CRCC provides a free specialist counselling service for women and girls who have been subjected to sexual violence, no matter when that abuse occurred. Over the last five years, referrals to this service have increased by 110%. We are raising funds to enable us to meet this need and demand.
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With 71,227 rapes recorded in 2024, just 2.7% of those cases having charges brought and for those 2.7%, survivors waiting more than two years for their case to go to court, our life-changing counselling service is essential for women and girl survivors of sexual violence and abuse. More and more women and girls need our support and for longer. But right now, we are struggling to match that demand due to lack of funding. This year, we currently have a funding shortfall of over £100,000.
Additional funding will enable us to get women and girls into life-saving trauma-informed counselling. Every £750 raised provides 15 counselling sessions for a survivor of sexual violence. The feedback from women and girls who have used our counselling service is that our user-led service in a safe women-only space is crucial in helping them cope with the impacts of sexual violence and abuse.