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Border Women’s Aid is here to help, so please do get in touch.

Border Women’s Aid (BWA) is a GDPR compliant organisation. We are committed to safeguarding and respecting your privacy and will make every effort to hold and treat all personal data securely and sensitively.

Control or discourage your contact with friends, family, co-workers, or LGBTQ+ communities? Control your access to money and require detailed accounts of what you spend? Make unwanted advances or force you into unwanted sexual contact or

For fifty years, Women’s Aid has traditionally been associated with providing refuges for women and children fleeing domestic abuse. There are now hundreds of refuges right across the UK, including ours at Border Women’s Aid .

At the last count, Police Scotland recorded 65,251 domestic abuse incidents, of which over 80% of the victims were women. The latest Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW) estimates that 1.6 million women aged 16 to 74 years experienced domestic

What is refuge? Refuge is a calm and safe space where women can live free from fear. A welcoming, peaceful home in which you can begin to build a new life, a future free from domestic abuse.

Some supporters wish to remember their favourite charity in their will. Charitable legacies are exempt from Inheritance Tax, so by helping Border Women’s Aid, you could also reduce the amount of tax payable on your estate.

Border Women’s Aid’s vision is of a society in which women are full and equal participants and live free of the threat of domestic abuse and other forms of violence against women.

Border Women’s Aid is an independent charity which works with women, children and young people over the age of 16 who are currently experiencing or have experienced domestic abuse. We support women who are still in a relationship or have left

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