How can you help?
We need to raise £18,630 to appoint a Team Lead/Operations Manager to support our amazing staff and volunteers, and run MIN’s day-to-day operations. We are committed to appointing a Finance Lead and a Media & Marketing Team Lead to drive those areas of the charity.
These roles will contribute vitally to the development of MIN's work.
What is MIN?
https://www.mumsinneed.com/
Domestic abuse is always underpinned by intimate terrorism, the emotional and psychological elements of control that shatter lives. Violent assault is just one piece of the jigsaw that makes up the complex patterns of abuse; the tip of the iceberg. Mums In Need recognises that what goes on beneath and beyond physical violence is mainly unseen by other services, despite changes in legislation that recognise coercive control as a diverse range of control strategies.
An escalation in relentless emotional and psychological abuse is common post-separation and is often sustained through shared care with children. Many mothers are left struggling to find the understanding and resources to cope with ongoing, often invisible abuse. This can be a lonely and desperate situation that impacts work-life, other relationships, motherhood, and health, commonly causing anxiety and depression.
What is Coercive Control?
Coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or other abuse that is used to harm, punish, or frighten their victim. Coercive control can happen in any type of intimate relationship and includes behaviours such as insulting the other person, making threats, exerting financial control, and using sexual coercion.
Our charity offers a tailored service to individual women, providing them with a community of fellow survivors, experienced professionals and the support to rebuild their lives. Since humble beginnings from the laptop of our CEO in 2013, we have supported over 200 women.
We have offered a range of support, including counselling, 1:1 sessions, legal support through family court, financial advice, self-esteem and stress management workshops, yoga and well-being sessions, Peer support groups, and much-needed pamperings such as massage and beauty treatments.
Despite the growing media coverage of coercive control, cultural understanding remains inadequate. We rely on sustainable funding to continue our services and achieve our service users' development and expansion as a charity. To help us raise these funds, we are starting a Crowdfunding campaign to make sure that we can deliver these services to the best of our ability.
MIN offers a tailored service to individual women, providing them with a community of fellow survivors, experienced professionals and the support to rebuild their lives.