212 - Housing deposit for a family escaping Domestic abuse - July 2025

 Not surprisingly, we are receiving a lot of nominations at the moment and doing our very best to meet the demand, working with members to ensure we can spread our funds as far as possible.  Thank you all for continuing to send us your weekly contributions - without them we would not be able to agree to help the vast majority of the nominations we receive.  Please do tell others about us - more members would allow us to ensure we can continue to meet the rising demand.   


This week our support goes to a woman who has been experiencing awful domestic abuse in silence for many years.

She is now being supported to get out of this awful situation with her children. This is never an easy task and she has come up against some disgraceful barriers from agencies who should know better.   This has inevitably had a dreadful impact and those supporting her are now helping her look for private accommodation to allow her to move out to safety.

It is hard because her housing benefit won't cover the cost until she has a contract - but to get a contract she will need to pay a deposit and first month's rent. We have been asked for £500 which she can use towards the rental deposit.  

We hope that with our donation and the invaluable support she is now receiving, she and her children will be able to live in safety and start a new life.  

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