Domestic abuse support services
If you or someone you know is currently experiencing or has experienced abuse from a partner, ex-partner or family member in Oxfordshire or West Berkshire, you can speak to us.
If someone needs help now, call the police:
999
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Domestic abuse helpline (Oxfordshire and West Berkshire):
0800 731 0055
10am - 7pm, weekdays
National Domestic Violence Helpline
0808 200 0247
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
How can we help you?
Through our confidential services, you can receive advice and guidance, be empowered to make choices about your life, rebuild your confidence and self-esteem as well as receive practical support to make the changes you want
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Practical advice and support, face-to-face or via our helpline
- Support in understanding and assessing your options
- Guiding you to other support services that can help you
- Advice on how to leave your home, if you want to
- Translators if English isn’t your first language
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A safe place to stay if you flee
- A refuge for women (with or without children) fleeing abuse
- A team of professionals to support you to access services that will help you to rebuild your life
- Practical day-to-day guidance to help you live independently including safety planning, moving home and accessing benefits
- Support to access counselling and therapy, if needed
- Support to access groups to develop understanding of domestic abuse and its impact
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Emotional support
- Support to connect you with counselling, therapy or group work
- Support groups to develop understanding of domestic abuse and its impact
- A team of professionals to support you to access services that will help you to rebuild your life
- Practical day-to-day support to enable you to live independently such as access to benefits, support with moving to a new home, emotional support and safety planning
- Specialist help if you have more complex needs or you're from a Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic or Refugee background
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Support for children and young people
- Dedicated support for those in refuge as well as guidance to access other helpful services
- Liaison with other services to ensure a coordinated approach to tackling domestic abuse in the community
- Education to help you better understand health relationships and tackle domestic abuse at the source
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Training and advice for organisations
- Training in supporting those experiencing domestic abuse
- Training for professionals such as police, social services and mental health teams on domestic abuse, awareness and pathways
Can I use your services?
If you live in Oxfordshire or West Berkshire and you are being abused, you can call us and use our services.
- We can provide advice regardless of what your status in the UK is
- Our service is open to everyone regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, race, sexual orientation, disability
- We can only work with people aged 16+
- We can provide accommodation for people needing to flee, as long as they have recourse to public funds
- It doesn’t matter how you are related to the person abusing you, or if you’re still in a relationship with them or not
- It makes no difference what type of abuse you are or have experienced
We support people who have or are experiencing physical, emotional, psychological, sexual or economic abuse, including honour-based abuse, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, stalking and harassment and coercive control.
We work in partnership with:
- Oxfordshire County Council
- Buckinghamshire County Council
- West Berkshire County Council
- Reducing the Risk
Our service is also affiliated to Women's Aid.
You can make a referral to our service using our referral form.