27/08/2026
Why does Be There Foundation exist? Our co-founder, Shaan shares the need behind our support and the call for you to join us. To Be There:
“There are women who leave domestic violence with nothing but the courage it took to walk out the door.
And then they discover that leaving was only the beginning.
There are women who have gone back to violence because the alternative was homelessness.
Women sitting outside a courtroom, terrified, with no one beside them.
Women who need to change the locks, fill the fridge, pay for a night somewhere safe, get their children to school, replace the things left behind, or simply have someone say, “You don’t have to do this next bit alone.”
These are the women who can fall through the cracks.
Not because our domestic violence services aren’t doing extraordinary work. They are. Every single day.
But the need is enormous. Services are stretched. Funding has boundaries. Programs have eligibility criteria. And sometimes what a woman desperately needs doesn’t fit neatly into any of them.
That is where we want Be There Foundation to stand.
Alongside the incredible domestic violence sector, filling the practical gaps that can make the difference between a woman moving forward and feeling she has no choice but to go back.
We want to be able to say yes when she needs someone to go to court with her.
Yes, when she needs help to make a new home feel like home.
Yes, when the thing standing between her and safety is something small enough to solve, but too big for her to solve alone.
And sometimes, just yes, we will be there.
We are a new charity. We cannot do this without our community.
So we are asking you to Be There with us. Come to our fundraising events. Join our volunteering days. Wear our t-shirts.
Bring your friends. Invite your colleagues. Call in the people who believe, as we do, that no woman should ever have to return to violence because she had nowhere else to go.
Help us raise the funds to do this work, and help us build the kind of community that catches women before they fall through the cracks.
Please come.
Please support us.
Please help us Be There.
🤍 Shaan”
