ANNUAL R E P O R T 2024 Registered charity number 1196530, FBC Centre, Wokingham, RG40 4ES
As we review our work in 2024, I express deep gratitude to our team, our partners, and especially the survivors, beneficiaries, their families, and the wider communities who allow us to walk alongside them. It is a privilege to work together, understanding risk and vulnerability, identifying gaps, and delivering traumainformed care.
Trust and confidence in our services remain central to fostering sustainable, effective support.
Domestic abuse levels in England and Wales remain among the highest in recent years.
The Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s Office continues to emphasise that survivor-led support services are among the most effective yet least funded.
Legal advancements this year such as amendments to the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, including the inclusion of postseparation abuse under coercive and controlling behaviour laws are welcome but do not address all gaps.
Survivor feedback highlights ongoing challenges in service access, recognition, and tailored support, proving why our services, campaigns and long term support are essential.
Victoria Robertson BEM, Founder & Chair of Trustees.
Kaleidoscopic Uk is a charitable incorporated charity (CIO) our purpose as defined in our constitution.
Our objectives for 2024 were to further develop and expand our existing services to meet the increasing need, as well as raising as much awareness of all forms of domestic abuse
To adapt our services to meet the need and any gaps identified along the way as best that we can.
Kaleidoscopic UK is a charitable organisation of survivors, for survivors, supporting both children and adults exposed to domestic abuse in all its forms across England and Wales.
Our work is survivor-led, trauma-informed, and clientcentred, aiming both to enable recovery and to drive prevention through education, awareness raising, and systemic change
Held on 10 October at Finchampstead Baptist Church. Topics included coercive control, stalking, child-to-parent abuse, domestic abuse within the Traveller community, forced marriage/honour-based violence. Delivered by survivors and multi-agency professionals.
The convention inspired, educated and empowered delegates (individuals and service providers) with new tools and insights. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Delegates welcomed the lived experience contributions and reinforced the importance of traumainformed responses.
Education and prevention programme delivered in schools and for those working with children. Covers healthy/ unhealthy relationships, consent, signs & symptoms of abuse, trauma-informed approaches, disclosure.
Engaged both children/teenagers and educational staff. Feedback has been very positive: staff found the content both informative and actionable; participants say they felt more aware, empowered, able to recognise abuse, and feel more confident to ask for help or support others.
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Sanctuary Groups: ongoing free, independent, confidential support groups for those currently experiencing or having experienced any abuse.
Liberation From Abuse Programme: 10-week recovery course exploring emotional, physical, financial, sexual abuse, coercive control 7 breaking the cycle.
Fun With Mum: sessions for mothers and children to re-engage, play, build safe peersupport networks.
Freedom Programme: recovery for children aged 5-11 and teens aged 12-16.
Holistic Health, Wellbeing work: sound healing, somatic healing, self-care sessions.
Surviving to Thriving: trauma therapy (12 sessions per client), funded via fundraising, delivered in partnership with specialist aMAZing therapy centre.
These programmes have been instrumental in providing both immediate peer support and longer recovery pathways. Survivors report increased sense of safety, voice, knowledge of rights, and improved well-being.
The therapy programme “life changing” for many. The groups provide vital continuity where many other services have thresholds or limited duration.
Our activities have continued to strengthen and develop throughout 2024 with a huge increase in clients referrals, additional needs identified and rise in accessing our services from partner organisations and services.
We continued to adapt, evolve and update all we provide based on feedback which is essential as a survivor-led charity. Expanding our monthly sessions and areas so that children and adults also have ongoing, longer term support.
Supporting our clients as well their families and evolving to do this is something we are passionate about and strive to do so in as many ways as possible. We implemented new activities by expanding our holistic health provision delivering monthly sound healing and somatic sessions.
Our projects mentioned above continue to help and in addition we raised funds to provide Christmas food hampers for the whole family at Christmas, thanks to the support of Wokingham United Charities and Berkshire community foundation plus ongoing food banks within Sanctuary thanks to the funding from Thames Valley Police.
We also continued to help support clients in partnership with other organisations to enable presents for their children on birthdays and Christmas which can be harder financially for survivors. Huge thanks to Berkshire Christmas helper elves and the Giving tree for their continued support.
We fundraised to enable our surviving to thriving project as well as our empowerment project for adult survivors to access 12 specialist trauma therapy sessions each and the empowerment for clients to have 3 months free gym and swim membership in collaboration with Places leisure. Both we thoroughly embraced and described as ‘life saving’. Adapting to make sure we can support the individual needs in their darkest times to help them move forward.
Kaleidoscopic UK was a recipient of Household support grant awarded by Bracknell Forest Council for Essentials linked to energy and water, Sanctuary visitors could access fresh food and groceries including anything needed for specialist diets or religious needs such as halal meat/vegan/vegetarian/GF or intolerances. Provision of blankets and heaters, energy efficient cooking equipment such as slow cookers or air-fryers. Household essential items, cleaning products, sanitary and hygiene good including nappies
Christmas has always been a time of increased pressure on families and especially victim-survivors of abuse. We wanted to continue our Christmas family food hampers which we did successfully for 94 families, the hampers included all the nice goodies for Christmas and beyond to keep people fed over the festive period when accessing help is harder to do.
Christmas can also be a traumatic time for many survivors and with the help of Wokingham Town Council we were able to take 30 of our clients on a day trip to a Christmas market and cathedral, something many had always wanted to do but never able to. The day was full of magic from start to finish with the most incredible feedback that happy memories had been created and hope knowing that others care.
Christmas of 2024 was also full of festive fun due to hosting our first ever Winter Wonderland Ball with the help of our patron Anouska Lancaster, the evening was sold out and exceeded in fundraising our 10k target to enable the surviving to thriving project.
Awareness
Raising awareness of all areas of abuse, it’s impacts, gaps and reality is part of our constitution. To do this in 2024 we held many social media campaigns as well as in person or virtual events for people to take part in as individuals or organisations.
We created campaigns and in person events as well as delivering many trainings, education and our prevention programme to thousands of teens in schools. All proved hugely successful . We held our second post separation abuse awareness week #psaaw which was a huge success with some of our resources going viral and changed into different languages. Due to this we were invited to deliver training to other services/organisations on this topic including Wales and also taking part in podcasts.
Our sexual assault awareness month, teen dating violence awareness month campaigns as well as our annual Domestic Abuse prevention convention to mark domestic violence awareness month took place. 16 days of activism/white ribbon vigils expanded to new areas and venues as well as taking part in many other events to represent Kaleidoscopic Uk survivor voices were a great way of also raising awareness and combining outreach and support.
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We offer our sincerest thanks to:
All survivors we are able and honoured to support along their journey for their trust, courage, and their insight, without whom nothing would be possible.
Our volunteers, all who deliver support with humility, compassion, and professionalism.
Our partners, collaborators, schools, legal services, healthcare and statutory bodies who enable us to extend impact.
Funders, donors, and community supporters who sustain our work amid financial pressures.
In 2024, Kaleidoscopic UK continued to deliver highimpact survivor-led support, education, prevention, and advocacy despite ongoing systemic, financial, and resource challenges. We remain committed to centering survivors’ voices, pursuing innovation, and advancing change toward a society where domestic abuse is understood, prevented, and never defines a person’s future.
Jane Ainslie Prudence Bray MBE Laura Harris Victoria Robertson BEM Priya Dawkins