Hackney Women’s Aid: A History

A simple cartoon showing a row of terraced houses. One has a banner 'Battered Women's Refuge' with a solidarity fist coming out of the roof with the words 'women together'.

Hackney Women’s Aid was one of the earliest in the country to provide a refuge to women and their families fleeing domestic violence. In this blog we explore the story of how a small group of women volunteers founded an organisation that has continued to support women and girls for over 50 years. The Women’s … Read more