Si Recruitment are taking on the Middlesbrough 10k on 31st August and they need your support! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Frances Bainbridge, Emily Watson, Izzy Loach, Annabel Mills, and Lauren Brady are running to raise vital funds for My Sisters Place, a Middlesbrough-based charity providing crucial support to individuals affected by domestic abuse.

Every step they take will help make a difference and every donation, big or small, will go directly towards helping this amazing organisation continue its life-changing work.

💜 Please sponsor the team and help us support My Sisters Place– together, we can help build safer futures.

Thank you for your support!

Did you know:

* 1 in 4 women experience domestic abuse (DA) during their lifetime.

* A domestic abuse related call is made to the police every 30 seconds.

* 1 in 5 teenage girls have experienced domestic abuse in a relationship.

* DA often begins or escalates in pregnancy.

* 1 in 3 pregnant women experience DA.

* 62% of children living with DA are directly harmed by the perpetrator.

* Women are twice as likely to die at the hands of their partner than from smoke or gas inhalation!

* Women are 3 times more likely to be killed by a partner than by not wearing a seatbelt!

* Between April 2019 and March 2022, on average, at least one woman a week was killed by a male partner/ex-partner

It can happen to anyone, at any time in their life, regardless of age, marital status, sexuality or economic background.

No person deserves to be abused and everyone should feel safe in their own home.

My Sisters Place provide Life-saving support to those affected.