughout England

Children/young People

Elderly/old People

People With Disabilities

People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

Other Defined Groups

The General Public/mankind

Education/training

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Accommodation/housing

This project aims to develop increased understanding of disabled women's needs, investigate scope of existing provision and identify disabled abused women's needs, and make recommendations for policy and service development in community provision and health and social services to meet identified needs.

The National Lottery Community Fund

Disabled women & domenstic: abuse and exclusion

Towards Covid-19 emergency response costs.

Woodward Charitable Trust

The aim is to transform the lives of women and girls by a systemic change to policy, practice and commissioning that promotes early intervention and reduces the prevalence, impact and tolerance of domestic abuse. Women and children will find safety from abuse earlier and be better supported to recover and achieve independence, agencies involved will be presented with a clear approach unhampered by differences of view within the sector, and commissioners of services will adopt a tried and tested approach.

WGI Stage 2

The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls.

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Women's Aid Federation of England

Home Office

Violence against Women & Girls Helplines 18-19

Violence against Women & Girls Helplines 17-18

Domestic abuse affects an estimated 1.2 million women per year. Many women experiencing domestic abuse become isolated and feel ashamed, struggling to access the support they desperately need.The Survivors Forum is a safe online community providing peer support for women over the age of 18 affected by domestic abuse, with over 65 posts every day and over 3,000 women currently registered. It is an innovative online message board, moderated by domestic abuse experts, that provides support to women experiencing or recovering from domestic abuse.The Survivors Forum offers crucial direct support for women affected by domestic abuse. The forum topics cover multiple areas of abuse and help women who are at different stages of accessing support, whether it be the initial decision to leave the relationship, guidance on reporting to the police, or life after abuse.We believe the Survivors Forum fills a vital gap, using online technology to provide a unique network of peer-to-peer survivors; a community of reassurance and understanding where those affected by domestic abuse can follow the road to recovery.The Survivors Forum enables women to access support whenever and wherever they need it. Online support is becoming increasingly important as it enables us to reach a much wider range of women, including those with complex needs, such as disability, who may be particularly vulnerable or isolated. We have over 3,700 registered users. Not all users register, we have had over 78,000 users visit the website with almost 1 million views in the past year.

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Women Side by Side

The Home Office (HO) published a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy on 8 March 2016 setting out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybodys business, ensure victims and survivors get the support they need and inspire confidence in the Criminal Justice System to bring more perpetrators to justice as well as doing more to rehabilitate offenders.As part of the VAWG strategy, the HO currently funds six helpline to provide advice and support to female, male, and LGBT victims of domestic abuse, victims of stalking, victims of so called honour-based abuse and perpetrators of domestic abuse.

Violence against Women & Girls Helplines 2019-20

£49,000 over 12 months to build an evidence base that will enable final refinements to the design of the SIB to be made, but also as a key part of the process for formally engaging commissioners and investors.

City Bridge Trust

Grant to Women's Aid

£50,000 over 6 months towards the staffing, support and running costs associated with the development of a social investment model to address intractable domestic violence cases in London. The grant is awarded on the condition that the balance of funds required for the project are raised and that the organisation shares learning generated from the work with a wider audience.

The AIM Foundation

Grant to Women's Aid Federation

WOMEN'S AID

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."

Coronavirus Community Support Fund

This grant is intended to provide funding to organisations whose primary purpose is to improve the response to DA, either through providing support to victims who have experienced DA, or through providing support to front-line services, including other charitable organisations or the statutory sector, to better respond to victims.

