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“Suzy Lamplugh Trust” is the UK’s pioneering personal safety charity and leading stalking authority. It was established in 1986, following the disappearance of 25-year-old Suzy Lamplugh, an estate agent who went missing when viewing a property with a client in West London and never returned. Suzy was never found, and her killer never brought to justice. She was missing and assumed murdered for seven years, before she was eventually declared dead in 1993.
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust was set up 6 months after Suzy’s disappearance by her late parents, Diana and Paul Lamplugh to ensure what happened to Suzy doesn’t happen to others. Three decades later, it is widely regarded as field experts in lone-working and personal safety training, stalking training and consultancy, campaigning and support services, ensuring their vision where “everyone can live life safe” lives on. The organisation therefore continues to work towards reducing the risk of violence and aggression by educating, campaigning and supporting people to take steps to avoid, mitigate or manage risks at work, as well as across all aspects of their lives. Our vision is a society in which people are safer and feel safer from violence and aggression, so they can live life to the full.
At Suzy Lamplugh Trust we campaign heavily to raise greater awareness of personal safety and stalking issues, demand systematic change where needed, influence public policy and promote a society in which people are safer and feel safer. Our longest running campaign has been the licensing of the operators and drivers of minicabs and private hire vehicles. It begun back in 1998, because every year hundreds of crimes, including many sexual assaults are linked to illegal and unlicensed minicab drivers. We were delighted when the government pledged to legislate on national minimum standards for taxi and private hire vehicle licensing and establish a national licensing database; recommendations that were included in our own research report launched in 2018 titled “Steering Towards Safety in Taxi and Private Hire licensing”.
The National Stalking Helpline began in 2010 to provide support, advice and advocacy to victims of stalking, helping them regain control of their lives. It is worth remembering that stalking is a crime that includes, under its overarching umbrella many other crimes, including domestic abuse, sexual violence and homicide. The service has since helped over 30,000 victims through phone and email contact. Paralleled to this and on behalf of victims who are at serious risk of harm, we regularly represent serious cases to local police forces through our advocacy work, driving prompt action when required.
Despite all successful outcomes achieved by the National Stalking Helpline, the significant number of calls that get through to the helpline only make up circa 40% of victims who try to contact us and regretfully, the remaining 60% do not get through. This is the reason why this small, yet dedicated organisation is always looking for new ways to raise funds to sustain its current service levels, whilst also trying to grow the provision to address the needs of those vulnerable and bewildered victims, whose pleas to police and health services often result in disheartenment and dejection, leaving them more susceptible and exposed in the face of their controlling and coercive perpetrators.
“Suzy Lamplugh Trust” is the UK’s pioneering personal safety charity and leading stalking authority. It was established in 1986, following the disappearance of 25-year-old Suzy Lamplugh, an estate agent who went missing when viewing a property with a client in West London and never returned. Suzy was never found, and her killer never brought to justice. She was missing and assumed murdered for seven years, before she was eventually declared dead in 1993.
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust was set up 6 months after Suzy’s disappearance by her late parents, Diana and Paul Lamplugh to ensure what happened to Suzy doesn’t happen to others. Three decades later, it is widely regarded as field experts in lone-working and personal safety training, stalking training and consultancy, campaigning and support services, ensuring their vision where “everyone can live life safe” lives on. The organisation therefore continues to work towards reducing the risk of violence and aggression by educating, campaigning and supporting people to take steps to avoid, mitigate or manage risks at work, as well as across all aspects of their lives. Our vision is a society in which people are safer and feel safer from violence and aggression, so they can live life to the full.
At Suzy Lamplugh Trust we campaign heavily to raise greater awareness of personal safety and stalking issues, demand systematic change where needed, influence public policy and promote a society in which people are safer and feel safer. Our longest running campaign has been the licensing of the operators and drivers of minicabs and private hire vehicles. It begun back in 1998, because every year hundreds of crimes, including many sexual assaults are linked to illegal and unlicensed minicab drivers. We were delighted when the government pledged to legislate on national minimum standards for taxi and private hire vehicle licensing and establish a national licensing database; recommendations that were included in our own research report launched in 2018 titled “Steering Towards Safety in Taxi and Private Hire licensing”.
The National Stalking Helpline began in 2010 to provide support, advice and advocacy to victims of stalking, helping them regain control of their lives. It is worth remembering that stalking is a crime that includes, under its overarching umbrella many other crimes, including domestic abuse, sexual violence and homicide. The service has since helped over 30,000 victims through phone and email contact. Paralleled to this and on behalf of victims who are at serious risk of harm, we regularly represent serious cases to local police forces through our advocacy work, driving prompt action when required.
Despite all successful outcomes achieved by the National Stalking Helpline, the significant number of calls that get through to the helpline only make up circa 40% of victims who try to contact us and regretfully, the remaining 60% do not get through. This is the reason why this small, yet dedicated organisation is always looking for new ways to raise funds to sustain its current service levels, whilst also trying to grow the provision to address the needs of those vulnerable and bewildered victims, whose pleas to police and health services often result in disheartenment and dejection, leaving them more susceptible and exposed in the face of their controlling and coercive perpetrators.