The purpose of Mums In Need (MIN) is to support mothers who are or have been subjected to domestic emotional abuse and violence. Mums In Need provides practical guidance and emotional support to mums who have left abusive partners by empowering them with skills and confidence to move forward with their lives.
Over the past few years, Mums In Need has supported over 200 women who have suffered from emotional/psychological abuse (also known as coercive control). Through running their support services, the need for national policy changes became strikingly apparent. Coercive control is now recognised as a crime and yet when victims leave the abusive relationship, they are often left unsupported. MIN carried out interviews with staff and the women who have used the support services. From this research, they have developed a set of policy recommendations which, if implemented, would drastically improve the support available to coercive control victims.
Website: http://mumsinneed.com
02/09/24 Presentation to Mums in Need
Trustees of Mums in Need were delighted to receive our cheque for moneys raised in the last year.
10/07/24 Fund raising at King Edward’s School
Our ‘Share our Skills’ girls were inst
rumental in organising a successful Bun Sale at King Edward’s Lower School. £117.80 was raised for Mums in Need.
Congratulations to them and thanks to those who donated items to sell and those who bought.
06/07/24 Sharrow Festival
Daphne, Eva with one of our Share our Skills girls from King Edwards School pitched in to help on the Mums in Need stall at Sharrow Festival.
A rewarding experience, not only raising money for MINS by selling donated items – thanks to all the donors (especially Tesco) for their generosity but being able to raise the profile of both MINS and Soroptimists. Useful contacts were made along with several productive chats.
23/04/24 Meet the Presidents – Buffet Lunch
Si Sheffield and Si Hallamshire joined forces to greet Sigbi President Ruth, Si Yorkshire President Susie and Programme Director Lindsey.
Si Hallamshire displayed items that they make for Baby Basics supplemented with a display board of their projects. Si Sheffield President Sue introduced Laura (CEO) and Heather from MINS, who defined the charity’s aims and motivation.
Chris described Winn Gardens’ needs and the support given to it’s food bank.
06/12/23 KES girls’ Bun Sale.
07/12/23 Remaining items were donated to Winn Gardens Food Bank.
Unsold cakes, etc from the coffee morning were added to the ‘Bun Sale’ goodies . Another £149.63 to MINS. Great work by the girls. N.B Our Sue Sheriff won the Bear’s Name competiti
on.
05/12/23 Daphne kindly hosted a ‘Coffee and Cake Morning in aid of MINS.
The fund-raising – delicious cakes, biscuits etc were complemented by ‘What Women Want’ , ‘the card lady’, Jackie’s tree, a raffle, and Guess the Bear’s name; in total raising the grand sum of £508.
Thanks and congratulations to who baked goods, made coffee, ran stalls and all those who gave so generously,
21/11/23 Temple Spa Evening
Fun and fund raising at November’s supper evening. Thanks to Nicola and Louise, great ambassadors for Temple Spa, who ensured that we all enjoyed the test kits. The raffle raised £92 for Mums in Need.
Congratulations to the organisers
09/09/23 Boat trip on Chesterfield canal
Everyone enjoyed the boat trip on Chesterfield canal which raised £138 for Mums in Need. The weather was fine; comments ranged through interesting, fun, relaxing and informative. Thanks to President Sue for organising it and her husband who captained the ship.
19/05/23 KES Bun Sale
Supporting MIN (Mums in Need)Congratulations to our three Share Our Skills (SOS) girls from King Edwards School (KES)
They successfully planned, publicised and organised a ‘bun sale’ at the school raising £138.00 Mums in Need. The items sold included their delicious mini lollies.
Thanks to all who gave items to sell, bought or otherwise supported the event.
17/05/23 Presentation of cheque to Mum’s in Need
Presentation of £2023 cheque to Mum’s in Need
18/04/23 Mums In Need Coffee Morning
Mums in Need kindly invited our members to their coffee meeting which both President Daphne and President Elect Sue were delighted to attend.SIGBI Sheffield contributed some raffle prizes.
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06/02/23 The Story behind Mums in Need
Laura Riley (CEO of Mums in Need – MINS one of our President’s charities) described the history of MINS from the touching personal circumstances that led to her recognition of a major problem area without support through setting up MINS, raising funding, acquiring dedicated board members staff and volunteers to it
‘s current situation – recognised by public bodies needing advice on this field.
The charity has a waiting list of clients so is grateful to all sources of support.
A most inspirational person.
