Chamber Charity of the Year - Black Country Women's Aid
For 40 years, Black Country Women’s Aid (BCWA) has been supporting victims and survivors of domestic abuse and other interpersonal violence to escape from violence, recover from trauma and start again.
At Black Country Women’s Aid (BCWA), they listen, support and care.
Grace and Freddie’s Story
BCWA helps women, men, and children from across our region, people like Grace and Freddie*:
Freddie is 11 and has lived with domestic violence his entire life. His mother Grace has been abused by more than one partner, including Freddie’s father.
Freddie has always worried about his mum. His anxiety around leaving her to go to school meant that he found it difficult to focus in lessons and make friends.
BCWA helped Freddie to open up about his feelings and manage his worries. With Grace, he attended a support group where mothers and children can talk about their experiences with other families. This helped them to process their trauma together and rebuild their relationship.
Grace feels that BCWA’s support has helped her family to heal. Freddie now understands that what happened to him and his mum was not okay. He has moved on to secondary school where he has made lots of new friends and has formed positive relationships with his teachers.
*Names have been changed
Give a gift so that BCWA can help more people like Freddie and Grace.
Transforming lives, together
In the UK, more than two-thirds (69%) of the public believe that businesses have an obligation to support the local communities in which they operate.
Source: YouGov poll carried out by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) in December 2022
BCWA designs and delivers meaningful collaborations with companies of all sizes. They can help you to hit your CSR and ESG targets, and evidence social value.
They offer motivational, hands-on volunteering opportunities like decorating new refuge flats or Christmas gift wrapping. Your staff can also volunteer their business knowledge to support their own professional development and help BCWA to survive and thrive.
Additionally, BCWA provides engaging content for corporate events, including ‘lunch and learn’ sessions and keynote speakers for conferences and all-staff meetings.
Click the button below to find out about corporate volunteering and partnerships.
How BCWA can help your business
75% of women that experience domestic abuse are targeted at work – from harassing phone calls and abusive partners arriving at the office unannounced, to physical assaults
Source: Equality and Human Rights Commission
BCWA provides professional, informative and effective training on a range of HR-related and other workplace topics in ways that suit your business needs, from talks, to our dedicated eLearning platform and/or hybrid training delivery. Topics include:
- Domestic abuse awareness and support
- Stalking awareness and support
- How to create a trauma informed working environment
- Modern-day slavery: recognising the signs and understanding what to do
- Wellbeing and self-care in the workplace
They explain why an issue matters and how you can make a difference on a practical level. BCWA gives examples and stories, expert perspectives, surprising facts, and offers the skills and tools you need, such as how to respond as a manager or colleague to a disclosure, and how you can help survivors feel safer at work. This is all underpinned by BCWA’s work with survivors, who help them to develop training offers to ensure it meets their needs.
Click the button below to find out more about training and compliance.
Please email development@blackcountrywomensaid.co.uk if you have a query or would like to work with us.
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