Refuge

We have raised: £581.60

About Refuge

Refuge is the country?s largest single provider of specialist accommodation and emotional and practical support to women and children escaping domestic violence - on any one day we support over 900 women and children. Refuge provides safe, emergency accommodation through a growing network of refuges and runs a 24-hour national domestic violence helpline, in partnership with Women?s Aid. Refuge offers individual and group counselling for abused women, and community based outreach services for women including specialist services for minority ethnic communities. Refuge runs award winning media and advertising campaigns to raise public awareness, whilst campaigning and lobbying for better provision for women and children experiencing domestic violence.

Legal description

(A) TO PROVIDE FOR THE RELIEF OF WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN PHYSICALLY, SEXUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY AND/OR MENTALLY ABUSED WITHIN AN INTIMATE OR "FAMILY" RELATIONSHIP THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD (B) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ISSUES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD