Free Your Mind

16 Days of Activism – Annika’s Story

Imagine this: you’re scared of the dark and you remain scared of the dark until adulthood. Why? Because bad things happen when the lights go out. It took me a while to acknowledge and accept this, to underpin and address why I was fearful of the dark even as an adult. It led me to

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Domestic Violence In Childhood – Natasha Benjamin blogs

We’re so fortunate to have partnered with Free Your Mind, a charity working with victims of childhood domestic violence. Here, Natasha Benjamin, Founder and Managing Director of Free Your Mind, discusses her own experience with domestic violence and mental health, and why it is so importance more awareness is raised around children who grow up around family

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Free Your Mind join UK SAYS NO MORE

Free Your Mind join UK SAYS NO MORE to end domestic violence and sexual assault.        Free Your Mind is Child Domestic Violence and Mental Heath support, awareness and support service. Domestic Violence and Mental Illness is a major problem of our time; one that impacts on all aspects of a person’s life. 1

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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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