AMAZING - We have enough funding until the winter 2024/25 - thank you so much for your help with our urgent appeal after cuts have put Vida at risk of closure!

WE HAVE RAISED £25,000 SO FAR !

The charity continues to raise funds to secure the charity’s future and to save lives.   

Vida helps on average 250 women and girls per year and  those women tell us …

5 out of 6 women no longer have suicidal thoughts

6 out of 7 women lower their depression

6 out of 9 women overcome their trauma symptoms

Local Vida service user Janice said “the therapy I got at Vida saved my life. When I came to therapy on day one, I felt awful as I was not able to find other services to support my long-term recovery.  Now I feel happier, safer and I understand what I deserve in a healthy relationship. There are many women that are still living with the effects of domestic abuse that happened in their past. I’m supporting the campaign to save Vida so they can help women in Sheffield who were traumatised like me”

*1 in 4 women experience domestic abuse on average, and we have 62% referrals via the NHS e.g, MAPPS, GP’s & Talking Therapies.  According  to the **Sheffield Report it is expected that there will be an increase in abuse and Vida’s closure would put significant added pressure on the NHS.   

We really need your help!
Our service costs £15-20k per month (some volunteer therapist hours are used)
We provide around 216 therapy sessions a month – Vida Pathway  
We save the NHS around £50k per month - based on published NHS data for specialist mental health services.

Contact:  Karen Hague MBE: k.hague@vidasheffield.org.uk  m.07490 199643

References:* www.ncdv.org.uk/domestic-abuse-statistics-uk/
** www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-67489129
www.england.nhs.uk/costing-in-the-nhs/national-cost-collection/