Beloved was founded ten years ago to provide support for women working in the indoor sex industry who experience disadvantage and generally do not access mainstream services. It works across Bristol and works closely with other charities and agencies to coordinate support. The charity offers casework support and assists the women with a broad range of complex and interconnecting issues. Beloved provides an emotional and practical response to the needs of the women and helps them to move forward into happier, healthier and more positive lives.

At the February 2023 meeting, Allen Lane Trustees agreed a grant of £10,000 split equally over a two-year period to Beloved. The grant will support general running costs. Anticipated outcomes over the period include that the women supported will have reduced isolation and loneliness, improved access to learning and education and better access to alternative employment, volunteering and vocational training.

www.beloved.org.uk

Alumah is a community-led organisation that helps support people affected by domestic abuse. It works across Suffolk from its base in the market town of Brandon. The organisation’s vision is to educate and raise awareness of abuse; to provide support and space for people to talk; and to empower and enable people affected by abuse to be able to break free and live better lives. The team at Alumah are people with lived experience of abuse, and are trained as Suffolk Domestic Abuse Champions. More than 210 people benefit from support each year.

At the trustee meeting in June 2002, the Foundation’s trustees are supporting Alumah through a grant of £6,000. The funding will help contribute towards running costs of the service. This includes online and face-to-face work, one-to-one support as well as groups and running the Freedom Programme. Benefits for people supported include they will be able to move forward in their lives with more understanding and more confidence and that they feel they have worth and are valuable.

www.alumah.co.uk

The Maggie Oliver Foundation works to support adults who had been victims of child sexual abuse. Named after its founder, a former detective who exposed the Rochdale grooming scandal after she resigned from the police force over ten years ago, the Foundation is based in Manchester but has a national reach. It provides support in a range of services including a listening ear phoneline, advocacy for survivors through any legal process they wish to take, and through trauma-focussed group therapy. One-to-one support is provided throughout the engagement and the charity works with survivors of child sexual abuse across the UK. It also works to advocate for better services and improved support structures to be available to survivors of child sexual abuse.

The Allen Lane Foundation agreed a grant totalling £7,800 at the October 2021 Trustee meeting. This funding is to fund core costs including phoneline costs, website and IT support including for the charity’s database and systems that enable it to work more effectively. Overall, the outcomes of the Foundation’s work are that more survivors are heard, supported and guided on their recovery journey; that there are positive changes in policy and practice by statutory authorities to improve support to survivors; and that there is increased accountability for those with responsibility for survivors of child sexual abuse.

www.themaggieoliverfoundation.com

This charity was established to support women who are isolated or at risk in and around the Bournemouth area.  The majority of the women it helps have been affected by trauma and suffer multiple disadvantages often encountering homelessness as part of their journey.

Safe and Sound Dorset offers a trusted and secure support system, including a safe place to come for help.  It also runs therapeutic creative sessions, wellbeing projects, access to practical help such as food vouchers, laundry facilities and a shower. Its main focus is on providing holistic, confidential one-to-one support, helping women access services and opportunities to benefit their health and encourage positive lifestyles.

Safe and Sound has received a grant totalling £7,488 in the spring of 2021.  The grant will fund an administrator to assist with the general running of the charity, including helping coordinate weekly outreach services, helping to organise volunteers to collect and deliver food boxes and care packages for isolated and at risk women, and support the manager with administrative duties. Overall, the charity aims that as a result of its support, service users are enabled to make better decisions and lifestyle changes – that they are engaged in less risky lifestyles and that they will have improved wellbeing.

www.safeandsounddorset.org

 

 

Parental Education Growth Support (PEGS) is a relatively new organisation that works from Shrewsbury. It aims to provide therapeutic, practical and emotional support, and run effective programmes and training that raise awareness and understanding about child to parent abuse. PEGS offers one-to-one emotional and practical support to parents, carers and guardians who are living with children who display abusive, violent, or out-of-control behaviours. It runs an online weekly drop-in, and training for professionals on child to parent abuse. The organisation has completed facilitator programme training for the ‘Who’s in Charge’ programme and so far has delivered four courses that have been well received.

At the Foundation’s October 2020 meeting, Trustees confirmed a grant offer of £5,000. This will contribute towards the general running costs of PEGS. The organisation has supported more than 200 families this year, and anticipates numbers to increase quickly as the effects of the lockdown and COVID restrictions are played out.

www.pegsupport.com