Grant to Aurora Foundation for People Abused in Childhood (360G-LondonCF-A566462)
Funding Organization
£7,600
Recipient Organization
Additional costs due to COVID-19 lockdown until end of October 2020 as outlined in your application budget.
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 7600 |
| Amount Awarded | 7600 |
| Award Date | 2020-07-17T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | E09000021 |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | LONB |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Kingston upon Thames |
| Grant Programme: Code | MOJ COVID-19 2020 |
| Grant Programme: Title | MOJ COVID-19 Extraordinary Funding |
| Last Modified | 2020-08-10T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary beneficiary | Victims of crime/violence/abuse |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1119145 |
| Recipient Org: Company Number | 05973221 |
| Recipient Org: Description | The Aurora Foundation for People Abused in Childhood (Aurora) is a trauma recovery centre and therapeutic community that aims to improve the mental wellbeing of adult women and men who have suffered abuse in childhood. The activities we provide to achieve our aims are long‐term counselling and group activities geared to address the emotional and psychological problems experienced by many victims of childhood abuse. We work actively with clients, creating a ‘partnership recovery model’ where alongside their therapy clients learn new coping skills to help them return to a fuller life. Our current capacity is for up to 30 clients seen in a single confidential location (a private terraced house in Kingston Vale) in Kingston Borough, which is very near to the Wandsworth border. Subsequently, there is easy access for Aurora clients who live in either Wandsworth or Merton. Aurora’s approach is unique as we use a "therapeutic community" style of service delivery developed by Aurora’s founder (Susannah Faithfull) based on her thirty years of professional experience as a counselling psychologist and personal experience as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. The approach is a combination of individual personal therapy and group activities provided in a confidential and protected setting where clients can feel safe and secure. It is the combination of the therapies and the environment that help clients with the many emotional and psychological problems they experience as a result of their abuse, and also offset social isolation and build confidence. To try and capture the “essence” of Aurora, one client has said: “I believe what was fundamental to my healing at Aurora was the compassion, love and understanding I experienced from all its staff and volunteers and from the place itself. What also supported my healing at Aurora was the very non-clinical setting. I experienced at Aurora a very comfortable, homely, safe and cosy environment with still the appropriate boundaries in place; it was just the right balance which created a safe and welcoming platform where I had the opportunity to just be myself and work on my healing.” Aurora is managed by our CEO (Nick Gauntlett) who helped to develop the charity (along with Susannah Faithfull) when the service was founded in 2006. Aurora also has a clinical lead providing a central supervisory supportive role to the 7 part time therapists in the counselling team, and there are also 3 other supervisors providing monthly individual/group supervision to the therapy team. The team meets quarterly to discuss the running of Aurora and service development issues, and we have a Board of Trustees that meets quarterly to approve key decisions and the accounts. Aurora is also a “user-led” organisation founded by a survivor, and with a therapy team and Trustees consisting of many people who have experienced childhood abuse. There is also a heavy emphasis on “user participation” via the Aurora Client Advisory Group (ACAG) which meets bi-monthly and consists of clients and management personnel to discuss ways to improve the service. |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://www.aurorafoundation.org.uk |