Grant to SafeNet Domestic Abuse Service (360G-CFLM-A787506)
Funding Organisation
£5,000
Recipient Organisation
To fund therapy services across Lancashire for survivors of domestic abuse.
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Grant Details
| Award Date | 2026-03-16T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Last Modified | 2026-04-15T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2027-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 11 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary issue | Domestic violence |
| Amount Awarded | 5000 |
| Grant Programme: Code | Round 1 25 - 26 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Lancashire Womens Fund |
| Impact Category | Advance people's physical and mental health, wellbeing and safety |
| Amount Applied For | 5000 |
| Primary age group | Adults (26 – 65) |
| Primary ethnicity | other white |
| Primary beneficiary | women |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Burnley 003D |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | E01024877 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | LSOA |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://www.safenet.org.uk |
| Recipient Org: Description | Safenet Vision: A future where everyone can live safe, happy & healthy lives free from abuse, violence & exploitation in their homes, streets and communities. Our Mission: Survivors come from all walks of life, and so do we. Our lived experience enhances our empathy and compassion, which is crucial to our values and beliefs, our knowledge, and the quality of our support services. We raise awareness of domestic abuse, and we work collaboratively to deliver specialist domestic abuse support services so that women, men, trans/nonbinary and child survivors can live increasingly positive, safer, healthier lives, leading to safer communities and neighbourhoods for every one of us. We support victims and survivors every day, using inclusive, ethical, trauma-informed approaches to prevent domestic abuse/further harm and support recovery from the trauma of abuse. Our Services Safenet (est.1976) is a Domestic Abuse (DA) charity delivering support to victims and survivors across the Northwest of England. We provide emergency accommodation for survivors and their families fleeing abuse and step-down temporary accommodation for those survivors who are ready for the next stage in their recovery journey and require less intensive support. Alongside this we have services throughout Lancashire for DA clients in the heart of communities who require support while remaining in their own homes. We have increased accessibility to our services by setting up an Online Chat platform which can be accessed 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Safenet has kept over 20,000 women, men and children safe from further harm over the last 50 years, and we can be supporting 600 adults and 150 children throughout our services at any one time. Since 2019 Safenet has been the lead provider for Lancashire County Council to deliver short-term emergency accommodation for survivors of domestic abuse. In 2024 we were successful in retaining this contract potentially for the following 8 years, which now includes community outreach services. We work with delivery partners across Lancashire to ensure that survivors accessing our services receive high quality support which meets their individual needs. We support clients with all areas of need connected to their recovery journeys, including specialist DA group work and safety priorities, but also with physical and mental health needs, housing and resettlement, financial, budgeting and debt, parenting support, legal issues, immigration and social networks. Preventative and Early Intervention work Across Lancashire, together with our delivery partners, we deliver Healthy Relationships programmes to schools. This is an area that we see as a priority for prevention work. Another focus in our awareness raising and prevention work is delivering external training. Our dedicated Training team are experienced in writing bespoke domestic abuse training and delivering to a wide range of agencies. Service Development Safenet prioritises service development in response to need and have regularly adapted services and created new projects to manage these changing needs. Complex Needs – Having identified increasing numbers of women being referred to refuge with additional needs (mental health, substance misuse, offending), Safenet opened Jane’s Place in Burnley in 2017 – our first purpose-built complex needs refuge with 15 dedicated spaces and specialist support for women. Due to the huge oversubscription of these units, Safenet continues to identify further units of accommodation throughout our other services to dedicate to survivors of DA with complex needs, including 5 spaces for women in our Lancaster refuge. Women at risk of suicide – in 2023 we secured funding to develop our Suicide Prevention Toolkit following increasing levels of survivors in services experiencing suicidal ideation and self-harming. The toolkit provides information, resources and techniques for staff to confidently manage these high-risk situations. Neurodiversity – having identified significant numbers of neurodiverse survivors in services, in 2025 we provided all staff with training from a specialist external organisation – Neurodiversity Global – plus “Train the Trainer” knowledge, ensuring sustainability for future Safenet staff. Women only spaces While all genders experience domestic abuse, our experience has found that the vast majority of the survivors we support are still women – in 2024/25 92% of clients were women. This is reflected in our units of accommodation where 92% of bed spaces are assigned as women-only. We only recruit female staff in our women-only spaces. Holistic Support While we are primarily focussed on supporting clients through their recovery journeys, we prioritise a holistic approach and make a thorough assessment of individual need for all accessing our services. We then build a bespoke support plan, including referrals to external specialists where appropriate. |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1091544 |