Counselling and other Services for Women
Following feedback from our recent website survey, we have placed a search box on our home page for a trial period. This facility is provided free by bravenet which means that you will see some advertising as well as your search results.
We are aware of a couple of issues:
Search results show relevant web pages but link to the top of the page (not the appropriate part of the page).
Links to all matches are displayed so, for example, if you search for "Annual Report", the results include one link which appears because the page contains "Procedures for reporting to the police".
If you use this facility and wish to give us some quick feedback about how useful you have found it, please email us.
Thank you.
Many thanks go to Joanne Danby for undertaking her first triathlon to raise funds for Tyneside Rape Crisis Centre.
As she explains: "I did it! My first triathlon is over and I came out of it unscathed! I managed it with no cramp in my foot, no punctures on my bike ride and I managed (just!) to keep going on the running part.
"Thank you so much to all of you who have supported me in this with encouragement and of course sponsorship money.
"I have managed to raise a more than decent amount of cash for the Rape Crisis Centre . . and I promise I won’t ask you to sponsor me again . . . well, not for at least another year!"
If you want to see pictures of Joanne 'in action', go to her JustGiving page.
Tyneside Rape Crisis Centre is preparing to run a 12 session closed group for women survivors of sexual violence. We are hoping to begin the group late spring / early summer and are currently taking expressions of interest from women survivors of sexual abuse who wish to join this group.
The group will be funded by Spark Response, Tyne and Wear from money raised by staff over a year-long funding drive in support of Tyneside Rape Crisis.
If you are interested and would like more details, please contact one of our counsellors, Sue Howlett or Sue Pearce, on 0191 222 0272. Alternatively you can email Sue Howlett or Sue Pearce.
TRCC’s new training calendar is now available. This includes courses on working with adult survivors of sexual violence, self harm and working creatively.
The Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre in Croydon has launched a freephone number:
The line is open daily from 12 noon until 2.30 pm and 7.00 pm until 9.30 pm.
The number is free from landlines, public telephones and from the main UK mobile networks (3, O2, Orange, T‑mobile, Virgin and Vodafone).
If you want to find out more about the centre’s services or about the issue of sexual violence, please contact us.
We have a full-time Development worker who can come and visit your agency and provide a short informal talk to a group of workers or volunteers. For further details, call or email Dawn (tel: 0191 222 0272).
Our visual media exhibition on ‘Sexual violence: reflections on present realities and hopes for the future’ was held at Newcastle's art works galleries over 10 days in July 2009.
The exhibition went really well with over 70 people contributing to the ‘pledge tree’ (to work towards a world without sexual violence) and over 250 visiting the exhibition overall.
Some of the comments about the exhibition were:
“Excellent and very moving.”
“A wonderful thought-provoking exhibition.”
“You have raised my awareness of what TRCC work involves.”
Our thanks again to everyone who contributed and supported the exhibition.
TRCC held a very successful abseil event at the Vermont Hotel on Sunday 8th March, with 58 people participating on the day.
Sponsorship money continues to be collected, with an estimated £8,000 total raised. Many thanks to all those who participating and supported the event.
