SAY Women

Country

Scotland

Charity number

SC016526

Status

Active

Registered

June 12, 1990

Legal form

Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Contact

Website

say-women.co.uk

Activities

'It carries out activities or services itself'

'the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

The charity is set up to provide support to young women (16-25yr olds) who are homeless (or at risk of) and survivors of sexual abuse. We provide semi supported accommodation, emotional and practical support, group activities, and connect the young women to their own chosen community for longer term support. Our accommodation unit houses up to 8 young women at any one time for a period of 18 months, to help them get used to physical safety and manage a tenancy. We also provide Training to front-line workers in the housing and homeless services to help them understand the connection between sexual abuse and homelessness and how to look at a tenancy with a gendered approach. We also delivery tenancy sustainment programmes to help groups of people manage their own tenancies and to overcome trauma responses to make you a better tenant.

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','Other defined groups'

Objectives: 2. In furtherance of its objects the Company will take reasonable steps to carry out the following activities:- (a) To provide a flexible range of services to young women who have been sexually abused and are/or at risk of homelessness. (b) To provide safe, secure and supportive medium term stay accommodation for young women who have been sexually abused and are aged between 16 and 25 at time of access. (c) To provide the information, counselling and support to help the young women to help themselves to recover, accept and enhance such young women’s life’s circumstances. (d) To act in an advocacy capacity representing the interests of sexually abused young women and liaise with all appropriate statutory and voluntary organisations. (e) To investigate the needs of such young women and develop services either by the Company itself or in partnership with others. (f) To campaign to make the real extent of men’s violence against women and girls and sexual abuse widely recognised and for suitable services to be provided. (g) To encourage statutory authorities and other agencies to recognise their objectives, legal and otherwise, towards men’s violence against women and girls and sexually abused young women and to act accordingly towards the prevention of abuse and relief of suffering. (h) To assist the work of voluntary organisations and statutory organisations engaged in the provision and improvements of any service which would be beneficial to the objects of the Company.

Geography

Main operating location

Glasgow City

Geographical spread

Operations cover all or most of Scotland

Finances

Nearby

• Glasgow Women's Aid 0.0 mi
• MND Scotland 0.0 mi
• Scottish Recovery Consortium 0.0 mi
• LGBT Youth Scotland 0.0 mi
• The Marie Trust 0.0 mi

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