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I’ve chosen £1100+ to represent and honour the 11 women I personally know who’ve experienced domestic, sexual or gender based abuse, and the no doubt more behind closed doors. And that’s not to mention children also, who saw and heard and were therefore victimised themselves. Thank you so much for your kind sponsorship - it means the world. P.S. I promise training videos of my beetroot face wondering why I agreed to re-live school Sports Day hell. (“Long distance” short for slow and sheer bloody mindedness.)
One in four women will experience domestic abuse at some point in their lifetime and on average one woman is killed every 5 days in England and Wales by a current or former partner.
Refuge is the largest single provider of specialist services to survivors of domestic, sexual and gender-based abuse and runs the freephone, 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline that provides the first step to women escaping abuse.