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Check out the most recent posts from the UK SAYS NO MORE blog, featuring the latest news, opinion pieces and partnership announcements.

Review: ‘A Lie of the Mind’ at Southwark Playhouse

Exploring the values of the family unit after a violent and broken marriage, Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind makes a striking and powerful return to stage. Director James Hillier takes the audience into the 1980’s American mid-west as Beth (Alexandra Dowling) returns to her family in secluded Montana to recover from a violent attack

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UK SAYS NO MORE Week 2017: Event Ideas for Organisations

UK SAYS NO MORE Week 2017: Event Ideas for Organisations

Joining UK SAYS NO MORE Week as an organisation UK SAYS NO MORE Week is a time for us to take action to end domestic violence and sexual assault under the theme of #TogetherWeCan. In the run up to the week, we have received numerous enquiries from organisations looking to get involved and host an event or

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Woman’s Trust 2017 workshops for women affected by abuse

Woman's Trust 2017 workshops for women affected by abuse

UK SAYS NO MORE partner Woman’s Trust launch new set of self-development workshops Woman’s Trust are a specialist agency who provide free, women-only, client-led services to women affected by domestic violence in locations across East and West London. From April to June 2017, they are offering a new set of self-development workshops taking place in

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Merton Council Join UK SAYS NO MORE print ad campaign

Content via Merton Council Zoe Gallen, strategic lead for domestic violence and abuse, has been chosen to appear alongside comedian Eddie Izzard as one of the ‘faces’ of a campaign to end domestic violence and sexual assault. Zoe will be appearing on posters online and around the borough to help promote UK SAYS NO MORE. This

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L&D Training Partner With UK SAYS NO MORE

We are so pleased to announce that L&D Training have joined UK SAYS NO MORE as a campaign partner. Find out more about their services to help employers deal with sensitive issues such as sexual assault and harassment: L&D Training offers a range of services that help employers deal with sensitive issues including sexual abuse/assault,

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Cardiff Women’s Aid Bring NO MORE Campaign to Wales

Wednesday 29th March 2017, London and Wales We’re so pleased to announce that Cardiff Women’s Aid, in partnership with UK SAYS NO MORE and Hestia, have launched Wales-focused awareness initiative CYMRU SAYS NO MORE.  The CYMRU SAYS NO MORE campaign launched with a photo call for Wales’ assembly members outside the National Assembly For Wales,

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Being a Man in a Man’s World: By Anthony Wills

Being a Man in a Man's World: By Anthony Wills

Reposted with permission from Anthony Wills, former CEO of Standing Together Against Domestic Violence. After many years working to deliver effective domestic violence partnerships, it is only relatively recently that I have come to the gender equality issue. This is very late but perhaps not too late? My views are that men should take more responsibility

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NatWest marks ‘No More Week’ by opening Safe Spaces for economic and domestic abuse victims

6 March 2024 NatWest Group is announcing that starting this week it will offer Safe Spaces to people experiencing economic and domestic abuse in over 360 branches across the UK including NatWest, Ulster Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland branches.  Safe Spaces, part of Hestia’s UK Says No More campaign, are designated locations which anyone ...

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Nationwide – the UK’s biggest branch network – joins Hestia’s Safe Spaces

Nationwide – the largest branch network of any UK banking brand -– will offer Hestia’s Safe Spaces scheme to people experiencing domestic abuse across more than 400 branches across the UK. A recent poll by Nationwide shows almost half (48%) the population have experienced, or know someone who has experienced domestic abuse, with almost one ...

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Hestia and UK Says No More respond to national domestic abuse ‘flee fund’

The Home Office has announced that from 31 January 2024, victims of domestic abuse who do not have the financial means to leave their abusers will be able to apply for a one-off payment of up to £500 for essential items to help them and their children flee to safety. For the first time, victims ...

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