# The STAR Centre

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC010678
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** July 14, 1988
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC010678


## Contact

- **Address:** 40a Portland Road, Kilmarnock
- **Postcode:** KA1 2DL
- **Website:** https://www.starcentreayrshire.org/



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the promotion of equality and diversity&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The STAR Centre is a member organisation of Rape Crisis Scotland. Rape Crisis specialist services are independent, community-based services, which work from a trauma-informed, gendered analysis and empowerment perspective to provide confidential specialist services to survivors of sexual violence to reduce the harm of rape and sexual violence. Our support is available to anyone aged 13+ (women, girls, men, boys and those who identify as transgender or non-binary),of any ethnicity who has experienced any type of sexual violence at any time in their lives.

**Objectives:** The organisation’s purposes are:  4.1 To provide free and confidential counselling, support and other therapeutic interventions to female survivors of sexual violence aged 13 and onwards caused by such experiences and promote improved emotional health.  Encourage them to make better life choices and provide skills to help them determine and implement their chosen course of action.  4.2 To advance and encourage research into the prevention of sexual violence, hence relieve the suffering caused by sexual violence. Also to keep accurate data to highlight the prevalence of sexual violence and promote a change in attitudes.  4.3 To educate and raise awareness of the issues of sexual violence amongst the public, police, courts and other authorities with a view to enabling survivors to come forward and seek help dealing with these issues and encouraging them to report these crimes without fear of being judged.   4.4 To encourage survivors of sexual violence to determine their own actions and take control of their own lives after considering options available to them.  4.5 The promotion of equality and diversity by upholding and promoting the rights of women and children regardless of ethnicity, religion or cultural background who have experienced sexual violence in the belief that violence against women is symptomatic of wider structural inequalities in society and thus mainly perpetrated by men.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** East Ayrshire
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area






