About Us
Our vision and goals
Our vision is of a society where women and girls can live their lives free from violence and the threat of violence.
To achieve this we have four campaign goals:
1. To ensure that national, regional and local governments in the UK take all steps necessary to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls including:
• developing integrated and strategic approaches to violence against women that are compliant with international and national obligations
• make prevention a core policy priority and invest in primary prevention
• ensuring that every woman and girl across the nations and regions of the UK has access to the support services that will end the violence and support them in rebuilding their lives
2. To enable individuals and organisations to become part of a movement to eliminate violence against women and girls including:
• Increasing the capacity of civil society to support victims and challenge perpetrators
• Changing the cultural acceptance of violence against women
3. For violence against women to be understood as a cause and consequence of women’s inequality and a violation of human rights
4. Sharing knowledge, skills and information across the Nations and Regions of the UK
Our Board of Directors
Emma Bell
Aisha Gill
Scarlet Harris
Professor Liz Kelly (Co-Chair)
Marai Larasi (Co-Chair)
Nesta Lloyd-Jones
Liz Mckean
Nicki Norman
Hannana Siddiqui
Janet Veitch
Fundraising Adviser to the Board - Victoria Samuel
Our Staff
Holly Dustin (Director)
Sarah Green (Campaigns Manager)
Holly Shepherd (Prevention Coordinator)
Thank you to our generous funders
Amnesty International UK (host)
Comic Relief (Prevention project)
Equality and Human Rights Commission (Map of Needs project)
Trust for London (London campaigns project)