How you can help us campaign

Raise awareness amongst your friends and colleagues and speak out against any comments or jokes about domestic violence that demean women or their experience of violence or abuse.
Help Women's Aid to dispel the myths about domestic violence.

Raise awareness of domestic violence in your local community

At work
Display Women’s Aid posters and leaflets about domestic violence in your workplace – see the Resources section. Contact your trade union and find out whether they can bring Women’s Aid campaign objectives to union branch meetings to ask for the support of the Union, or ask your Union to develop workplace domestic violence programmes, or to fundraise for Women’s Aid.

In the media
Write to your local paper if any stories they run misrepresent the reality of domestic violence against women and children.

Lobby your MP

Women’s Aid carries out lobbying to influence government policy on domestic violence, by working with government departments and members of parliament to promote improved responses to domestic violence and our campaign priorities. By contacting your local MP to ask them to support our campaign priorities, you can help us with this work – any lobbying you can do locally will be of enormous benefit for us nationally. > How to lobby your MP

Respond to government consultations

Responding to government consultations allows you a chance have your say about proposed policy and laws. Women’s Aid responds to as many relevant government consultations as possible but it is also important that individuals have their say. Responding to consultations has a number of benefits:

Allows your views about proposed laws or policy to be heard at a national level.
Alerts policy makers to any concerns and issues they may not have considered.