A safe, just and equal world for women

Advance is extending its successful services to women in contact with the criminal justice system outside of London, now also working in Hampshire, Kent, Thames

Last year, over 6,000 women and their children were referred to our services for support. With social distancing and government restrictions in place, as a

We believe that ‘better’ must mean better for those whose voices – marginalised for far too long – may have been silenced further by lockdown.

The additional funding has enabled us to expand this model to two more boroughs, Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea, as well as one county outside

Commenting on the Government’s passing of the Domestic Abuse Bill, which criminalises domestic abuse for the first time, Niki Scordi, Chief Executive of Advance, said:

(UN) From April to June last year, during the Covid-19 lockdown, more than a quarter of a million domestic abuse offences were recorded in England