Year at a glance

We help thousands of people every year.

This year at Stop Domestic Abuse has been no different.

Across Hampshire and Portsmouth, demand for our community, refuge and perpetrator services is growing. We supported twice as many people this year as we did during 2020–21 when access to services was affected by pandemic lockdowns.

Referrals and Support

In 2021–22 Stop Domestic Abuse received a total of 9660 referrals and worked with a total of 3744 adults and 1477 children and young people

This included:

• 350 women and 435 children and young people who stayed in one of our refuges

• 2348 adult victims/survivors and 1233 children and young people who received one-to-one support in the community

• 649 women and 35 children and young people (schools were still reluctant to do group activities mixing children from different classes) that attended one of our group programmes

• 48 adults who were supported around harmful cultural practices

• 273 people who were supported to change their abusive behaviours.

• 115 victims/survivors received additional one-to-one support to improve their mental health

• 389 victims/survivors received target hardening to improve their safety at home.

Advice Line

The number of calls to our advice line varies day to day. On average the team takes between 60 and 70 calls and answers 55 referral emails per day.

Across the UK 10,809 women and 11,890 children have been supported in refuges.

(Women’s Aid: The Domestic Abuse Report 2022)