Since 1984 I Choose Freedom has provided refuge and a path to freedom to adult and child survivors fleeing domestic abuse.

Our communal and individual refuges across East and West Surrey provide shelter, care and advocacy for around 100 adults and 150 children each year. Survivors in our care are the highest risk, those at risk of murder if they remained in the family home.

Leaving situations of domestic abuse takes immense courage. After leaving behind everything they know, survivors arrive at refuge with little, often nothing but the clothes they are wearing and sometimes having spent time street homeless. For most survivors, refuge is a last resort. However, once here, they are safe, secure and can receive the practical and emotional support they need to recover, begin healing and be empowered to rebuild their lives.

With your help we can continue this lifesaving work. Together we can be there for adult and child survivors of domestic abuse, providing the safety and support they need to live their lives free from abuse.

Your donations make a real impact:

£6 could buy a colouring book and crayons to bring a little colour and joy to a mum and child trying to rebuild their family bonds.

£14.75 could allow us to complete an initial referral call with a survivor seeking a path to freedom, helping us support them safely to refuge.

£25 could provide essential bedding and a comforting throw for survivors arriving with nothing.

£32.50 could provide a food package so a family can make dinners and a few cups of tea during their first days in refuge.

£50 could provide a session of play therapy for a child survivor struggling to put their complex feelings into words.

£130 could provide two sessions of job interview coaching, helping a survivor find their confidence and continue rebuilding their lives beyond refuge.

£200 could provide 3 months’ resettlement support to a survivor living independently in the community after refuge.

£210 could buy a welcome pack with everything one adult survivor and two children need to make their room in refuge begin to feel like a home: bedding, towels, kitchen essentials and a toy box to begin filling with brand new donated toys.

£355 could facilitate our Freedom Programme, a six-week course providing a safe space for survivors to begin to understand and identify perpetrator tactics, share their experiences with each other and build peer support.

£600 could provide a complete course of therapy for a survivor of domestic abuse to support their healing from trauma.