We are proud to release our June 2025 Newsletter! 🌟 In this issue, we feature highlights from Coaction Hub’s recent Learning Event, an overview of AWRC’s specialist training services, and how you can join our upcoming taster sessions for the Harmful Practice Independent

Saturday #FILIA2025 speaker news! sarbjit ganger, Director of Asian Women's Resource Centre, with decades of experience working with Women subjected to #domesticabuse & extensive work with ‘by and for’ organisations, will be speaking at #FiLiA 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #VAWG #HarmfulPractices

‘If he didn’t care, he wouldn’t get so angry.’ ‘He just wants me all to himself.’ ‘He checks my phone because he loves me.’ We’ve heard it all. These aren’t love stories. They are red flags wrapped in romantic propaganda. And we are unlearning what we’ve been told is normal.

If you’re a professional in any service/agency responding to domestic abuse in England, Wales, Scotland, or N.Ireland - we need your expertise. Complete our brief survey to help us understand the challenges & successes in responding to economic abuse ⬇️ surveymonkey.com/r/HFJHF3C

AWRC’s statement on ten years since coercive control became a crime in England and Wales. #endingVAWG #endDomesticAbuse #supportsurvivors #londoncharity #intersectionalfeminism #trainingprofessionals #awrc

Today, on what would have been Shafilea Ahmed’s 39th birthday, we remember her and all those whose lives have been taken by so-called ‘honour’. With an estimated 12–15 killings a year in the UK, honour-based abuse remains a hidden and deeply harmful issue. At AWRC, we’re

Perpetrators often use survivors’ unstable immigration status to trap them in abusive relationships. Threatening to withdraw visa support or withhold an extension is a form of coercive control. No one should have their immigration status be used as a weapon against them. You

At AWRC, our support to survivors is rooted in trauma-informed practice. We recognise the impact trauma has on how people think, feel, and behave and we provide support that puts safety, trust, and empowerment first. With compassion and respect, we walk alongside survivors,

The new @imkaan report ‘Why Should Our Rage Be Tidy?’ shows that healing from domestic abuse is about more than services. It is about trust, connection, and culturally rooted, trauma-informed spaces. It is imperative that survivors’s needs are treated with compassion,

The government has announced six new measures to tackle so called ‘honour’-based abuse (HBA) in the UK, including introducing a statutory definition, strengthening multi-agency guidance, improving police risk assessments, and launching awareness campaigns. This represents a

Today, on International Charity Day, we celebrate the power of giving and the life-changing impact it can have.   For 45 years, AWRC has supported women and girls from Black, Minority, and Ethnic (BME) communities who are experiencing domestic abuse and harmful practices.   We

📢We’ve collaborated on a joint statement to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood MP. Coordinated by SUMW - @LAWRS, in partnership with EVAW Coalition, Hibiscus, Southall Black Sisters & 70+ orgs, it urges the govt to scrap its White Paper & end its harmful approach to immigration. (1/3)

The statement sets out how survivors of VAWG & modern slavery are already being harmed by hostile immigration policies and how the new White Paper policies will deepen this harm. Migrant women deserve safety, not hostility. (2/3)

For this reason, we urge the Government to take vital action NOW! #ScrapImmigrationWhitePaper #NoWomenLeftBehind (3/3)

AWRC statement on the racially motivated rape of a Sikh woman in Oldbury.