At Safe Horizons, we understand that you might not be ready to talk to somebody just yet.
Our support app, My Support Space (MSS), is a secure, free, online hub of information, guided resources, and techniques to enhance feelings of inclusion, and promote overall safety and wellbeing. You will find sections on different experiences and impacts of domestic abuse.
You can access an interactive questionnaire, to help you spot the signs of abuse in your own relationship, and much more. It’s easy to register and you can complete the interactive guides at your own pace.
Our Independent Domestic Violence Advocates (IDVAs) are trained to support anyone experiencing domestic abuse, they work with you to provide support, information, and advice that is individually tailored to you and your circumstances.
Together with you, and being led by you, we will work to understand how domestic abuse has affected the different areas of your life and offer you advice and support so that you are safer and can move forwards.
If you need us to, we will advocate on your behalf, supporting you to express your views and your rights, ensuring that your voice is heard. We can advocate with many organisations including: the police, court officials, housing, social services etc.
We can also help you to access specialist services specific to your religion, ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality, disability, mental health or age.
Our IDVAs support both people of all gender identities (16 years old and over) who are affected by domestic abuse. Our IDVAs can offer support in many languages, if you need advice in a language that we don’t speak, our IDVAs have access to interpreters or can use a telephone translation service to help you.
Your IDVA will work with you on a safety and support plan that fits your individual circumstances and the risks you are facing. The safety planning process is designed to help reduce any risks of harm.
There’s a lot of information available about domestic abuse and we know that can be overwhelming. We will be your guide to the information you need and help you make sense of it.
Support
We can help with:
- Assessing risk
- Working with you to create a plan to increase your safety
- Supporting you with working with others such as social services or the police
- Advocating for you in spaces such as in meetings or appointments
- Signposting you to other organisations who can support with mental health, debt, housing etc.
- Protecting you from tech/online facilitated abuse and harm
- Helping you understand your rights
- Discussing options for supporting children
Safe Horizons partners
Safe Horizons London Partnership is a collaboration of 13 organisations, we are:
Agal is dedicated to dismantling the stigma associated with seeking assistance for domestic violence within London’s South Asian community. We are free and confidential.
Providing free, confidential services in all of the South Asian languages, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Sinhalese, Punjabi, Urdu as well as English, through telephone, online and face-face channels.
We are the only community based, lived experience lead organisation working exclusively with Latin American communities in the field of sexual and reproductive health and HIV in the UK.
Aymara aims to rebuild the trust of the Latin American community in domestic abuse services in both Spanish or Portuguese, by aligning to the principles of universal health coverage to ensure free, high quality and equitable access for all. We work to break the cycle of violence and abuse in our community, as a mechanism for improving overall health and wellbeing.
We provide safe refuge, support and advice for women fleeing domestic abuse.
We're here to empower women and to show them that there's every mechanism in place with our experienced, knowledgeable team to guide them, be by their side and walk through every step of their journey.
We are a social justice charity and we're dedicated to empowering and supporting survivors. Providing independent domestic violence/abuse advice (IDVA) services to victims/survivors, helping to mitigate risks and empower the people we work with.
We offer advocacy, advice and support to vulnerable Central and Eastern Europeans people who have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse.
We can offer advice about immigration matters, help you understand your rights around housing and welfare benefits, and practical information about living in London. We support citizens of the EU: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and non-EU: Ukraine, Belarus, Russia.
We are the UK’s LGBT+ anti-abuse charity. Galop provides advocacy and casework support for LGBT+ people who have experienced domestic abuse, and other forms of abuse including honour-based violence, forced marriage, and so-called conversion therapies.
We are the national gender based violence support service for black femmes. We define black femmes as black women, black girls, black trans women, and black nonbinary people who feel safe in feminine spaces.
We provide support around all forms of gender based violence, including but not limited to domestic abuse, sexual abuse, forced marriage, harmful practices and so on.
As a specialist grassroots ‘by and for’ service, we provide support and advice to South Asian women who have been or are at risk of being disowned due to abuse or persecution, this is often a result of a forced marriage, honour based abuse, economic abuse linked to dowry, domestic abuse and other forms of harmful practices.
We offer free impartial, confidential and culturally sensitive support, advice and information on key life skills and information on a range of issues including health, housing, employment, education, financial, and legal.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Our advice and support services offer one-to-one, personalised help with housing issues and homelessness.
'We stand for women, we stand together'.
Solace is a domestic abuse charity. We've got staff members picking up phone calls through our advice line. We've got staff members supporting women to get into refuges safely.
We are an organization that was set up by and for disabled people to provide advocacy regarding hate crime, domestic abuse, and other forms of crime. We understand the barriers that you experience as a disabled person and we can help to break down some of those barriers.
We facilitate access to domestic abuse support services for Romani (Gypsy), Roma and Irish Traveller people.
We provide trauma informed specialist help to support survivors of domestic abuse to cope and move on to the point where they feel safe and they are back on track with their lives.
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Self support
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Complete interactive guides, access coping techniques and track your progress.
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There are three ways you can contact us directly.
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