Domestic abuse affects us all. It impacts the safety, wellbeing, health and prosperity of everyone. By breaking the silence we build awareness and strive to create a world without domestic abuse.
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he problem we face is that due to stigma and fear people don’t like to speak up and talk about domestic abuse. People remain silent as they do not want to be involved, yet statistically 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men experience domestic abuse in their lifetime. This means that someone you love, socialise with, or work with is a victim or a survivor. Awareness Raising awareness about the impact of domestic abuse is an integral part of what we do at Stop Domestic Abuse. We seek to break the silence by talking in the media, online, in our communities and with politicians and other influencers. Over the past year, Stop Domestic Abuse and the work we do has been featured numerous times in newspaper articles and profiled on various radio shows. In October 2019, The News, Portsmouth, ran a front page story on Stop Domestic Abuse’s provision of refuges. In the same month, BBC South’s evening programme South Today interviewed a past client, an IDVA worker and our CEO Claire Lambon. The following month the same programme featured an interview with one of our Ask Me
ambassadors as part of a campaign by Thames Valley Police to target coercive control. Express FM conducted interviews with Claire and a service manager regarding domestic abuse. One was aired on the evening show for an hour. The News, Portsmouth, published an article in November featuring
Stop Domestic Abuse and the work we have done raising awareness for White Ribbon Day, a global movement working to end male violence against women and girls. Over Christmas, The News featured Stop Domestic Abuse again. It published articles regarding ambassador training, Christmas donations, and Stop Domestic Abuse’s involvement in the Comfort and Joy Campaign. The Hayling Herald likewise published an article featuring Christmas donations.
Clockwise from above: Claire Lambon being filmed for BBC South Today, Claire Lambon and Czarina Jacobs with Express FM presenter Miles Henson, Alan Mak MP for Havant visiting our offices. STOP DOMESTIC ABUSE
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