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. 

By kindly sponsoring me today you are stepping up to support women and their children experiencing domestic abuse this International Women's Day.

How your donations helps:

- £10 could pay for a mobile phone top up for a woman who is unable to use her use old phone due to it being tracked

- £15 could give a woman arriving at a refuge the essentials she needs for her first night

- £30 could buy new clothes for a child who arrives a refuge with nothing except the clothes on their back

- £52 could provide a woman and her children a safe night's stay in a refuge