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70+ organisations warn: specialist sexual violence services face closure

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Rape Crisis England and Wales, The Survivors Trust, MS'IN an alliance preventing males survivors from missing out we are Survivors

Each year in England and Wales half a million children are sexually abused and 900,000 people experience rape and sexual assault – yet the specialist services supporting survivors are facing closure.

Three of the UK’s leading sexual violence charities are warning the Home Secretary that without urgent, sustainable funding, tens of thousands of survivors will be left with nowhere to turn. 

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Greater Manchester Mayor launches latest stage of campaign to tackle gender-based violence with hard-hitting film

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a girl sat on a sat with her face turned towards the back putting on lipstick, a boy's hands holding a game controller with the message It's not a game, boy

The next stage of the Mayor of Greater Manchester’s #IsThisOK? campaign to tackle gender-based violence has been launched. Named #IsThisOK?: It’s Not A Game, Boy, the campaign aims to raise awareness of coercive and controlling behaviour.

A hard-hitting film has been released, commissioned by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) with local actors, and featuring a young female who experiences escalating levels of coercive and controlling behaviour from her boyfriend.

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Understand more about the psychology of loneliness and social isolation

Join the Good Practice Mentors team in this online session which shares how Time to Shine in Leeds, and the 13 other Ageing Better partners across England set out to use a range of techniques to reduce social isolation and loneliness in people 50+. Along the way they found out more about how social isolation and chronic loneliness can affect people, and some techniques that worked to reduce loneliness.

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Suicide Bereavement: Practical Applications Conference 2025

Harmless is hosting its sixth annual online National Suicide Bereavement Conference. To mark World Suicide Prevention Day, Harmless will be presenting a day packed with live webinars examining practical applications for working in suicide bereavement. The conference will be live streamed and will host a plethora of experts in the field. The theme for this year's event is Beyond Beginnings: Achieving Postvention Excellence.

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