{"id":64000,"date":"2025-03-21T09:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T09:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=64000"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T09:54:33","slug":"sheffield-womens-charity-receives-emergency-funding-to-stay-open-until-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/sheffield-womens-charity-receives-emergency-funding-to-stay-open-until-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Women&#8217;s charity receives emergency funding  to stay open until June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Sheffield Women&#8217;s charity received emergency funding which will allow them to keep their doors open until June. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vidasheffield.org.uk\">Vida Sheffield<\/a> provides a service that helps women suffering from domestic and sexual abuse-related trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After announcing their imminent closure scheduled for March in February, funding from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk\/\">The Henry Smith Charity<\/a> and match funding from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brelmstrust.org.uk\/\">The Brelms Trust<\/a> for up to \u00a325,000 was enough to bail Vida out of their bleak situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Hague MBE, Chief Executive of Vida Sheffield, said: \u201cI feel an amazing amount of relief that there are people out there that still think it&#8217;s so incredibly important to support this service.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClearly, this is about improving mental health, and managing symptoms of post-traumatic stress associated with trauma.\u00a0<br><br>\u201cMy concern was, what happens to those women out there if service does not continue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere isn&#8217;t enough of this kind of service generally within the NHS or the volunteering community sector.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As well as vital funds to take us past March, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vida_sheffield?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vida_sheffield<\/a> has secured a promise of match funding from The Brelms Trust! 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