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We’re recruiting: Interim Finance & Resources ManagerCould your financial expertise help keep specialist support for sur...
08/10/2026

We’re recruiting: Interim Finance & Resources Manager

Could your financial expertise help keep specialist support for survivors strong?

We’re looking for an experienced finance professional to join our Leadership Team.

You’ll oversee our finance function alongside business support, people administration and office operations, helping to ensure our resources are managed effectively and that we can continue delivering specialist support to women and children affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence.

£37,740 per year | 35 hours | 6 month fixed term contract I Hybrid working, based in Barry

We’re looking for someone with strong financial management experience, ideally within a charity, not for profit, publicly funded or similarly regulated environment, with experience of management accounts, budgets, cash flow, funding streams and financial reporting.

Female applicants only. This is a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

If you’re an experienced finance professional who wants to use your skills to support an organisation making a difference to survivors and their families, we’d love to hear from you.

Find out more and apply: https://shorturl.at/kXhIZ
Application closes at midnight on 29th October.

October is Domestic Abuse Awareness Month. We asked our Survivor Advocacy Panel what they wish more people understood ab...
07/10/2026

October is Domestic Abuse Awareness Month. We asked our Survivor Advocacy Panel what they wish more people understood about domestic abuse.

Their answers are powerful reminders that domestic abuse is complex, often hidden, and never as simple as it can appear from the outside.

These are survivors' voices. Please share this post on behalf of survivors in our community.

Help more people hear what survivors want us to understand, challenge the stigma that can make speaking out so difficult, and help us shut down the space in our communities where domestic abuse can and does still take place.

Domestic abuse is everyone's business. Understanding it is one step towards changing it.

A huge thank you to one of our Survivor Advocacy Panel members for designing the graphics for this post, and for helping to ensure survivor voices are at the heart of our awareness work.

Life Can Be Different. 💜

05/10/2026

What a team! 💜

A huge thank you to Ceri, Hannah, Tom, Gareth and Mike for taking on the huge challenge of the Cardiff Half Marathon and raising vital funds for Vale DAS.

Every mile you ran and every pound you raised helps us in our mission to support survivors and their families across the Vale of Glamorgan, providing the life saving and life affirming support they need to live free from abuse.

As a local front-line charity, we rely heavily on the generosity, fundraising and support of our community to continue providing our specialist services. From refuge and safe accommodation to advocacy, emotional support and therapeutic aftercare, your support helps make sure survivors know they are not alone and that life can be different.

Thank you for believing in what we do, for putting yourselves through 13.1 miles, and for standing with survivors. We couldn't do it without you.

01/10/2026

🗓️ The Early Release Scheme begins today 🗓️

This means that some prisoners will be released earlier than their original release date. The rest of the sentence will be served outside of prison, with supervision and monitoring.

Those that have signed up to the Victim Contact Scheme should be contacted to receive information on the potential early release. You can find more information about the contact scheme here:

👉 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/get-support-as-a-victim-of-crime/information-about-the-victim-contact-scheme

However, perpetrators of VAWDASV often see sentences of less than 12 months, meaning these survivors will not be contacted in regard to the early release scheme. Those that are contacted do not yet have any reassurance of when their perpetrator will be released. Survivors have a right to feel safe and to be informed about decisions that could directly affect this.

SignHealth have also published a video which explains this scheme in British Sign Language:

👉 https://signhealth.org.uk/blog/early-release-scheme-what-it-means-for-deaf-people/

Welsh Women's Aid will be publishing a resource library to support survivors and specialist services with the new policy. This page will soon be used to share additional resources that are being developed in collaboration with our partners and stakeholders alongside information regarding the Violence Against Women and Girls Victim Fund to support those working with survivors impacted by the early release of offenders.

