WOMEN IN SAFE HOMES FUND SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT 2024/25
REFUGE
Helping women and children escape domestic abuse by providing safe homes and life-changing support.
Organisation: National domestic abuse charity
Location: London & Warwickshire
Partnership date: December 2020
Resonance fund: Women in Safe Homes Fund
About Refuge
Founded in 1971, Refuge opened the world's first safe house for women and children escaping domestic abuse in Chiswick, West London. Today, it supports more than 6,500 women and children every day through a range of specialist services, including emergency and longer-term accommodation, the National Domestic Abuse Helpline, advocacy, child support, modern slavery services, and programmes that help women recover from abuse and rebuild their lives.
Our Investment
The Women in Safe Homes fund partnered with Refuge to expand access to safe, specialist accommodation for women and children escaping domestic abuse. The partnership supports both emergency refuge accommodation and dispersed housing, enabling Refuge to offer a wider range of safe housing options alongside its specialist, trauma-informed support services.
Our Impact
The partnership has enabled Refuge to provide:
The dispersed accommodation model enables Refuge to support survivors whose needs may not be met by traditional refuge accommodation, including disabled women, larger families, women with older teenage sons, survivors with pets, and those experiencing multiple disadvantages. Located within local communities and close to essential services, these homes provide the safety, stability and independence women need to begin rebuilding their lives.
Beyond increasing the supply of safe housing, the partnership is helping to demonstrate the value of dispersed accommodation as an effective model for supporting survivors of domestic abuse, generating learning that can help shape future housing provision across the sector.
In 2025, an estimated 2.2 million women in the UK experienced domestic abuse. Through the Women in Safe Homes fund, Resonance is working with specialist partners like Refuge to expand the supply of safe, secure homes, helping more women and children escape abuse, recover from trauma and build brighter futures.
Amy Davies, Project Manager at Refuge, “It’s been an incredible journey for us, around being able to have quite a bit of say as to what those properties look like, where they’re going to be, making the Women in Safe Homes fund ideal for our project.”
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