It is the intentional With thanks to our funders General Information Our Vision and persistent physical, With thanks to our funders, partner agencies and to all Directors Date of Incorporation IMPACT REPORT To eliminate domestic and sexual violence emotional, financial or against women and children. sexual abuse of a women the dedicated individuals, organisations and companies A Bradley (Treasurer) 11 August 1987 and her children. who supported our work against domestic violence so A O’Neill Charity Number generously during the year. P Duvant 2018 -2019 It includes NIC106099 It affects women C English rape and Auditors of all ages and What is • ASDA Dundonald G Clarke (Chair) murder. Jackson Andrews Our Mission Statement backgrounds. domestic • City Council Belfast District PCSP T Kimber • To provide specialised support services for women • Belfast City Council Women’s Network C Woolsey Bankers violence? Ulster Bank and children who experience domestic and sexual • Belfast City Hospital Transport Dept. N Gallagher violence. Solicitors • Belfast Health & Social Care Trust S Topping • To work for and with women and children to ensure It will affect 1 in Flynn & McGettrick It is a human R McAdam 4 women in their • Belfast Health & Social Care Trust – Human Resources/ their voices are heard and their needs are met. rights violation. K Douglas lifetime. Equalities Team • To challenge attitudes and beliefs that perpetuate Registered Office • Big Lottery Fund domestic and sexual violence as a form of violence 30 Adelaide Park, against women. • Boys Model School Belfast. BT9 6FY • Capita/Prudential Registered with the • Cash for Kids – Mission Christmas Charity Commission for • Celtic Football Club Northern Ireland NIC106099 Our Ethos • Christian Fellowship Church - & Strandtown Company number NI020807 Self-help and mutual support for HMRC reference number • Compassion Belfast (UT Church) women, by women, with women. XT3255 • Cooke Centenery Church • Council for the Homeless NI (CHNI)  02890 666049 • Department of Education – Pathways Fund  [email protected] Our Core Aims • Department of Justice  www.belfastwomensaid.org.uk • To provide temporary refuge for women and their • & PCSP  children suffering mental, physical, financial or sexual • Lisburn Zone Indoor bowls Belfast & Lisburn Women’s Aid abuse in the home. • NIHE – Housing Management  @WomensaidBel_Lis • To offer support and advice to any woman who asks • NIHE – Supporting People for it, whether or not she is living in a refuge and offer Donate to Belfast & Lisburn Women’s Aid • M&S Ballyhackamore Belfast www.belfastwomensaid.org.uk/support-us/donate-now Changing supportive aftercare to women leaving the refuge. • To encourage the woman to take control of her own • Parkview Special School Lisburn future, whether this involves returning home or • Red Cross via WAFNI “Women’s Aid helped me ‘face up’ for the beginning an independent life. • South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust first time in my life that I was a victim of the • To meet the needs of children and young people 16,182 of those This represents • St John’s Church Malone In 2018/19 the abuse. That abuse being more emotional affected by domestic violence. incidents, the highest level PSNI responded • Tesco Extra Newtownbreda crimes recorded since and verbal and damaging in the extreme. • To educate and inform the public, the media, the courts to 31,682 • Unison had been PSNI data records Women’s Aid made me a survivor and gave and statutory and voluntary agencies, always mindful incidents committed started in 2004/5 • Wallace High School, Lisburn Conversation of the fact that abused women are a direct result of the me a belief in myself that I never thought • Whitemountain Quarries Ltd general position of women in our society. possible.” Quote from a woman Incoming Resources 2018/19 Leadership Statement sexual harassment prevention. This collaborative partnership working Incoming ResourcesSupporting 2018/19 People - Refuge Incoming Resources 2018/19 Supporting People - Refuge In Northern Ireland we have seen progression over a number of years continues into the field of safeguarding through the Belfast Safeguarding Statement of Accounts Panel and South Eastern Safeguarding Panel that both feed into the 846 148 in terms of how society views domestic violence. Domestic violence is a £56,239 Incoming£56,239 Resources 2018/19 Supporting People - FloatingSupporting People - Floating serious crime which we know often goes unreported. We are, however, Safeguarding Board NI. Staff participate in the MARAC process and Supporting People - Refuge Income From £ % £18,571£41,803 £18,571Support Support encouraged to see more and more women coming forward to report provide support to women assessed as high risk. We continue our work £41,803 £10,273 £10,273 Supporting People - Refuge £818,385 41% Housing Management Housing Management domestic violence and seek support. This is reflected in the PSNI with the PSNI in Lisburn and the Public Protection Unit in Belfast. We 283 £56,239 £156,283 have a workers placed with the