Grant to Aurora Foundation for People Abused in Childhood (360G-LondonCF-A585091)
Funding Organization
£20,000
Recipient Organization
The funding is for premises and to cover additional counselling and supervision costs up to 31 March 2021. 20 women will be supported through the grant with one to one remote counselling sessions.
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 20000 |
| Amount Awarded | 20000 |
| Award Date | 2020-12-22T00:00:00+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 Round 2 |
| Grant Programme: Title | MOJ COVID-19 Extraordinary Funding |
| Last Modified | 2021-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 5 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2021-06-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary beneficiary | Women |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1119145 |
| Recipient Org: Company Number | 05973221 |
| Recipient Org: Description | The Aurora Foundation (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 are long-term counselling and group activities geared to address the emotional and psychological problems experienced by many victims of childhood abuse. Those accessing our services are people who were sexually, physically, emotionally and/or psychologically abused as children (sometimes all four) by family members, family “friends” or sometimes by strangers. The crime of abuse put upon the child may have been disclosed at the time, but in the majority of cases the child keeps it secret due to grooming and manipulation by their abuser, fear of reprisals by the abuser, and fear of not being believed. Many victims don’t disclose what happened to them until they are adults and can no longer bear the consequences of their abuse. I have talked to victims who have kept it secret for more than 60 years. 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 our founder Susannah Faithfull) when the service was founded in 2006. Aurora also has a clinical lead providing a central supervisory supportive role to the 8 part time therapists in the counselling team, and there are also 2 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. Since we were founded in 2006 we have built up successful networks with local statutory and non-statutory agencies and have established good referral pathways for signposting potential clients to our service. |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://www.aurorafoundation.org.uk |