What We Offer
Accommodation and Follow-up Services
Emergency refuge accommodation for 28 families
Specialist support for children in the accommodation service
Volunteer counselling service in the refuge
Crisis Intervention Service
A single point of referral which ensure clients tell their story only once. Our specialist advisors offer information as well as emotional support. Access to health, housing and legal advice and further support from other parts of the service.
IDVA (Independent Domestic Violence Advisor) Service offers specialist court support.
Fresh Start
A programme of integrated individual sessions designed to change the behaviour of those who use domestic abuse, whilst providing support to the partners and ex partners of the participants on the programme.
Our Supporters
Latest Posts
If you've been listening to the news today, you'll have seen that a new report's been published on violence against women and girls.
The report was commissioned following the murder of Sarah Everard, and concludes that the police must do more to protect women and girls.
We agree that VAWG needs to be a priority for the police, but if women and girls are to be truly protected, we need to look beyond a police response. Only 27% of those who commit domestic homicide had previously come into contact with the police, so by relying on policing alone we're not doing enough.
We need a whole systems approach that includes culture change, systems change and robust services ranging from early responses right up to safe and effective interventions for serial and high risk offenders.
#repost @respect_uk 🙏🏾🙏🏻
#domesticabuse
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58591225
Almost half (45.6%) of women in refuges say they have experienced depression or had suicidal thoughts due to #DomesticAbuse — @womens_aid On Track database, 2021.
We can't keep seeing statistics like this. Survivors #DeserveToBeHeard.
@womens_aid CEO Farah Nazeer, shares more about our urgent mental health campaign as we call for government to listen and respond to the needs of women and their children 👇
https://www.womensaid.org.uk/all-survivors-deserve-to-be-heard/
📣 Can you help us?🙏🏽
We are really in need of some help at the minute for supermarket vouchers for families fleeing abuse as we have now run out. 🙏🏻
These families have escaped their homes and some are now in temporary accommodation including hotels.
We would love any donations of supermarket vouchers🙏🏾❤️
If anyone is able to help, please send us a message! #community #vouchers #miltonkeynes #supermarket
If you are suffering from domestic abuse and you need help, call MK Act on 03443754307 (Monday to Friday).- Calls are low cost and in confidence. If you need help outside these hours call the National Helpline on 08082000247.
#youarenotalone #domesticabuse #mkactcharity
Some of the #mkact team are down at Pride today, we have some of our leaflets in the community tent and also details about our new LGBTQ+ development worker post we are currently advertising. #loveislove #pridemk #pride🌈
Our CEO Sue Burke is speaking at @miltonkeynescouncil Cabinet meeting with two of our wonderful volunteers talking about how agencies in MK work together responding to Domestic Abuse. We know that a multi-agency response saves lives. #domesticabuse #workingtogether #miltonkeynes
Our Chief Exec, Sue Burke, would like to say the biggest thank you to the team at @wihlondon for embarking on a sponsored walk to raise transportation funds to pay for victims of #domesticabuse to leave their abusive relationships and get to safety.
#thankyou #whoishussain #community #fundraising #mkactcharity
Congratulations to Lorraine and Emma from the MK Act Team who were nominated for a Violet Award for the work they did over the CV19 Pandemic. Well done and Thank You!!
#thankyou #violetawards #soroptimistinternational @mk_soroptimist 🙏🏽❤️
Would you like to donate supermarket vouchers for families fleeing abuse? 🙏🏽❤️
We would love your help! To find out more please send us a DM 🙏🏽❤️ #domesticabuse #vouchers
If you are suffering from domestic abuse and you need help, call MK Act on 03443754307 (Monday to Friday).- Calls are low cost and in confidence. If you need help outside these hours call the National Helpline on 08082000247.
#youarenotalone #domesticabuse #mkactcharity
Did you know you can talk to us online from 10-2pm if talking over the phone isn’t safe for you? #onlinechat
If you are suffering from domestic abuse and you need help, call MK Act on 03443754307 (Monday to Friday).- Calls are low cost and in confidence. If you need help outside these hours call the National Helpline on 08082000247.
#youarenotalone #domesticabuse #mkactcharity
Visit @safelives_ to take the survey 🙏🏼❤️
20% of children in the UK have lived with an adult perpetrating domestic violence.
-NSPCC (2011) Child abuse and neglect in the UK today; Research into the prevalence of child maltreatment in the United Kingdom-
62% of children in households where domestic violence is happening are also directly harmed.
-SafeLives (2015) Getting it right the first time-
An estimated 39,000 babies under one year of age live with domestic violence in the UK.
-NSPCC (2011) Estimates of the number of infants (under the age of one year) living with substance misusing parents.-
Between 2005 and 2015, 19 children in 12 families were killed by violent fathers who had been allowed to see them through formal and informal child contact arrangements.
-Women’s Aid (2016) 19 Child Homicides-
Whether you are a victim of domestic abuse, are worried about someone who you think may be a victim, or are worried because your behaviour can be abusive, there is still time to change and help is available for everyone.
#reachout #mkactcharity #domesticabuse
Things can be hard but please remember #youarenotalone #helpishere #mkactcharity #reachout
If you are suffering from domestic abuse and you need help, call MK Act on 03443754307 (Monday to Friday).- Calls are low cost and in confidence. If you need help outside these hours call the National Helpline on 08082000247.
#youarenotalone #domesticabuse #mkactcharity #respect
Thank you to everyone who has donated to our #lastresortfund this month 🙏🏼 It makes a huge difference to the families we support ❤️
@localgiving 🙏🏾
#community #thankyou
#noexcuseforabuse #mkact #youarenotalone
#makeyourselfheard #55 #domesticabuse
Huge thank you to @namjixscape for inviting us to the opening of your new restaurant in @xscapemk and for donating all the proceeds from tonight to help families who are suffering from domestic abuse. ❤️🙏🏼#thankyou #lastresortfund #lovelyfood #community #lovemiltonkeynes #mkact #music
#youarenotalone #reachout #domesticabuse