👉 https://welshwomensaid.org.uk/information-support/progression-model-resource-library/

Welsh Women's Aid statement in response to the Early Release Scheme:

👉 https://welshwomensaid.org.uk/news/welsh-womens-aid-statement-on-the-early-release-of-prisoners/

28/09/2026

💔Are you a victim of domestic abuse or worried about someone else?
Then Vale Domestic Abuse Services are there to help!

📞01446 744755

💔Ydych chi'n dioddef o gam-drin domestig neu'n poeni am rywun arall?
Mae Gwasanaethau Cam-Drin Domestig yna i helpu!

📞01446 744755

Leaving doesn't always mean the abuse stops. For some survivors, it gets worse.This Post Separation Abuse Awareness Week...
21/09/2026

Leaving doesn't always mean the abuse stops. For some survivors, it gets worse.

This Post Separation Abuse Awareness Week, we are sharing the experience of a former Vale DAS service user and member of our Survivor Advocacy Panel.

She wants other survivors to know that if abuse continues after they have left, they are not imagining it, they are not overreacting and they are not alone.

Post separation abuse can take many forms.

It can be stalking and harassment. Financial abuse. Unwanted contact. Manipulation through children. Court proceedings. Threats and intimidation.

Sometimes it can look like kindness.

And sometimes individual incidents can seem so small that other people don't understand why they are frightening. But when they form part of a pattern, and are being used by someone who knows exactly what will cause fear and anxiety, their impact can be huge.

Evidence shows the period following separation can carry a heightened risk of violence. Our Survivor Advocacy Panel member describes what this felt like for her:

“They will use whichever tactic they can, and move on to the next when they've exhausted that avenue.”

She experienced financial pressure, unwanted contact, manipulation through the children, repeated court proceedings and behaviour that others could easily dismiss as coincidences or isolated incidents.

But she could see the pattern.

And the impact did not end when the relationship did.

“I'm still living with the effects.”

We are sharing her story because recognising post separation abuse matters.

If you have left an abusive relationship and the abuse has continued, changed or escalated, you have not done anything wrong. You deserve support.

If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse, including post separation abuse, Vale DAS is here to help.

01446 744755
Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4.30pm

Live Fear Free: 0808 80 10 800

Life Can Be Different.

18/09/2026

Helping children rebuild safety, confidence and connection.

Children affected by domestic abuse need specialist support too. Thanks to £60,000 funding from The Freemasons' Charity & South Wales Freemasons, Vale Domestic Abuse Services is launching a new two year Rebuilding Safety and Connection programme, supporting up to 70 children aged 4 to 16 across the Vale of Glamorgan.

The 12 week programme will provide one to one therapeutic support alongside parent and child play and relational sessions, helping children to:
• Feel safer and more emotionally secure
• Understand and regulate their emotions
• Rebuild confidence and self esteem
• Strengthen relationships with their parent
• Develop positive relationships with peers and engage with school

Demand for specialist support for children is growing. Last year alone, Vale DAS supported more than 100 children and young people, with referrals continuing to come from schools and partner agencies across the Vale.

Children experience domestic abuse in their own right. What they have seen, heard and lived through can have a lasting impact, and early, specialist support can help them process those experiences and begin to rebuild.

We’re incredibly grateful to Provincial Grand Lodge of South Wales for their generous support, which will help more children access the specialist support they need to feel safer, rebuild their confidence and strengthen family relationships.

Thank you for helping us make sure children are not left without support.

14/09/2026

Community allyship & understanding can be a lifeline for those experiencing domestic abuse.

Join us on 21st September at Tramshed Tech in Barry, to take part in SAS: Support & Signpost - FREE training designed for businesses and individuals in the local community to understand what abuse is, and how to safely respond so that survivors access the specialist support that they need.

If you’d like to join us, register your interest here: https://welshwomensaid.org.uk/change-that-lasts/ask-me-project/register-interest/

Great to be a part of this last week with community partners.
14/09/2026

Great to be a part of this last week with community partners.

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198 Holton Road
Barry
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Monday 9am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9am - 4:30pm
Friday 9am - 4:30pm

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