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Time left to Double your Donation and Support our Crisis Fund
From 6th October until 12pm on 13th October, every donation to First Light’s Emergency Support Fund will be doubled through the Women and Girls Match Fund. This means your gift will have twice the impact for women and girls affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence.
A domestic abuse survivor may need to leave her home with nothing but the clothes she is wearing. A survivor of sexual violence may find their phone or clothing taken as evidence. Someone attending a medical appointment, counselling session or court hearing may be unable to afford the travel costs needed to continue their recovery journey.
At First Light, we support people through our Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), ISVA services, Sexual Violence Therapy Service and Domestic Abuse Services. Every day, we see how practical support at the right moment can make a life-changing difference.
While statutory funding helps us deliver our specialist services, it cannot always cover the emergency essentials survivors need during a crisis.
That’s why we created our Emergency Support Fund.
Your donation could help provide:
These can be peoples lifelines.
This fund removes barriers, reduces isolation and helps survivors access the support they need to feel safer, rebuild confidence and move forward with their recovery. It provides practical help that can have a lasting impact on someone’s journey towards safety, support and independence.
During match funding week, every pound you donate will be doubled.
£25 becomes £50
£50 becomes £100
£100 becomes £200
Your support helps ensure that when abuse changes everything in an instant, we’re there when it matters most.
We are incredibly grateful to The Big Give Trust and the Women and Girls Match Fund for making this campaign possible. Thanks to their support, every donation made between 6th October and 12pm on 13th October will be doubled, helping us support even more women and girls affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence.
We would also like to thank everyone who chooses to donate.
Year after year, your generosity helps us provide the emergency funding and practical support that statutory funding simply cannot cover. Because of supporters like you, survivors can access essential items, stay connected to specialist support, attend vital appointments and take important steps towards recovery, safety and independence.
Together, you help us be there during some of the most difficult moments in a person’s life.
The need for this support continues every day, and match funding is available for a limited time only.
If you can, please donate before 12pm on 13th October and make your gift go twice as far.
Every donation matters. Every pound helps. Every gift will be doubled.
Abuse can change everything in an instant. Help us be there when it matters most.
Every donation, no matter the size, has the power to change lives. For someone escaping domestic abuse, recovering after sexual violence, or seeking justice and healing from church-related abuse, your gift could be the reason they feel safe, supported, and believed.
If you’re fundraising for First Light, we’d love to hear from you!
Let us help share, promote, and support your efforts. Use the button below to tell us your story, why you chose First Light, what you’re doing to raise money, and include any fundraising page you’ve set up.
Together, we can make a difference.
While donations keep our services running day-to-day, fundraising allows us to go further. Fundraising builds awareness, sparks conversations, and connects communities to the issue of abuse in a powerful way.
When you fundraise, you’re not just raising money, you’re raising voices. Every challenge taken on, every community event hosted, and every fundraiser shared online spreads the message that survivors are not alone.
Fundraising is vital because it:
