9th-10th Oct World Homelessness Day - Home of Her Own Project

We are partnering Kairos WWT in the Home of Her Own project and will be taking part in this #SleepOut so please join in! This project highlights women’s homelessness including those at risk of homelessness due to #DomesticAbuse and/or #Exploitation. The project is funded by the Homeless Link. The night will be full of live chat that you can get involved with including staff from both Coventry Haven and Kairos.

The #HomeOfHerOwnProject #HHO is inviting you to #SleepOut in your home whether that be your hallway, bathroom, shed or another place at home, and join in with us!

Our #OnlineChat will also be available through the night via our website www.coventryhaven.co.uk

The hidden homeless include those forced to stay with friends, family, bed begging, B&Bs, hotels, sleep in cars and on the streets because it’s unsafe to be at home and is a huge problem in Coventry; a lot worse than you can imagine!

Please register below and join us virtually. October is #DomesticViolenceAwarenessMonth and the #SleepOut includes #WorldHomelessnessDay 10th Oct.

Please register below👇🏼 and comment with questions/topics you’d like to hear about.

Get involved and join us virtually on Friday 9th Oct!

https://kairoswwtfirstvirtualsleepoutandprojectlaunch.eventcreate.com/

ONLINE CHAT via Website

LIVE WEB CHAT

FROM THURSDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER 2020 our team deliver a dedicated Live ‘Chat’ session at various times from Monday - Sunday, for anyone who is worried about their relationship or for someone they know. Visit the website during the following times and you will see a Help Live Chat Box appear at the bottom right hand side of the page. By typing your question into this box you will be able to chat directly with one of our workers:

Mon - 2pm - 4pm (for professionals)

Wed - 2pm - 4pm

Thu - evening 6pm - 8pm

Fri - 10am - 12 midday

Sat - 10am - 12 midday

Sun - 6pm - 8pm

If the Live Chat Box does not appear; this may be due to your firewall security. Please email or call us instead on info@coventryhaven.co.uk or call 0800 111 4998.

For any advice or support, or to make an appointment to come in and see us, please call 0800 111 4998 between 8.30am - 5.30pm, Monday to Friday

Support and How To Stay Safe

Please see information about staying safe here; this includes British Sign Language also: https://www.womensaid.org.uk/covid-19-coronavirus-safety-and-support-resources/

#NoExcuseForAbuse

COVID19: there is #NoExcuseForAbuse | isolation rules do not apply to those suffering from abuse | see www.noexcuseforabuse.info for information and advice

#CrisisWithinACrisis OUR NEW FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN

Our #CrisisWithinACrisis Campaign

Please click the following link to donate to our crowdfunding page: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/crisiswithinacrisis---funding-for-refuge-support

We need £70,000 to keep our life saving support in place for our women and children in our 3 refuges. This is a Crisis Within A Crisis.

A small donation from you will go straight towards the crucial support needed to empower women to have a life free from fear and abuse, for them and their children. In lockdown this support is needed more than ever. Your help has never been more needed than it is now. Thank you so much for your support.

COVID-19 and Domestic Abuse - 'Frightening times for victims'

A news article highlighting the huge concerns of victims being trapped in their homes during isolation:

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coronavirus-lockdown-brings-frightening-times-17984600

For help and support, and if is is safe for you to call, our SafeToTalk Helpline is 0800 111 4998

Monday-Friday 8.30am-530pm and Saturday-Sunday 10am-1pm or email info@coventryhaven.co.uk or use the Women’s Aid online chat facility chat.womensaid.org.uk

#StaySafe #LookOutForNeighbours

SAVE OUR HAVENS - Our refuges have no funding for the life saving specialist support, past 31/03/2020

From the 31st March 2020, we are not receiving any funding for our refuge service support provision; WE NEED YOUR HELP.

To donate a one-off donation simply text SAVEOURHAVEN TO 70085, or for a regular monthly donation please text SAVEOURHAVENS to 70085

Your support will save lives of those victims including children who are subjected to abuse #ThankYou

Poem from a Survivor in Our Safe Refuge

This poem has been written by a survivor, who wanted to share her journey with everyone, and maybe it will help others to take that first step in leaving. Thank you for sharing:

“To all the Ladies who suffered these pains

We all made it to Haven, and we will never suffer again

We will build ourselves up, because enough is enough

We will hold hands together. We will try and be tough

Those awful memories I threw away, when I got on the train

I will tell everyone my story and never, ever feel ashamed 

So no more wet eyes and rolling tears, because we all made it together, and now we’re here 

Let’s close our eyes and join our hands and pray to God,  for those to understand 

Please give us peace to our souls and help bandage up our broken hearts and bruises 

Help us put behind our mental stress’s and pains

May we never, ever suffer these things all over again

Those are the girls stories            .

No one else but them could have told 

New Year is arriving

Tomorrow we’ll becoming more bold”

A new way to support us! Introducing Recycling for Good Causes!

Any old jewellery, old or foreign ban notes, laptops, game consoles, tablets, camera or equipment or stamps…?

https://www.recyclingforgoodcauses.org/services/

Recycling For Good Causes was originally founded as The Fundraising Company in 1996 and now works with over 5000 charities and good causes.

They offer a unique, simple and effective way of raising funds for non-profit organisations by recycling unwanted, donated items.

Using their experts, they are able to resell them for the best possible price, providing the maximum return for your chosen charity.

They provide a variety of recycling projects aimed to suit individual needs, depending on how you are in contact with your donors or if in fact you are an individual wishing to raise funds for a charity of your choice.  All projects are offered at no cost or outlay to the charity, cause or donor and you are free to use any or all of the projects that you feel would benefit you.

For small items, please call 02476444077 for an envelope (they’re only 7” x 5” / 18cm x 13cm) or for larger items call 08006335323 for a large bag & to arrange collection #winner

Survivor Poem - #16Days

We are very privileged to have been sent the following poem, with consent to share it with you; I’m sure you’ll agree that we can all relate to the words created:

‘I'm all choked up i just can't breathe my heart is racing please believe,

Your nasty words my head feels a mess when will it be over I try not to stress

For this is his game I am forced to play when will it all go away,

I pick myself up and try to look my best, oh no will I fail his little test!

I am no longer feeling like a waste of space, he can not make me feel ashamed of my face,

I'm starting to get stronger day by day, away from your grip is how I'm determined to stay,

I have plotted and planned for this very day I never thought it would end this way!

I am free, its coming I can see a new life is waiting for me moving so fast to a life I couldn't see!

Do I deserve it really, is this for me, my life won't change with just a cup of tea

Reaching out I won't let it pass, safe and secure and no longer sad

I want to feel good for a future I can now see, and you will never hurt me like you once had planned for me.’

#beautiful #strength #proud #youcandothis

Call 08001114998 or email referrals@coventryhaven.co.uk