Works4Women (360G-WomensFundScotland-FR-0050582)
Funding Organization
£10,000
Recipient Organization
to contribute towards delivering a programme of employability support.
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 10000 |
| Amount Awarded | 10000 |
| Award Date | 2019-12-16T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | S01008862 |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | DZ |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | City of Edinburgh |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Stockbridge - 06 |
| Data Source | https://www.womensfundscotland.org/ |
| Grant Programme: Code | 190201 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Women's Fund For Scotland |
| Last Modified | 2023-03-17T12:54:27Z |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 11 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2021-01-29T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2020-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | SC028301 |
| Recipient Org: Company Number | SC237521 |
| Recipient Org: Description | Edinburgh Women's Aid provides free, confidential, non-judgemental support and information to women and children affected by domestic abuse. We offer both practical and emotional support and information around safety, welfare rights, legal issues and housing, helping women to assess their options. Support we provide includes: free counselling and recovery programmes for women and children; one to one support in person or on the phone; crisis/refuge accommodation; court advocacy for women and children; group/peer support sessions; and employability support. We work in partnership with other organisations, providing a multi-agency approach. Our overall aim is to work towards a society free from domestic abuse. The COVID19 pandemic has considerably increased the need for our services. This increased need is expected to extend beyond the lockdown with an additional surge in demand expected at the point at which lockdown restrictions begin to be lifted - when women are in a better position to flee from the perpetrator. It is still early days and difficult to draw conclusions but as a result of the current crisis, we are finding an increase in the numbers of women seeking support and also an increase in the range and level of support that women need. It has been widely reported that women in general are baring the brunt of the impact of this crisis as many have frontline worker jobs and/ or work in service industries, they are also more likely to be on zero hours or temporary contracts and so are more likely to have lost their jobs. Women also tend to play a greater role in caring for children and other family members and this restricts their ability to continue to work. Although none of our services are now office based, we are continuing to run the following services remotely: our helpline; our 29 refuge spaces; 1:1 support for women and children; our court advocacy services for women and children; art therapy; counselling; our CEDAR therapeutic programme for women and children; and our employability programme. The challenges faced by the women we support ordinarily have been exacerbated by this crisis. We are finding that: women are losing their jobs; women are needing to stay home to look after children; women are becoming ill from being on the frontline; women are not entitled to much of the income support available to people in better paid jobs. We are also finding that the women we support who already have poor mental health and /or feel isolated are disproportionately affected. Some of the women we support are afraid to go out, many have higher levels of anxiety than usual and many who are already vulnerable are feeling even more isolated and vulnerable. For women still living with a perpetrator, domestic abuse can increase. For example, coercive control involves the micromanagement of women?s and children?s lives with rules which, if broken are punished with violence or the believable threat of violence. The level at which someone can be micromanaged, if they are in the vicinity of the abuser 24/7 is increased, and the likelihood of a perceived infraction of the rules is also going to be increased. Many women speak to us of walking on egg-shells, of the rules shifting and changing all the time so that they don?t know what they are going to do wrong, only that it will be ?wrong?, far too many women tell us that they thought the perpetrator would kill them. Living in close proximity to that abuse under lockdown is terrifying. There is currently a lot of discussion about the potential for PTSD as a result of the lockdown in general. The mental health impact of having been locked in with an abuser for weeks or months is likely to be huge and we need to have the resources and services in place to deal with this. We know that leaving the perpetrator is the most dangerous time for women ? most women murdered by partners or ex-partners are killed when they are trying to leave. We are anticipating a surge in demand for our services as restrictions begin to lift. This is also the time when women and children can be at their most vulnerable to extreme forms of abuse. We need to be ready to provide increased levels of support as lockdown measures are reduced. |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | https://www.edinwomensaid.co.uk |