Our impact

This year financial challenges for families and the organisations that support them continues to make it harder for victims to leave abusive relationships. It has also placed pressure on charities like ours as fundraising becomes harder and resources scarcer. However, at IDAS we have been successful in retaining our contracts across all the areas we work. We were successful in an application for funding to purchase properties and we have now bought our first houses to support the most vulnerable families.

During 2025 we managed over 20,000 referrals and our helplines dealt with 29,513 calls. We also supported 1952 people through our live chat service and our training team trained 12,000 professionals to recognise the harmful impacts of abuse.

Our work in the North has never been more necessary and the national picture shines a light on the magnitude of domestic abuse and violence against women and children.

• 1.6 million women are subject to domestic abuse every year in England and Wales.
  85,000 women are raped in England and Wales every year whilst prosecution rates fell to under 3%.
• 100,000 people in the UK are at imminent risk of being murdered or seriously injured as a result of domestic abuse every year.
• 130,000 children live in households where there is domestic abuse. It is estimated that a third of these are not known to any agencies.
• There is a significant link between domestic abuse and child abuse and 62% of children living with domestic abuse are directly harmed by the perpetrator.