Domestic Violence and Abuse Support for BME Women and Girls

The London Black Women’s Project provide safe refuge space for BME women and girls over 16 who are survivors of domestic violence and abuse. We provide emergency accommodation based emergency services with housing support for Black and Ethnic Minority women and children fleeing domestic and sexual violence.

Within the refuge, we provide free legal advice on family and immigration law, counselling and long term support with housing, finances and moving on from life beyond abuse.

Domestic violence covers any of the following experiences:

• Physical abuse
• Emotional abuse
• Forced marriage
• Sexual abuse
• Financial control
• Coercive control
• Female genital mutilation
• Harmful practices which includes so-called honour-based violence
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The service provides safe and confidential space to provide women and children with individual casework support, counselling and therapeutic intervention and resettlement support working under an empowerment framework supporting women’s independence, autonomy, free choice and right to live free from violence and harm.

We have refuges in Newham and Haringey in London. 

We do not accept referrals from within the local area that women are fleeing, however we are able to work with women and find other suitable refuge space outside of the fleeing borough.

We accept referrals for women with insecure immigration status and disabled women.

​Please remember to use the ‘Cover Your Tracks’ tab to conceal your visit to this website: www.lbwp.co.uk/cover-your-tracks

We can offer counselling in the following languages: English, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, Sylheti, Yoruba, Ibibio and Luganda, either remotely or face to face at our main office in Plaistow.