More than 100 vulnerable women and girls in Harrow who have been subjected to violence and exploitation will benefit from specialist support from new community groups thanks to the Mayor of London’s grassroots fund.
This comes as part of the Mayor’s Office for Policing & Crime’s Violence Against Women Grassroots fund which announced a further £3million in funding for projects throughout London.
Among the organisations to benefit from the new funding package is the Dawn Charitable Trust in Harrow which has been awarded £100,000. This funding will provide frontline services, particularly specialist counselling, for survivors of violence against women and girls who mostly belong to Asian communities.
The funding builds upon the first phase of the grassroots fund which enabled community groups to support more than 30,000 vulnerable women, girls and families across the capital between 2021 and 2023.
I welcome the scheme, which will protect, empower and support hundreds of vulnerable women affected by systemic abuse and violence across the borough.