PSNI to offer an immediate response 485 £156,283 Incoming£2,395 Supporting Resources People 2018/19 - Floating statistics that have seen an increase in reporting of domestic violence Supporting People - Floating Support £481,143 24% £2,395 £18,571 Support Health & SocialSupporting Care Trusts People - Refuge and pathway into our service. This successful initiative supported 164 £41,803Incoming£10,273 Resources 2018/19 Health & Social Care Trusts since records started in 2004/5. Police responded to 31,682 incidents £201,102 women into our service. Housing Management Incoming£224,521 Resources11% 2018/19£56,239 SupportingHousing Management People - RefugeGrants Supporting People - Floating and in 16,182 of these incidents, crimes had been committed. While £156,283 £818,385 £201,102 Supporting People - Refuge £18,571 Support reporting is on the increase in Northern Ireland we remain without many During the year we saw a big increase in our online engagement. Health & Social Care Trusts £201,102 10% £2,395 £41,803 £10,273 Grants Facebook reach has increased to 231,264 compared to 26,934 last year. £56,239 £818,385 SupportingHealth & Social People Care - Floating TrustsDonationsHousing Management of the legislative protections. Women’s Aid wish to see the enacting Grants £156,283 8% £156,283 of legislation in Northern Ireland to tackle stalking, coercive control, Twitter has been more actively utilised with 409,900 tweet impressions £56,239 Incoming Resources 2018/19£18,571Supporting People - FloatingSupport£2,395 £201,102 £41,803 Donations InvestmentHealth Income & Social Care Trusts psychological and emotional abuse. We know that coercive control is an compared to 45,400 last year. For the 16 Days of Activism Against Donations £56,239 £18,5713%£10,273 SupportSupporting People - RefugeGrants £41,803 £10,273 Housing Management overarching motivator in many domestic homicides. Northern Ireland Gender Based Violence (25/11/2018 – 10/12/2018) our theme was £156,283 £201,102 £818,385 Rental Income Investment Income £41,803 2% Housing Management Grants remains the only part of the UK without this legislation. We believe that that domestic violence is everyone’s business, women and men alike – £56,239£156,283 £2,395 Supporting People - FloatingInvestment Income£818,385 £2,395 £224,521 HealthDonations & Social Care Trusts victims and survivors deserve the same protections as other citizens in ‘Behind Closed Doors No More’. In 2018, our campaign was rolled out in 164 46 Rental Income £10,273 £18,571<1% Support Utilities IncomeDonations £41,803 £10,273 Health & Social Care Trusts the UK. collaboration with the Belfast Domestic Violence Partnership and was £201,102 Housing Management Rental Income Utilities Income £18,571 1% Investment Income Training Investment Income aimed at highlighting why domestic violence is ‘everyone’s business.’ A £201,102£156,283 £481,143Grants This year Belfast & Lisburn Women’s Aid supported and housed 283 £224,521 £2,395 Grants £818,385 social media package was rolled out for each of the 16 Days which was Training Incoming Resources£2,395 2018/19<1% Utilities Income women and 153 children in the Refuge Service, 846 women were £818,385 Health & Social Care Trusts Rental Income Rental Income supported through the Floating Support Service and 148 engaged in adopted by a number of key stakeholders. A number of events were Supporting People - Refuge Donations held including our petition at Belfast City Hall and the Jackson Katz 2,010,715 100% £224,521 Donations the Gateway Early Intervention Service. 271 women accessed our One 153 £201,102 £224,521 Training Utilities Income event facilitated by Belfast DV/SV Partnership. Grants Stop Shop Service and 485 women were supported in group work £56,239 £818,385Supporting£481,143Test People - Floating InvestmentUtilities Income Income Investment Income Training programmes. Our Children and Young People’s service held 402 one In January 2019 we held our “Why Doesn’t She Just Leave?” Annual Resources Expended£41,803 £18,571 £ % Support £481,143 to one sessions in refuge, with 1688 play sessions, 184 trips, outing Conference. Women who fail to escape from abusive relationships £10,273 Donations Training Supported Housing 1,192,333 54% Housing£481,143 Management Rental Income and events. We worked directly with 280 children and young people are subjected to extraordinary prejudice. The tendency to blame the £156,283 RentalResources Income Expended 2018/19 in the community providing 981 one to one sessions and 133 children victim has strongly influenced the direction of interventions. It has led £224,521£2,395 Investment Income Outreach Support 914,323 42% Utilities Income researchers and practitioners to seek an explanation of the perpetrator’s £224,521 Health & Social Care Trusts benefitted from group work programmes. We are currently reviewing Test Utilities Income 271 Other 79,195 4% £79,195 Test £15,362 our services to enable us to be better able to meet demand. crime in the character and pathology of the woman. Comments such £201,102 Rental Income Supported Housing Grants Training The