Your guide to support and understanding
Welcome to our 'Resources & Support' page. Here, we aim to connect you with relevant, accessible, and safe organisations and charities that provide trauma-informed support and authentic information. Whether you're a survivor, family member, professional, or simply seeking to learn more, we're here to help you navigate your journey towards healing and empowerment.
We are deeply grateful to be able to signpost survivors to these organisations for their individual services and focus areas.
The greatest power is forged by connection and community
Survivors Unite: offer counselling, therapy, complimentary therapies and other supportive services in Selkirk, Scottish Borders
Borders in Recovery: lived experience recovery community in the Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders Rape Crisis Centre
Border Women's Aid
The NSPCC - In Scotland and across the UK. Prevention, protection, information, support and advocacy
Please see below for Link and contact information
From their website: Survivors Unite provides dedicated, skilled, compassionate and flexible sexual abuse recovery support to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse in the Scottish Borders through the provision of the Safe Oaks Project.
Offering recovery support, counselling and therapy, peer support, peer support group, complimentary therapies.
We are not formally affiliated with this organisation but we fully support and hereby signpost for support, therapy, counselling and more.
HOME Survivors Unite
From their website:
Borders In Recovery is a lived experience Recovery
Community hosted by Recovery Coaching Scotland CIC.
The recovery community is open to anyone who is 16+
and in recovery from substance use or supporting
someone who is (family, friends etc.) Our community is
run by people with lived experience of recovery.
We run weekly Recovery Cafés in Galashiels, Hawick,
Peebles, Jedburgh and Eyemouth. Our cafés offer a free
hot meal, peer support, meaningful activities, and sign
posting
From their website:
Scottish Borders Rape Crisis Centre (SBRCC) was established in 2010. We provide emotional and practical support, information, and advocacy to hundreds of survivors of sexual violence every year.We are a specialist service providing support to survivors in the Scottish Borders at our centre or in safe outreach venues across the region. Our workers are trained to a high standard and share the view that gender-based violence is an abuse of power and should not happen.
Our Sunrise service is inclusive to women aged 18+ of any race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability, or religion/cultural background. Our Unity service is inclusive to survivors aged between 12-18 of any race, ethnicity, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, ability, or religion/cultural background.
From their website: BWA provides safe accommodation and specialist support to women and their children. Our women-only spaces provide a physically and emotionally safe environment that is vital to survivors’ safety and recovery, helps women reduce their isolation and enables women to develop peer support networks.
Crucially we continue to support them as they rebuild their lives by sourcing and accessing community activities, reducing isolation, and enabling involvement and belonging.
We provide outreach support to women who are living with domestic abuse and support them to begin to plan for a life that is free from the threat of domestic abuse.
Trusted organisations and charities
We are dedicated to signposting you to safe and trusted organisations and charities that offer invaluable support. Our carefully curated list ensures you can access trauma-informed and authentic sources of information and assistance, helping to reduce isolation and foster connections within the Scottish Borders and further afield.
Discover organisations dedicated to:
- Supporting survivors of abuse and trauma.
- Providing resources on grooming and exploitation.
- Offering guidance for recovery and healing.
- Promoting community resilience and connection.
NSPCC - Scotland and UK
As a lived experience advocate for the NSPCC, I confidently and honestly provide this link to the NSPCC and their work/services. I am proud and humbled to be an advocate for their charity
Informative materials and insights
Empower yourself with knowledge. This section provides access to a range of materials covering related topics such as abuse, harm, grooming, exploitation, and group-based abuse. We believe that being informed is a powerful step towards prevention and recovery.
Explore resources on:
- Understanding the dynamics of abuse and harm.
- Recognising the signs of grooming and exploitation.
- Strategies for recovery and rebuilding.
- Insights into group-based abuse.
Connecting and collaborating for change
Our goal is to build a stronger, more resilient community. This page is designed to support not only survivors and their families but also individuals, groups, authorities, charities, advocates, leaders, media, and organisations. We aim to foster networking and collaborations to improve protection and prevention efforts in our rural areas and beyond.
Join us to:
- Reduce isolation and build connections.
- Contribute to prevention initiatives.
- Empower and advocate for survivors.
- Collaborate on improving community resilience.
Ready to take the next step?
We encourage you to chat with us, follow the signposts to further support, reach out, and become more informed and empowered. Your journey matters, and we are here to help you every step of the way.