Pankhurst Trust - Manchester Women’s Aid

At Manchester Women's Aid, we have a partnership with Manchester City Council to help deliver programmes of support for families seeking help in refuge.

Our Children and Young People’s Service consists of a team of therapeutic play specialists offering a range of services for children and young people between the ages of 0-18 years, that enable and support their recovery from domestic abuse and violence.

Service includes:

• Early Years Groupwork- designed for children under 5 years old and their parent

• Healing Together- This course is for children aged 5-10 years old

• Living Life to the Full- This course is for CYP aged 11-17 years old and

• You, Me and Mum- This course is for mothers, and it explores the effects of domestic abuse on women as mothers and on children and young people.

• Open Play sessions in Refuge
• Heuristic Play
• 1:1 Play Therapy

• Trips Out

How to access: Is this referral for yourself or someone else?

(1) This referral is for someone else:

If you are an agency making a referral for a client, we cannot accept this without a referral form. Please email referrals@manchesterwomensaid.org instead and we will send you a different referral form

(2) This referral is for me:

Please continue with the form by clicking NEXT: https://www.manchesterwomensaid.org/get-help-form

Need help? If you need support filling in the form or have any questions about the support we provide, please call our helpline on 0161 660 7999.

Manchester Women’s Aid provides services so that domestic abuse survivors can live a life free from the fear of domestic violence and abuse.

Our helpful staff will listen to you and be able to point you in the right direction: whether fleeing domestic abuse is the most appropriate course of action or whether you can be supported in the community with outreach services.   

Calling the helpline or reaching out with an email is a hugely important step and we understand that every situation is unique. Our helpline staff will be understanding and give you advice on safety planning, point you to benefits advice and other resources.   

How to access:

You can call 0161 660 7999 or email referrals@manchesterwomensaid.org on Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 4.30pm

Manchester Women’s Aid has six refuges and four dispersed properties across Manchester catering for up to 38 families in crisis. We will help in any way we can to facilitate a move-on to permanent housing.

In our ASHA refuge, we can offer accommodation to 3 single women with No Recourse to Public Funds and unsettled immigration status.

Service includes:

• Support groups

• Access the refuge user-directed Move On Health & Wellbeing programme

• Receive signposting to partner services e.g. to family and/or immigration solicitors

• Support to access Children’s Centres/local colleges/community groups and to attend external courses linked to employment, training and education.

How to access: Is this referral for yourself or someone else?

(1) This referral is for someone else:

If you are an agency making a referral for a client, we cannot accept this without a referral form. Please email referrals@manchesterwomensaid.org instead and we will send you a different referral form

(2) This referral is for me:

Please continue with the form by clicking NEXT: https://www.manchesterwomensaid.org/get-help-form

Need help? If you need support filling in the form or have any questions about the support we provide, please call our helpline on 0161 660 7999.

The women’s drop-in at the Pankhurst Centre on a Wednesday from 12-2 pm welcomes women of all ages and backgrounds.

It’s your chance to pop in, free of charge, to a relaxed, friendly environment to meet new friends and have fun.

As well as a delicious and nutritious vegetarian lunch, you can enjoy wellbeing workshops, creative activities and talks and discussions.

There is a family law advice clinic on alternate weeks and a Shelter and Housing Benefits adviser once a month.

How to access:

Drop-in

Call or email us for more information