WOMEN IN SAFE HOMES FUND SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT 2024/25
SHEFFIELD WOMEN’S AID
Providing safe, trauma-informed accommodation and support for women and children escaping domestic abuse.
Organisation: Specialist domestic abuse charity
Location: Sheffield
Founded: 1974
Partner Since: February 2023
Resonance Fund: Women in Safe Homes Fund
About Sheffield Women’s Aid
Sheffield Women’s Aid is a small specialist domestic abuse charity, established in 1974 and solely based in Sheffield, but housing women and children from anywhere in the UK who need a place of safety. The charity provides safe accommodation and support for women and children who have experienced domestic and sexual abuse, alongside delivering trauma-informed services to help survivors recover and rebuild their lives.
Alongside emergency accommodation, Sheffield Women’s Aid provides holistic, person-centred support including practical advocacy, welfare advice, support with immigration status and access to safe child contact arrangements, as well as therapeutic group and one-to-one support.
Our partnership
Since 2023, Sheffield Women’s Aid has partnered with Resonance through the Women in Safe Homes Fund to expand the availability of safe, specialist housing for women and children in Sheffield.
The partnership supports the charity’s move into dispersed accommodation, adding individual family homes to its existing refuge provision. Through the fund, 10 properties have been acquired, enabling more women and children to access safe, self-contained homes alongside specialist support.
Impact
The Women in Safe Homes Fund has enabled Sheffield Women’s Aid to significantly expand its accommodation offer in response to high levels of local and national demand for safe housing.
Since the age of 16, it is estimated that 72,258 women in Sheffield (29.6%) have experienced domestic abuse. [1]
Through the provision of 10 safe homes in Sheffield, more women and children are able to access secure accommodation where recovery can begin. By combining safe housing with specialist, trauma-informed support, Sheffield Women’s Aid is helping survivors rebuild stability, regain independence and move forward with their lives free from abuse.
“We partnered with the Women in Safe Homes fund as not only did we hear really positive experiences from other providers at a conference, we valued the gender focused lens of their work. As a feminist organisation, this was important to SWA to ensure all properties would be specifically for women (and their children) as we see daily the need and demand for accommodation. We found all the team patient when assisting SWA to work through queries we had as a small charity and guiding us through the accreditation process, to ultimately be accepted as a partner. Being able to increase our accommodation units to provide more safe and secure homes for domestic abuse survivors was the main reason for partnering with the fund – to enable us to reach more survivors than we do currently and within that both save and change lives.” Hollie Venn, Chief Executive, Sheffield Women’s Aid
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