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A Safe Space to Rebuild and Rise Again

If you’ve experienced domestic abuse, you deserve support that helps you feel safe, heard, and stronger. Aanchal’s Standing Strong Programme can be a powerful first step toward rebuilding confidence and healing. Click the button to read the news article and see how this programme could help you move forward.

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Aanchal Women's Aid

Changing Lives

A safe place where people find hope, so they can believe and say, ‘I matter.’ We provide practical support and services, helping people who face challenging life situations.

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Our services

HELPLINE

UK’s longest-running helpline, uninterrupted since 1995

IMMIGRATION SUPPORT

Support for non-British citizens here on visas with no recourse to public funds

ADVICE & ADVOCACY

Advice on financial, legal, housing, immigration and welfare rights

PROGRAMMES

Tailored learning sessions focused on mindfulness, skill building and resilience.

Children and young people services

We also provide a unique and holistic service designed to support children and young people who may otherwise not have opportunity to disclose how they feel or what their needs are.

Our Funders

We are grateful to our funders, whose support makes our work possible. click the link below to find out which organisations stand with us.

Carolyn's story

Hear Carolyn's story. She describes how the abuse at home became worse when she had children and the journey she took with Aanchal to keep herself and her children safe.

How 27-Year-old Gurpreet fled a forced marriage

I still remember that feeling of butterflies in my stomach and my heart beating really fast.

There was no knowing what her family would have done if they had any indication she was trying to leave. A survivor of forced marriage with an incredible story to tell inspiring women to have the willpower to leave... […]

I was the perfect wife. Why did this have to happen to me?