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We’re a Cambridgeshire-based domestic abuse charity providing practical help, counselling and community-based activities to help survivors rebuild their lives.

Registered Charity: 1205725. The Angels Foundation UK is a registered charity 1205725 (formerly known as The Property Angels Foundation CIC) which supports families who have fled domestic abuse throughout Huntingdonshire. Our purpose is to bring comfort and hope to families fleeing domestic abuse, providing families with furniture, flooring, home comforts and social introductions to the community, through our 'Back to Life' support project. You would think that the challenges facing families would end once they leave their abuser, but unfortunately, they don’t.

• 98% of social housing allocated to survivors of domestic abuse have no flooring, no white goods, no furniture
• 95% of domestic abuse survivors have experienced financial abuse, with no funds to provide basic household items
• 50% of domestic abuse survivors don’t have enough money for essentials for their children

Not having items such as beds, or a fridge - basic items they need to look after their family - is a significant contributor to why women feel they have no choice, but to return to an abusive perpetrator. Integral to the support we give families affected by domestic abuse, is that they understand their community haven’t forgotten about them, that they aren’t alone, and that people care about them. What We Do

• Signpost individuals in need of support to qualified professionals specialising in domestic abuse.
• Our 'Back to Life Support Project' helps families who have fled domestic abuse in their hour of need by sourcing items for their home, such as white goods, flooring and furniture.
• Social activities for emotional well-being and peer support, such as the monthly Angel Walk and Talks, coffee mornings and weekly support groups.
• Providing 12 weeks free counselling and group therapy through The Angels Foundation UK Counselling and Therapy Services. Our aim is to bring hope, helping families rebuild their lives by giving them a comfortable and safe place to start from.

29/10/2026

Every referral starts with someone noticing that a person needs more than a set of keys. Recently, that someone was the team at Caring Together.

They had been supporting a woman who spent months in refuge. When she was finally offered a place of her own, the rooms were empty. There was no furniture to sit or sleep on and no white goods in the kitchen. Caring Together got in touch with us, and our team took it from there.

Afterwards they wrote to tell us how happy she was to have a safe, comfortable home for herself and her children. That kind of message stays with all of us.

Leaving is only the beginning, and a home is often where the next chapter starts.

Partnerships like this one mean nobody has to start that chapter in an empty room.

Thank you, Caring Together, for your kind words and for everything you do 🩵

You can help us furnish the next home by donating or volunteering here: https://angelsfoundation.org.uk/home

28/10/2026

Getting a social housing tenancy should feel like a turning point. For many survivors of domestic abuse, it is. But it is also where the next crisis quietly begins.

New research from End Furniture Poverty lays out the scale of the problem. Only 3% of social housing in England is let as furnished. In the private rented sector, that figure is 30%. Survivors are handed a key and a bare room. No bed. No cooker. No floor coverings. No curtains.

For a woman who has already survived the most difficult thing she will ever live through, sourcing those essentials, often with damaged credit and little money, is not a small ask. It is a barrier to recovery.

This is the gap the Angels Foundation works in. We are a specialist post-domestic abuse charity. Alongside a small number of organisations doing vital work across the country, we come in after the crisis services, when a survivor has four walls but needs help turning them into somewhere she can actually live and begin to rebuild.

More than 1,000 survivors supported since 2023. 543 essential items supplied. And demand is doubling.

Every donation helps turn an empty room into a safe home. Read our full response to the report on our blog, and find out how you can be part of the rebuild.

📰 http://angelsfoundation.org.uk/news-and-views/f/our-part-in-creating-homes-to-rebuild-lives

27/10/2026

The eagle-eyed among you might have noticed a new face on our website recently. We’re thrilled to finally give him a proper introduction: Dave Sargent has joined our board of trustees.

Dave spent his career as a senior leader in policing, working across Cambridgeshire and the wider region. That work gave him a deep understanding of exploitation and vulnerability, and of how complicated life can become for the people caught up in them.

Away from his professional life, Dave volunteers with SSAFA, the national military charity, supporting people across the East of England. It’s there that he’s seen first-hand the difference a domestic abuse charity can make.

For us, that difference starts once someone has left and is ready to rebuild. Having Dave’s safeguarding experience around the table will help us keep that support safe and strong as more people turn to us.

Thank you, Dave, for giving your time to Angels. 🪽

Read more about Dave and our board here: https://angelsfoundation.org.uk/meet-the-angels

23/10/2026

A safe home should be more than four walls and a roof.

We’re so proud to share that The Angels Foundation helped shape Creating Homes to Rebuild Lives, a new national report from End Furniture Poverty and Furnishing Futures.

Caroline, our CEO, is thanked in the report for her contribution. She shared what we see every week: women who have found the courage to leave, then handed the keys to a home with no bed, no cooker and sometimes not even a floor. One family we worked with had to put their little one in a snowsuit just to crawl around safely on bare concrete.

