AVA (Against Violence and Abuse) Project

AVA is an expert, groundbreaking and independent charity working across the UK.

Our vision
A world without gender based violence and abuse.

Our mission
To inspire innovation and collaboration and encourage and enable direct service providers to help end gender based violence and abuse particularly against women and girls.

AVA’s work is focused around those areas where we can make the best contribution to ending violence and abuse.

We do this by making sure that survivors get the help and support they need in the here and now, through providing innovative training that has a proven direct impact on the professional practice of people supporting survivors of violence and abuse.

We develop a range of toolkits, e-learning and other material that supports professionals to provide effective and appropriate support to survivors of violence and abuse.

We use our influence and networks to ensure survivors voices are heard.

For example we have a growing network for our Community Groups Programme course which is a therapeutic course for mothers and children who have experienced abuse. AVA is exclusively running these courses based on the Canadian model.

We are working towards a future where the lives of women and girls are not blighted by gender based violence and abuse by working with children and young people to play our part in raising a generation against violence and abuse. We conduct innovative and award winning work on prevention – because violence against women and girls, although widespread, is not inevitable.

For example we have worked on a Prevention Platform website which helps schools and other youth settings develop a comprehensive approach to preventing gender based violence.

We enhance society’s ability to end violence and abuse by carrying out innovative and practical research that fills the gaps in our understanding.

AVA (Against Violence & Abuse), was established on 12 April 2010 to work towards ending violence and abuse against women and girls.
We were set up as an independent, national charity in order to take forward the work of the Greater London Domestic Violence Project (GLDVP). We widened the scope of the GLDVP’s work both geographically (from being focussed on London to working across the UK) and thematically (from a focus on domestic violence to a wider focus on all forms of Violence Against Women and Girls).

The GLDVP was established in 1997 and had been hosted by a parent charity called the London Action Trust. Our foundations were the solid achievements and reputation of GLDVP whose work within Greater London led to their recognition as leaders in the field of domestic violence work. The GLDVP had many achievements, developing and implementing the first ever London Domestic Violence Strategies (2001-04 and 2005-08), during which time there was a 57% drop in domestic homicide rates.

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