WOMEN IN SAFE HOMES FUND SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT 2024/25
CYRENIANS
Providing safe homes and person-centred support to help women experiencing homelessness and domestic abuse rebuild their lives.
Organisation: National charity
Location: Scotland
Founded: 1968
Partner Since: June 2023
Resonance Fund: Women in Safe Homes Fund
About Cyrenians
Cyrenians is a Scottish charity that tackles the causes and consequences of homelessness through prevention, crisis support and long-term recovery. Taking a person-centred, values-led approach, the organisation builds trusted relationships that help people move towards safer, healthier and more stable futures.
Alongside providing safe housing, Cyrenians delivers specialist support that empowers people to rebuild their lives, maintain tenancies and achieve greater independence.
Our partnership
Since 2023, Cyrenians has partnered with Resonance through the Women in Safe Homes fund to provide safe, long-term homes for women experiencing domestic abuse and homelessness in Edinburgh.
As the fund's first housing partner in Scotland, Cyrenians delivers homes through its Housing First approach, combining stable accommodation with personalised, trauma-informed support. Together, the partnership has provided 30 homes for women and their children, helping address the shortage of safe, specialist housing in the city.
Impact
In Scotland, domestic abuse remains one of the leading causes of women's homelessness. In 2024–25, Police Scotland recorded 64,967 incidents of domestic abuse, with 81% involving a female victim and a male suspected perpetrator. [1]
Through the provision of 30 safe homes in Edinburgh, the partnership has increased the supply of specialist housing for women at risk of homelessness, offering an alternative to mainstream homelessness services that can often be unsuitable or retraumatising.
By combining social investment with Cyrenians' Housing First model and person-centred support, more women and their children have been able to access the safety, stability and independence they need to recover from trauma and build positive futures.
Amy Hutton, Director of Services at Cyrenians, said: “We are delighted to launch this partnership with Resonance, an innovative project that we are particularly proud of, bringing social investment to an area of significant housing need. In Scotland, one in five women cite domestic abuse or abusive household dispute as a reason for homelessness, and we know from our work that many of these women end up entering mainstream homelessness systems which can be unsuitable, unsafe and retraumatising. The Women in Safe Homes fund will do as it says - offer safe homes to women when they are needed most.”
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