THE HALO PROJECT 

£25,000 has been awarded to Halo Project to explore income generation through its specialist training offer.

Towards cost of living crisis

This project will celebrate the Jubilee by bringing women and girls together from diverse backgrounds to share ideas and host a diverse celebration. It will share food culture and music to promote ....more

This project will celebrate the Jubilee by bringing women and girls together from diverse backgrounds to share ideas and host a diverse celebration. It will share food culture and music to promote stronger communities and have small scale arts and therapy also. Taster sessions will provide a safe environment for them to talk about their worries and concerns thereby reducing depression and low self-esteem.

This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant and organisations then award hardship grants to individual ....more

This initiative seeks to shift grant making power directly to local women’s organisations and services. Smallwood provides a block grant and organisations then award hardship grants to individual women 18+ integrated with their specialist support services.

Towards BME women recruitment

We have identified two key areas of our VAWG BME Victim service delivery model we wish to improve by building upon our digital infrastructure foundations, they include 1. Improvements to our online ....more

We have identified two key areas of our VAWG BME Victim service delivery model we wish to improve by building upon our digital infrastructure foundations, they include 1. Improvements to our online Case Management System by digitalising GDPR agreements, victim individual support plans and all risk assessments, to replace paper copies being manually completed , scanned and uploaded. Both desk top and app versions. 2. Creation of a digitalised impact measurement tool to be used to track and capture distance travelled by our victims from crisis to independent living. Both desk top and app versions Both improvements will save vital front line case worker time that is spent on administration allowing more time to be focussed upon victim support and recovery. To improve performance and identify needs, trends and to provide a breadth of victim data has always been challenging. In doing so, this has meant we have been unable to demonstrate the real needs of victims, highlight prevalence and thereby being limited to what we can ask for in terms of funding to a range of commissioners. It is also challenging when we are "fire fighting" and unable to provide adequate resource and time to invest in our CRM system. This funding will provide us with a platform which can extrapolate a range of evidence and data and highlight the importance of soft and hard outcomes to commissioners and policy makers.

£47,125 has been awarded to Tees Valley Inclusion Project to provide additional capacity for a support tutor/facilitator who is also trained as a case worker to support victims of iIllegal cultural ....more

£47,125 has been awarded to Tees Valley Inclusion Project to provide additional capacity for a support tutor/facilitator who is also trained as a case worker to support victims of iIllegal cultural harms, including honour based violence, forced marriage and female genital mutilation.

Core costs - salary.

NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more

NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.

Grant to Halo Project Charity to support the organisation through COVID19

Towards improving a victim support service.

Support for Female Victims of Domestic Violence from Minority Communities

We plan to recruit, train and build the skills of a minimum of 15 BME women in a year who will join Halo Community Angels as volunteers. The impact upon their lives will include: Improvement in their ....more

We plan to recruit, train and build the skills of a minimum of 15 BME women in a year who will join Halo Community Angels as volunteers. The impact upon their lives will include: Improvement in their health and well being by being part of a supported team Improvement in their confidence and purpose Improved social integration and reduced isolation They will join a successful award winning charity and be part of a social network of other volunteer Angels with a shared goals to help and support other BME women. Ultimately it will empower them and build their skills to move them closer to the labour market

To support student hubs within the university.

To establish, develop and launch the first BME women and girls volunteering support network called Halo Community Angels.

The group will provide a single point of access for people from the BME community experiencing domestic and sexual violence and, or at risk of, honour based violence, forced marriage and female ....more

The group will provide a single point of access for people from the BME community experiencing domestic and sexual violence and, or at risk of, honour based violence, forced marriage and female genital mutilation, to access support. The aim of the project is to tackle some of the causes of illegal cultural practices at the root before they escalate to crisis level.

We wish to take women and their children who live in our safe house in Stockton on trips and outings and buy them basic life necessities.

To deliver community training to socially isolated BME women.

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Towards ‘Circle of Friends’ meetings in the Middlesbrough area.

This new project aims to create a social integration programme for victims of forced marriage and honour based violence who have already received emergency support and refuge in the area. Victims of ....more

This new project aims to create a social integration programme for victims of forced marriage and honour based violence who have already received emergency support and refuge in the area. Victims of this abuse have often fled and left not only the perpetrator behind but also their families making them susceptible to isolation.