Board of Trustees commissioned an independent consultant to as “Why doesn’t she just leave?” and “Why didn’t she protect her Voluntary Income/Raising Funds 15,362 <1% £481,143 children?” are some examples of the continued attitudes which focus £224,521 £818,385 Training carry out a Governance Review in July 2018. The aim of this Governance Test £481,143 £914,323 Utilities Income on the woman and not on the behaviour of perpetrator or the crime 2,201,213 100% Donations Resources Expended 2018/19 Review was to ensure Belfast & Lisburn Women’s Aid’s governance Resources ExpendedResources 2018/19 Expended 2018/19 Outreach Support procedures and practices were sound. Governance procedures and committed. We had a range of high-profile speakers including members of the judiciary (legislative developments), The Suzie Lamplugh Trust Summary Balance Sheet Training practices should not only comply with charity and company law, but £481,143 Investment Income£79,195 £15,362 (Stalking), Make a Stand Campaign with the Domestic Abuse Housing Supported Housing should also give funders and other stakeholders the confidence that the 133 £79,195 Resources£15,362 Expended 2018/19 group is well run and meets best practice standards. A further aim of Alliance (Housing and Domestic Violence), Women’s Aid representatives At 31 March 2019 Women’s Aid held theTest Supported Housing Other (PSNI response) and Monica McWilliams (Research). Test Rental Income£914,323 a Governance Review is to contribute to the sustainability of Belfast & 402 following assets: £ Lisburn Women’s Aid by providing a benchmark of good practice and We would like to thank our dedicated and passionate staff and £224,521 £914,323£79,195 £15,362 Outreach Support Fixed Assets 3,805,478 Utilities Income Supported Housing identifying action points to improve governance and management. volunteers who underpin the ethos of the organisation in their daily 280 Voluntary The Review made 39 recommendations that the board are currently roles and who make a difference to the lives of women and children Net Current AssetTest after pension liability Resources875,145 Expended 2018/19 Income/Raising Funds Outreach£1,192,333 Support implementing, including the establishment of a Governance & Risk in our services, both directly and indirectly. Our Board of Trustees and Resources£914,323 Expended 2018/19Training 1688 £481,143 4,680,623 Other Committee. Senior Management Team provide the governance, strategic, risk and financial oversight that the organisation requires and are vital attributes £79,195 £15,362 Outreach Support Partnership working between statutory and voluntary agencies is key Supported Housing to the organisation. It is the individual and collective skillsets, experience And the following£79,195 funds: Resources£15,362 Expended£ 2018/19 to us tackling domestic violence. Our staff continue to play an active Supported Housing Other and expertise within the organisation which truly makes a difference to Voluntary role in a number of key partnerships including the Domestic Violence Unrestricted £914,323 1,431,103 Income/Raising Funds and Sexual Violence and Abuse Partnerships’ in both Belfast and South the quality and impact of our work. 184 ‘'My confidence in myself £1,192,333 500 is certainly higher than ever! £914,323£79,195 We would like to thank our funders, the Supporting People Programme DesignatedTest £15,362 1,795,967 Eastern Health and Social Care Trusts. Our team share their expertise 981 Of course i still have dips in Supported Housing OutreachOther Support - NIHE, the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, the South Eastern Health creche & child and knowledge through attendance at meetings, developing strategic my mood but i now allow Restricted 1,453,553 Outreach Support Voluntary and operational action plans, training and awareness events, seminars and Social Care Trust, the Lisburn and Belfast PCSPs, the Department care sessions myself to see that it is totally £914,323 Income/Raising Funds and conferences. Through the local partnerships we were involved in of Justice and the Department of Education Pathways Fund for their natural and okay for that to 4,680,623 were faciliated happen. To put it simply... £1,192,333 delivering a number of awareness raising events including Domestic continued support from and all those who kindly donate to us. i'm happier’' Resources Expended 2018/19 Voluntary Copies of accounts can be obtained from 30 Adelaide Park, Belfast, BT9Outreach 6FY or Supportwww.belfastwomensaid.org.ukOther Violence and Mental Health. During the year we welcomed Jackson Quote from a young person Income/Raising Funds Katz to Northern Ireland. Katz has trained thousands of educators on Gail Clarke Kelly Andrews £1,192,333Other his bystander and leadership-based approach to gender violence and Chair Chief Executive £79,195 £15,362 Supported Housing Other Voluntary £914,323 Voluntary Income/Raising Funds £1,192,333Income/Raising Funds £1,192,333 Outreach Support Voluntary Income/Raising Funds £1,192,333 Other

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