We:Are Women'S Empowerment And Recovery Educators
Charity 1123337
Overview
Summary
WE:ARE appears to occupy a focused recovery-and-prevention role within the West Midlands domestic-abuse support landscape. Rather than presenting itself primarily as a crisis, legal or refuge service, it offers structured, trauma-informed group programmes intended to help women understand abuse, rebuild agency, strengthen parenting confidence and reconnect with employment. Its model combines recovery education with peer connection and creative expression, while directing participants to specialist legal and other support agencies where needs fall outside its offer.
Operational geography
No operational geography is currently available for this organisation.
Areas of work
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Education/training
- General Charitable Purposes
- Other Charitable Purposes
- Recreation
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Other Charitable Activities
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A post-abuse recovery pathway rather than a single intervention
The available evidence suggests WE:ARE has designed a sequenced support model: awareness of abuse, reclaiming personal agency, addressing parenting and children’s experiences, and re-entering employment. This may position it as a bridge between immediate safety support and longer-term recovery.
Why it matters
This clarifies the organisation’s likely civic role: it may complement crisis, legal and accommodation providers by addressing the longer-lasting effects of abuse that can remain after immediate danger has reduced.
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“WE:ARE delivers a pathway of programmes to support women to heal, move forward and take back control of their lives.”
Source:Organisation“Its programmes include Freedom, Own My Life, Our Healing Home and a six-week course supporting women into, back into or towards employment.”
Source:Organisation“The charity delivers trauma informed awareness, empowerment and parenting programmes to reduce further harm and victimisation.”
Source:Charity Commission
Parenting is treated as part of domestic-abuse recovery
WE:ARE appears to recognise abuse as affecting family relationships as well as individual survivors, using a dedicated programme to explore its impact on mothers and children. Its direct participants are described as women aged 17+, so support for children may be mediated through mothers rather than delivered directly.
Why it matters
This distinction helps identify a potentially complementary role alongside children’s services: WE:ARE may strengthen children’s wellbeing through maternal recovery and parenting support.
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“Our Healing Home is an 11 week course exploring the impact domestic abuse has on us as mothers and our children.”
Source:Organisation“WE:ARE delivers programmes for women aged 17+ who have been subjected to domestic abuse.”
Source:Organisation“The charity’s object includes promoting the wellbeing and safety of women and children affected by domestic violence and associated abuse.”
Source:Charity Commission
Clear boundaries may support a collaborative specialist role
By signposting legal advice and other support externally, WE:ARE appears to define its own contribution as recovery education and empowerment rather than attempting to provide every domestic-abuse intervention itself.
Why it matters
This suggests that referral relationships may be central to its effectiveness and that its local value depends partly on the accessibility of specialist partners.
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“For legal advice please contact NCDV, FLOWS or Support Through Court.”
Source:Organisation“WE:ARE delivers online and face to face awareness, empowerment and parenting programmes.”
Source:Organisation
- The scale, geography and frequency of programme delivery are not provided.
- There is no evidence on participant outcomes, referral routes, waiting times or accessibility for different communities.
- The nature of WE:ARE’s relationships with named support agencies and other local organisations is unclear.
Remaining uncertainties
- Annual reports or impact data showing participant numbers, completion, outcomes and unmet demand.
- Information on referral partnerships, eligibility, safeguarding arrangements and the geographic reach of online and face-to-face provision.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The delivery of a pathway of trauma informed awareness, empowerment and parenting programmes enabling women to overcome the effects of their experiences, improving emotional safety and wellbeing, reducing risk of further harm and victimisation and heal from the impact of the abuse. The following programmes: Freedom Programme, Domestic Abuse Recovery Toolkit, You and me, Mum and ACEs.
Charity objects
The Charity’s Object is for the benefit of the public, the relief of need by the promotion of the physical, emotional and psychological well-being and safety of women and children who have suffered, been threatened with or are presently suffering from domestic violence and associated abuse including emotional, physical, mental, sexual, gender-based or financial abuse in the West Midlands.