39 - Support for victims & survivors of Domestic Abuse - Rehouse to Rehome - February 2021

For our latest donation we are sending £500 to Francine at Rehouse to Rehome, a Sheffield based charity supporting and empowering victims and survivors of Domestic Abuse. Our £500 will go towards buying a cooker/fridge/ washing machine for a family that Francine is helping to rehome. 

Francine tells us that she has seen a significant rise in requests for help since the beginning of the pandemic. Our donation has been very gratefully received and Francine has kindly sent us this powerful message explaining why:

Not having essential household goods often becomes a real and practical barrier that prevents a survivor from leaving an abusive relationship.

Even when individuals gather up the immense courage it takes to flee an abusive relationship and, if they are lucky enough to be re-housed by the authorities, there is a strong possibility that they will not get the financial support required to furnish that property with even the most basic of household goods which are a necessity in order to have a functioning home.

The prospect of an empty property with no furniture, washing machine, or even a cooker to prepare food, leaves those in abusive relationships and households trapped in their situations due to being reluctant to leave for a property which is bereft of any household amenities. Often, the person fleeing an abusive situation is not alone but has responsibility for children within the household who must be removed from that situation for their own safety. This creates a predicament where leaving the abusive relationship means going into a property where it is impossible for the day to day household functions to be carried out and hence being unable to provide an adequate dwelling for themselves or their children.

The same quandary also leads to survivors who have left their homes staying in refuges for extended periods rather than moving into their own properties. We can see that, due to a lack of financial capital or support to buy household goods, how survivors of domestic abuse are being forced back into their previous situations.

Your help and kind donation of £500 helps us at Rehouse to Rehome provide essential household goods to survivors of domestic abuse who would otherwise be trapped in a damaging and dangerous cycle of abuse.

Sincerely thank you to all of you at 500 together for helping us to help others. 

Warmest Regards 

Francine (Rehouse to Rehome) 

Do have a look at the work Francine is doing via her Facebook page 

Rehouse to Rehome

 or website https://www.rehousetorehome.org - she is clearly making a huge difference to a lot of very brave survivors and we really are pleased to have been asked to support this charity.