Norfolk

Regional Support

Norfolk

NIDA

“Our aim is to listen to you, to guide and be by your side. You only have to tell us your story once. Our service will support you, your needs, your journey – your freedom.”

NIDA can…

  • Provide strength-based personalized support/safety plans.
  • Offer support from an IDVA working with high and medium-risk clients.
  • Help with recovery support including group work and programs, support for children, and support in accessing community networks.
  • Offer sanctuary support for a rapid response to home security, offered to those who are assessed to need this.
  • Provide dedicated Development and Recovery Facilitators, who will support survivors and their children, enabling them to form support networks and move on with increased confidence and well-being.

Operating Hours:

Weekdays: 9am – 6:30pm and Weekends: 9am – 3pm.

Leeway

An independent charity providing support to adults, young people, and children who are experiencing domestic abuse in Norfolk and Suffolk.

Leeway can…

  • Offer free, confidential, and non-judgemental support for adults (16+) of all genders, and their children, to help them recover and build a new life free from abuse.
  • Leeway operates eight safe houses and people experiencing domestic abuse and their children are welcome to stay.
  • In partnership with NIDAS who operate nine safe houses (refuges) in various locations across Norfolk and where possible the organisation will work to find overnight accommodation for survivors that same day.

Operating Hours:

Monday: 10:00am – 12:00 midday, Tuesday: 14:00pm – 16:00pm, Wednesday: 10:00am – 12:00 midday, Thursday: 14:00pm – 16:00pm, Friday: 10:00am – 12:00 midday.

Daisy Programme

(in partnership with NIDA): a registered charity supporting adults living with or who have been affected by Domestic Abuse in the Breckland area.

Daisy can…

  • Offer the Freedom Programme which is designed to help survivors, make sense of and piece together what has happened to them.
  • The course is about educating survivors on the behaviours of perpetrators and the signs to look out for when entering a new relationship and is carried out over 10 weeks in a group setting.
  • Offer the Recovery Toolkit which helps clients to re-evaluate for themselves how they might move forward with their lives and so make better-informed choices about their future, the programme runs for 12 weeks and each session last 2 hours.
  • Group work: Daisy offers various support groups and classes enabling clients to receive continued connection and understanding with peer support.

Pandora Project

A West Norfolk-based domestic abuse charity, passionate about making a difference.

Pandora can…

  • Offer a dedicated and specialist team offering advice, support, and information to women and children affected by domestic abuse.
  • The Pandora Project can offer support and awareness raising, helping women to understand what domestic abuse really is and how it’s affected them.
  • Open the Box programme: a 10-week recovery programme helping women to understand the abuse they have suffered and recover from the trauma.
  • Provide safe accommodation: provide support in safe and secure accommodation for people fleeing domestic abuse and offer intensive specialist support to residents and support for their children, helping them to recover from trauma and move forward with their lives.

Leeway:

  • Services: Domestic abuse can affect children and young people in several ways. The most common effects include anxiety, withdrawal, depression, and aggressive behaviour. Through one-to-one support and group work, their Children and Young People service helps them to come to terms with their experiences and develop the skills needed to communicate effectively and build positive relationships

The Rowan Project:

  • Services: They offer specialist counselling support for adults and young people (boys and girls) aged 16 years and over who have been victims of sexual abuse/violence/rape and/or current/historic child sexual abuse living in Breckland, Norfolk.
  • Their services are free to clients, and they offer up to 18 sessions of therapy with a fully qualified, registered therapist contact.

Pandora Project:

  • Services: The organization offers support to 5–18-year-olds affected by domestic abuse, which can be current or historic. This includes witnessing abuse from parents or being abused by a partner. Young people may be in abusive relationships themselves and may need support to understand that power and control within a relationship is unhealthy.