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30th August 2022
NatWest supporting domestic and economic abuse survivors
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NatWest Group and SafeLives have reached almost 1500 domestic and economic abuse survivors through a £1m Circle Fund donation.
In 2020, NatWest donated £1m to the ‘Circle Fund’ through its partnership with charity SafeLives, which began in August 2019. Since then, the Fund has supported frontline services to provide crisis intervention, increase safety and help support recovery, after a dramatic rise in cases of abuse over lockdown.
NatWest is the first bank in the UK to offer this amount of financial support to domestic and economic abuse survivors
The fund has reached survivors from as far afield as Devon to the Shetland Islands, and from Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland to Aberystwyth in Wales.
NatWest Group has released the latest figures from ‘The Circle Fund’ in partnership with SafeLives; the UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good. The Circle Fund has given 123 services the opportunity to receive funding to distribute to survivors most in need of support.
According to the Office for National Statistics, lockdown saw a major surge in domestic abuse calls to helplines and SafeLives’ own research showed more than 90% of frontline domestic abuse services reported an increase in demand.
In 2020, NatWest Group donated £1m to SafeLives, who will continue to distribute it those in need over a three year period. Through the Fund, a wide range of services including My Sister’s Place, Money Advice Plus and Women’s Aid have so far been able to support 1494 survivors with grants and 93% of those receiving assistance have been women.
The scheme has funded survivors in three particular areas:
-Crisis and intervention: e.g., paying for hotel rooms, transfer costs to a refuge
-Establishing Safety: e.g., relocation or moving costs
-Recovering and resilience: e.g., fixtures and fittings for the home, technology to access education and support.
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