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SWA Chief Executive – Lynne Sanders is awarded MBE.

Congratulations to Lynne Sanders, our Chief Executive, who has been honoured with an MBE for services to Victims of Domestic Abuse in Swansea. 24 years after starting as a volunteer for Swansea Women’s Aid, Lynne became our Chief Executive. Over the past 12 years, under Lynne’s management and guidance, the organisation has seen vast growth, both in size and expertise, providing ...

Swansea Women’s Aid receives the NQSS Quality Mark

On International Women’s Day, we are delighted to announce that we have been re-accredited with the Welsh Women’s Aid National Quality Service Standards Quality Mark. This is wonderful news, demonstrating the quality of the specialist services we deliver and recognising the work of our dedicated, committed team who relentlessly support the families in touch with us to cope with and ...

Thank You GWR!

A big thank you to Great Western Railway for the wonderful Christmas Santa’s train ride for 60 of our service users. The children were extremely excited and the feedback’s been amazing, with one mum telling us, “It was such a lovely experience, both the kids and I thoroughly enjoyed it.” Thank you GWR! ...

Swansea Women’s Aid Updates – June 2022

  Congratulations to Lynne Sanders, our Chief Executive, who has been honoured with an MBE for services to Victims of Domestic Abuse in Swansea. 24 years after starting as a volunteer for Swansea Women’s Aid, Lynne became our Chief Executive. Over the past 12 years, under Lynne’s management and guidance, the organisation has seen vast growth, both in size and expertise, providing a ...

Swansea Women’s Aid Face Covering Guidance Update 14/09/2020

  As of today (14/09/2020) The Welsh Government have announced that face masks are compulsory in public indoor spaces in Wales. This means that face masks now must be worn in Swansea Women’s office by staff, women and children over the age of 11 attending appointments. Due to this, we ask and encourage women to wear face coverings where possible to ...

COVID-19 Update June 12th 2020

Update 7th July 2020: Our central office and staff are set up and fully equipped to adhere to the government’s latest Covid-19 workplace guidance. Furthermore, we are pleased to announce that we are now in a position to offer a limited amount of face to face appointments. Please speak to a support worker to discuss your individual/immediate needs.   We want to reassure our ...

Urgent Appeal for Mobile Phones

http://swanseawomensaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Mobile-phone-appeal.mp4 Having to stay at home under the current circumstances can be a lonely and solitary time for many, However, it is made even harder for  some of our service users who do not have access to a mobile phone. For many of us at this time, our phones and other devices are our only access to the outside world, but ...