WOMEN'S AID FEDERATION OF ENGLAND

To meet the Prime Ministers aim to transform the Governments approach to domestic abuse. The strategic aims are to:promote awareness to put domestic abuse at the top of everyones agenda, and raise public and professionals awarenessprotect and support to enhance the safety of victims and the support that they receivepursue and deter to provide an effective response to perpetrators from initial agency response through to conviction and management of offenders, including rehabilitationimprove performance to drive consistency and better performance in the response to domestic abuse across all local areas, agencies and sectors

The purpose of this funding is to provide additional funds for DA charities to help them cope with the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic/lockdown; to enable them to continue to meet their usual levels of demand, to keep pace with rising levels of demand during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and to remain solvent such that they can continue to provide support both during and after the pandemic. This will all help to safeguard victims of DA and provide essential emergency support to those affected by COVID-19.

towards two years' running costs of the 'Survivors' Forum', an online message board providing support to women experiencing or recovering from domestic abuse across England

The Henry Smith Charity

Grant to Women's Aid Federation of England

Through the National Domestic Violence Helpline expert Pan-London telephone, email and online support to victims of domestic and/or sexual violence and those supporting them;
• Comprehensive data on London services facilitating immediate refuge referrals;
• Collection, analysis and dissemination of data on the nature and usage of refuge and other provision and needs in London.
The project will assist London boroughs directly through a dedicated refuge referral mechanism, plus informative data for improving services and better understanding needs, including provision of a 'heat map'. 

Routes to Support (formerly known as UKROL) is an integral part of this project, and the project will work with London Councils, MOPAC (Mayor's Officer for Policing and Crime) and borough stakeholders to ensure the maximum benefit is achieved from the range of data collected through the improved data analysis tools and resources that the project will implement going forward.

The project will be committed to impactful liaison with London boroughs and promoting its services to all those who might benefit 


London Councils

Pan-London Domestic and Sexual Violence Helplines and Data Collection Project

This project will provide London-wide domestic and sexual violence helpline support  and coordinated access to refuge provision.  Through a partnership between the NDVHL, WGN and RASAC the project responded to the needs of all London callers - including men, boys and LGBT callers - experiencing domestic and/or sexual violence by providing: - confidential support and information to inform decision making; - risk assessment and safety planning; - referral to specialist services, including emergency safe accommodation; - a dedicated email referral mechanism to London refuge places for London borough officers; - online support and information.  Callers will be supported in relation to all forms of domestic and sexual violence, including sexual exploitation within a gang context.  UKROL provided comprehensive data on all London VAWG services, enabling users to instantly identify spaces in, and refer to, refuge accommodation.   Drawing on information provided by the helplines and UKROL database, and collected directly from London domestic and sexual violence services, Women's Aid provided London Councils with comprehensive data on: - the nature and availability of service provision in London; - the utilisation of refuge provision; - outcomes of referrals across London (linked to protected equalities characteristics); - gaps in service provision.

Pan-London Domestic and Sexual Violence Helplines and coordinated access to refuge provision

2020 Democracy Pioneers programme grant to Women's Aid Grant Ref AC01026

Nesta

AC01026

Women’s Aid are seeking funding to progress with the Domestic Abuse Bill (DA Bill) project which seeks to secure the best possible DA Bill for survivors. This project represents the most significant opportunity to improve the law on domestic abuse for a generation. 

The project will centre around assembling a VAWG sector wide working group and leading the sector response on the DA Bill. Through this they will secure the best possible legislation for the survivors who they support. Their request includes funding towards their Senior Public Affairs and Campaigns Officer who is vital to the project’s successes.

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales

For Women's Aid to engage in the development of the Domestic Violence & Abuse Bill

Grant to Womens Aid Federation of England

To support shared learning and strategic alliance between the work of Women’s Aid, Welsh Women’s Aid and Lankelly Chase on place-based systems change and ensure equality-, gender- and rights-based approaches are integrated into systems change work across sectors.

Lankelly Chase Foundation

Grant to Women’s Aid Federation of England

to ensure that the £3 million fund launched by the Department for Communities and Local Government can be accessed by at least 20 refuge services within the timescale set

Continuation funding for the Sustaining Specialist Services partnership

support to local charities to support bids to DCLG Refuge Fund

Towards core costs and organisational development supporting a wider understanding of coercive control; development of a needs-led model of support; and campaigning to strengthen legislation to protect survivors of domestic violence and abuse.

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Towards Core costs Towards the salary and costs of the press and publicity co-ordinator to raise awareness and improve public understanding of domestic violence.