As Caroline puts it, “leaving the relationship is just the beginning.” A bed, a sofa and a warm floor are where the rebuild starts 🪽

Read the full story on our blog: https://angelsfoundation.org.uk/news-and-views/f/our-part-in-creating-homes-to-rebuild-lives

22/10/2026

For a lot of survivors, the experience of being truly heard by someone who understands what they’ve been through is one of the most significant parts of recovery. Not just listened to, but recognised. Having someone who didn’t need convincing, who understood the complexities without explanation.

Someone we supported shared these words with us. What comes through is not just relief, but recognition. That’s what specialist support looks like, and it’s what makes it different from generic counselling.

Our one-to-one counselling service is built around that. Sessions with someone trained specifically in domestic abuse and trauma, who can sit with the full picture of what a person has experienced.

If this is where you are, or where someone you care about is, you can read more and self-refer here: https://angelsfoundation.org.uk/counselling-and-therapy 🩵

20/10/2026

Every part of this space has been put together with the people who walk through our doors in mind, so it means a great deal when others get behind that.

Hazell Flooring have donated new flooring for the building, and their team came in to fit it. It’s a big step towards the space being ready to welcome people in.

When a business chooses to invest in us and the people we support, it makes a lasting difference. Thank you to everyone at Hazell Flooring for your generosity and your time.

We’ll share more as the final details come together.

19/10/2026

This time next week, a new group of women will be meeting for their first Skylark session in Ely. Two days later, another group will do the same in St Ives. For some of them, it will be the first time in a long while that they’ve had space to think about themselves.

Skylark is our free six-week programme for women in Cambridgeshire who have already left an abusive relationship. It gives women room to make sense of what they’ve been through and to start shaping their next chapter, alongside others who understand.

When our last groups finished, we asked the women who took part what the six weeks had meant to them. One summed it up in five words: “I am healing and moving forward.” Every woman who completed a feedback form said she would recommend Skylark to another woman.

The Ely group meets on Monday mornings from 10am to 12pm, starting 26 October. The St Ives group meets on Wednesday evenings from 7pm to 9pm, starting 28 October. Places are still open in both 🩵

If this sounds like something you, or someone you care about, could use right now, you can find all the details and sign up here: https://angelsfoundation.org.uk/6-week-recovery-programme

16/10/2026

For someone rebuilding after domestic abuse, the right support isn’t always on their doorstep. Lately, the people in our counselling service have been reaching out to us from as far as Edinburgh and Exeter, and from plenty of towns and cities in between.

We’re proud to be rooted in Cambridgeshire, and that won’t change. But the need for specialist counselling after domestic abuse doesn’t stop at a county line, and it means so much that people are finding their way to us from so far afield.

Leaving is one of the hardest things a person can do. What comes after can be just as hard, and often much quieter. The fear doesn’t switch off once the door closes, and rebuilding a sense of safety takes time and the right kind of help.

That’s the part of the journey our counsellors know best. They understand what life after abuse can look like, and they work at a pace that feels right for each person, however long that takes.

Thank you to everyone who has trusted us with their story, wherever they are. If you’re rebuilding after an abusive relationship, or you know someone who is, you can find out more about our counselling here: https://angelsfoundation.org.uk/counselling-and-therapy 🩵

14/10/2026

This afternoon Caroline, our CEO, and Angela, one of our trustees, headed to Westminster for the launch of Creating Homes to Rebuild Lives. It’s a new report from End Furniture Poverty and Furnishing Futures on why furnished homes matter so much for survivors of domestic abuse, and we’re really proud to have played a part in it.

Jess Phillips MP spoke about the courage it takes to flee, often with children, only to find the fresh start means sleeping on bare floorboards with no cooker or fridge. Jess Asato MP and Claire Donovan from End Furniture Poverty spoke too. In the report, one survivor shares that at times she considered going back to her abuser so her daughter would have a bed to sleep in.

Caroline contributed to the research, and some of the photos in the report come from our own work. She shares the story of a family whose little one had to wear a snowsuit to crawl around their new home, because the floors were bare concrete. As she says in the report, “leaving the relationship is just the beginning.”

That is the reality we see in Cambridgeshire. A bed means a proper night’s sleep. A sofa means somewhere to sit with your children at the end of the day. These are the things that let someone settle and start to rebuild.

Thank you to End Furniture Poverty and Furnishing Futures for including us, and to everyone who spoke so powerfully today. 🩵

You can read the report here: https://endfurniturepoverty.org/creating-homes-to-rebuild-lives/

13/10/2026

Once a month, we gather up everything that’s been happening at Angels into one newsletter. It’s our way of keeping you close to the work, even if you don’t catch every post ✉️

The latest edition looks back on a busy September. Our CEO Caroline joined Lucy Wade on her podcast, DIP in and out, to talk about the day-to-day of helping survivors rebuild, and she spent an evening with fundraising volunteer Natalie at the Jimmy’s Cambridge gala. There’s also a thank you to the National Highways team, whose furniture donation Karen and Neil went out to collect.

We’ve rounded up the local fundraisers coming up this season too, including two festive nights out in St Neots at the end of November.

If you’d like it landing in your inbox each month, you can sign up here: https://theangelsfoundationuk.beaconforms.com/form/762d2746

Thank you for following along with us 🩵

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