Rape Crisis Centres

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SpareRibFem · 17/04/2018 14:43

In the harrowing reporting of the Belfast rape trial it's hard to pick out what was most distressing but I found the thought of two young women wandering up and down a street looking for a rape crisis centre that had closed down upsetting.

Obviously NI has a particular problem with getting approval for government funding when the assembly isn't sitting. It led me to wondering how these centres are funded in the UK these days. Does anyone here have more insight?

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/after-the-belfast-rape-trial-the-city-needs-its-rape-crisis-centre-back-1.3460804

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harpyone · 17/04/2018 16:52

Oh, hadnt read that. Yes it is desperately sad. Awful to imagine that.

LassWiADelicateAir · 17/04/2018 23:32

Edinburgh Rape Crisis is a registered charity registered at Companies House as a company.

beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC291742/filing-history

On the link I have ticked filed accounts . You can download the most recent filed accounts. Page 10 lists principal donors. It is a mixture of Scottish government, NHS, Children in Need, lottery, Comic Relief and a few private trusts.

LassWiADelicateAir · 17/04/2018 23:41

The accounts state that its local authority and NHS funding streams are due to close in March 2018. The largest donor in 2017 was Comic Relief at £60,000.

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SpareRibFem · 18/04/2018 10:34

Interesting, thanks Lass, didn't occur to me to look through companies house.

Depressing that government funding due to stop

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