Martha runs the Great South Run for Yellow Door

This year I am going to be running in the AJ Bell Great South Run for Yellow Door. Yellow Door is a charity which support survivors of sexual violence and domestic abuse across Southampton and Hampshire. Yellow Door supported 4709 people of all genders and ages last years. With 1 in 4 women, 1 in 6 children and 1 in 18 men experiencing sexual assault in their lifetime there is a need for incredibly services like Yellow Door to exist. Not only does Yellow Door support survives of assault through their ISVA service, they also provide therapeutic services, psycho-educational programs and a dedicated Diversity and Inclusion advocacy service for those from diverse demographics and with protected characteristics. Since the pandemic referrals to Yellow Door have increased by 182% therefore the services of Yellow Door continued to be needed throughout the local community.

Your money can do the following:

• £5 -could buy resources for a child or young person doing Art Therapy.

• £10 -could provide transport costs for an ISVA client to attend a trial at court

• £15 -could pay for healthy food for children attending one of our 12 week therapeutic programmes.

• £20 -could pay for resources so our STAR Project can deliver preventative educational workshops in schools

• £50 -could pay for a counselling session for someone who has experienced sexual abuse/violence

• £150 -could contribute towards STAR healthy relationship prevention sessions in Southampton schools

• £300 -could enable a young person to attend our Creative Arts Group, a group for young people who have experienced sexual abuse to come together and recover from the trauma they have experienced

• £500 -could be used in many ways including enabling our STAR team to deliver 4 preventative education sessions to up to 120 young people

• £2,500 -could fund a Bright Stars course for 8 young people who have experienced domestic abuse