Santa Cause
Thanks to those who supported- we raised £2000 for support services for sexual violence survivors.
A page in Bham Living magazine.
To see photos from the event click here to go to Birmingham Living.
16 Days of Activism – Stop Violence Against Women and Girls
In the lead up to Human Rights Day on 10th December, the United Nations launched the 16 Days of Activism campaign to end violence against women and girls.
The theme this year is ‘orange the world’. Campaigners have been sharing photos, messages and videos at facebook.com/SayNO.UNiTE and twitter.com/SayNO_UNiTE using #orangetheworld.
1 in 3 women around the world have experience sexual or physical violence. We need to keep shouting, and keep campaigning to protect the rights of women and girls.
Red Cup Cheer!
RSVP has been selected as one of Starbucks’ Red Cup Cheer charities. We’re in a with a chance of receiving a £1000 donation. To make this happen, we need our lovely supporters (that’s you!) to cheer for us online using the hashtag #RedCupCheer.
From Monday 16th November til 6th December, supporters can follow RSVP on neighbourly.com and Twitter, tweeting using the twitter handle @RSVP_West_Mids along with the hashtag #RedCupCheer to help us win the vote, and up to £1,000 through a Red Cup Grant. You can also follow our page on Neighbourly sharing the link online to contribute to the social noise for RSVP.
The money raised will go towards expanding our counselling service, so that more rape and abuse survivors have quicker access to emotional support after trauma.
So, make some online noise for RSVP using the #RedCupCheer – thank you!
Fundraising success!
We’ve had some wonderful fundraising successes over the past few weeks, which will enable us to employ more counsellors and increase our helpline opening hours.
The Home Office has allocated additional funds to survivor support organisations and we’re delighted to inform you that we are one of them. We’ve been awarded funding from two funds totalling just over £155,000! We’re over the moon (and some more).
We have also received £14,056 from the Brook Trust, a private charitable trust, towards counselling costs.
As the need for RSVP’s services increases each year, so do our running costs; needing more staff and resources to support new and existing clients. Our recent fundraising success will have a really positive impact – reducing our counselling waiting list and recruiting more volunteers to give helpline support.
Our fundraising efforts don’t stop here, we still need to rent bigger premises to accommodate for the number of clients requiring our counselling and advocacy support. If you’re interested in donating, or fundraising for RSVP there are many ways you can help.
Welcome to our new website
We hope you like the look and feel of our new website.
We’ve worked hard to make the website accessible, but if you do find any accessibility issues when browsing the site, please let us know via info@rsvporg.co.uk
Coming soon, we’ll be updating our self help literature, feel free to let us know if there are issues and topics that you’d like to see covered in the self help section.