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Thank you to all of our supporters
Thank you to all of our supporters for their support in 2023
We’d like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to all of our supporters, partners and volunteers for your ongoing commitment to our work this year.
Your continued support means we are able to be there for even more survivors of rape and sexual abuse across Surrey through our helpline, counselling and Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (ISVA) services.
Some of our key achievements in 2023 include:
- Welcoming a new CEO, expanding our ISVA team and taking on a new Fundraising Manager, Counselling Administrator and Helpline Supervisors
- Recruiting more brilliant helpline and counselling volunteers to help support survivors
- Being chosen as the 2023 Captains Charity at Burhill Golf Club, a partnership that has raised an incredible £20,000 towards our work through events such as a charity golf day and a silent auction
- Having a team of seven runners in the 2023 London Landmarks Half Marathon who not only ran the 13.1 mile course, but between them raised a fantastic £4,493
- All of our incredible supporters that took on challenges for us; there was a skydive, a 10k walk, a handbag sale, a runner in the Worthing Half Marathon, and fabulous supporter Kevin, who is currently biking his way across India!
- Hosting a visit from Edward Argar MP, Minister of State for Justice and Guildford MP Angela Richardson alongside the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey to meet our team and learn about the challenges we face
- Welcoming four new trustees to our board, as we said goodbye to three others
- Ongoing support for our Crowdfunder for young survivors aged 13-25 which has currently raised £11,885
- Being selected as one of the three local charities in the Co-op Local community fund, which helped to raise £3,166.51
- Tesco shoppers voting for us to win the top grant of £1,500 in their Stronger Starts scheme
- Engaging with students at wellbeing events at Farnham UCA and Godalming College, as well as Freshers Week at the University of Surrey
- ·Delivering 15 talks and presentations to school and college staff and students on consent and healthy relationships.
- Launching ourselves onto Instagram!
- Supporting The Survivors Trust on the #ActOnIICSA campaign, which calls for action on the recommendations from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse
- Hosting a visit from Tim Wates, the High Sheriff of Surrey, to learn more about our work as part of his focus on improving mental health services for young people
- Securing a three year grant from the Henry Smith Charitable Trust for £129,800 towards our running costs.
- Being awarded a one year grant from the Masonic Charitable Foundation for £30,000 towards our family support for young people.
And it's all thanks to you
None of this would be possible without our incredible supporters, and we are immensely grateful to all of you.
To find out other ways you can get involved in supporting our work, visit our events page to get involved with an event, or sign up to receive our twice yearly supporter newsletter which is packed full of stories, resources and exciting ways in which you can get involved.
Thank you so much for all of your support in 2023, we look forward to achieving even more together in 2024.
Meet our team of 10 runners for the LLHM on 6 April!
RASASC are very disappointed by the Church vote against independent safeguarding measures.
We’re delighted at the adoption of all 20 recommendations from the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
Thank you for all your generous donations to our 2024 Christmas Appeal
We’d like to take this opportunity to say a huge THANK YOU to all of our supporters, partners and volunteers for their ongoing support this year. Some of our key achievements in 2024 include: Delivering counselling to 934 people, supporting 1,248 ISVA clients and taking 1,094 calls on our helpline Securing a £110,000 three year grant from Children in Need for our Youth Counselling Service Speaking to over 450 secondary school pupils across Surrey in bespoke workshops and assemblies An incredible £31,000 raised through our Charity of the Year partnership with Burhill Golf Club Amazing supporter Kristen , who ran an incredible three half marathons in three consecutive days Attending Pride in Surrey , and talking to everyone there about what we do, including the Mayor of Guildford Being invited along to Freshers Week at The University of Surrey to chat with students and staff Hosting a visit by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey who donated £6,000 towards our work Attending a charity golf day held by Surrey Golfbags Charity Golf Society, which raised an incredible £16,200 Being invited to be part of the panel for the Surrey Soroptimist’s conference ‘Is Surrey Safe for Women?’ Securing grants of £10,000 from NEXT towards our counselling services, and £500 from TKMaxx and Homesense Foundation Having an amazing team of 10 runners in the London Landmarks Half Marathon – including our own CEO Daisy - who raised a fantastic £5,000 between them Our very own Fundraising Manager Helen, who took on the Brighton and Hove Triathlon in September, and raised nearly £600 Receiving a donation from the High Sheriff of Surrey of £4,000 for our Youth Counselling work Being nominated by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey for two tickets to the Christmas Carol Service at Westminster Abbey, which allowed us to treat two of our long serving staff and volunteers What an incredible year. We are always humbled and grateful for the lengths supporters go to to raise money to support our work with survivors of rape and sexual abuse across Surrey. None of this would be possible without your support, so thank you We'd like to wish all of our supporters, volunteers, staff and partners a happy and healthy new year, and we look forward to working with you more in 2025.
Our office is closed over Christmas. Here are details of support services if you need help
RASASC's X account will close on 6 December 2024
A huge thank you to all of our hardworking trustees this Trustees' Week
Our telephone helpline will be closing on Thursday, 12 December 2024
Thank you to the Golfbags Charity Golf Society, who raised an incredible £16,200 for RASASC!
We support survivors of all genders over the age of 13 from across Surrey, who have been raped, sexually abused or have had an unwanted sexual experience.