Black and minoritised communities

Muslim Women’s Network Helpline (MWN Helpline)

• Domestic abuse
• Honour-based abuse and forced marriage
• Faith settings
• Women
• Black and minoritised communities

A faith and culturally sensitive helpline and counselling service, run by Muslim Women’s Network UK. It is mainly for Muslim women and girls, but also supports women of other faiths or none, and men and boys. It helps with issues including domestic abuse, spiritual abuse, honour-based abuse, forced marriage, and rape and sexual violence, and counselling is available in Urdu, Punjabi, Mirpuri, Bengali and Arabic; there may be a waiting list.

• Domestic abuse
• Honour-based abuse and forced marriage
• Faith settings
• Women
• Black and minoritised communities

A ‘by and for’ service for Sikh Panjabi women and children affected by domestic, sexual or spiritual abuse, with a team of female advisers. It gives culturally sensitive advocacy, for example on safety, protection orders and housing, and free counselling for women and girls who have experienced domestic, sexual or spiritual abuse. Its helpline gives confidential support in Panjabi and English.

• Domestic abuse
• Honour-based abuse and forced marriage
• Women
• Black and minoritised communities

Black and minoritised women of all ages, and their children, facing domestic or sexual abuse, forced marriage or so-called honour-based abuse. Anyone can call its helpline for free advice; ongoing casework is for women living in Ealing, Hounslow or Hillingdon, except forced marriage casework, which it does nationally. It does not support male victims but can refer them on.

Survivors Voices

Online

• Domestic abuse
• If you were abused as a child
• Faith settings
• Black and minoritised communities

Survivors of any kind of abuse, trauma or violence, as a child or as an adult. Survivor-led peer support groups, mostly on Zoom, including a general group, a group for Black and racially marginalised people (online or in person in south London) and a faith and abuse group; you join by invitation after a chat. It does not offer therapy or counselling.