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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£1.4M
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Spending
£1.3M
Public benefits
The beneficiaries of our work are individuals who have been directly bereaved and/or injured as a result of conflict related actions. The relief of those in need leads to the following benefits • The provision of counseling and psychotherapy helps improve the psychological wellbeing of the person who suffers from psychological harm. • The
provision of complementary therapies that support the person with the physical symptoms of trauma related stress and anxiety enabling them to learn new skills to cope with anxiety and trauma. • The provision of safe spaces of peer interaction and group activities that support the person to recover from the experiences of isolation and the destruction of feelings of safety following the traumatic experience which reduces feelings of isolation and anxiety in situations which reawaken trauma. • The provision of benefits advice and advice on other support schemes for victims and survivors of conflict to alleviate the needs individuals experience as a result of the effects of economic hardship that have arisen as a result of the loss of education and employment opportunities as a result of the traumatic experience. • The provision of research and legal advice to support individuals and families who seek to establish the circumstances in which conflict related bereavement and/or injury occurred which empowers the individual to cope with the consequences of the experience of trauma. The alleviation of the multiple needs arising from traumatic bereavement and injury for those persons who experienced this trauma and an improvement in the wellbeing of those individuals. This advancement of human rights, conflict resolution and reconciliation leads to the following benefits • The recording of the experience of human rights violations and archiving of these experiences, which ensures understanding of the nature of violations, how they were experienced and promotes the value of conflict resolution • The provision of casework advice for those who have experienced conflict related violations of human rights to promote the primacy of peaceful reparation and recourse through human rights frameworks which increases good relations between people who experienced conflict and its effects and creates opportunities for understanding and reconciliation • The provision of advice on relevant domestic and international human rights frameworks and remedies to those who have suffered conflict related violations of human rights through bereavement and injury which leads to wider community understanding of conflict related harms • The provision and publication of research on thematic issues of human rights violations as they were experienced during the recent conflict, within the frameworks of domestic and international human rights law to increase the value and application of human rights among those who have suffered from violations of human rights • The promotion of human rights law and frameworks as important tools for recovery from conflict and conflict resolution and long term reconciliation highlighting why human rights are relevant • The provision of workshops between victims and survivors of conflict related human rights violations to promote understanding between them and the value of peaceful conflict resolution and reconciliation among those who have suffered most from the conflict. These benefits are demonstrated through the enhancement of the health and wellbeing of those engaging with us. There is a risk that working with persons who have suffered violent trauma will be retraumatised or suffer additional traumatic reaction. We can show that this harm is outweighed by the benefits through our dedication to best practice, constant CPD of all staff, volunteers understanding trauma and its effects and building all staff manuals, policies and procedures to reflect best practice in working with survivors of traumatic events There are no private benefits arising from our purposes.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
RFJ is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. We provide counselling and psychotherapy and pathways of referral where appropriate to statutory mental health providers. All counsellors and psychotherapists are accredited and supervised. RFJ also provides complementary therapies and training in complementary
therapies. We provide health days based in localised community centres to support access to understanding of techniques to manage anxiety and stress resulting from trauma. RFJ provides an advice service on applications for benefits and for individual schemes of assistance available from the Victims and Survivors Service. RFJ provides research advice to families seeking information on the circumstances of the deaths and injuries of their loved ones - this includes research services using public records and available contemporaneous materials. RFJ provides advice and support to those engaging with historic investigation mechanisms such as inquests, PSNI investigations and Police Ombudsman Investigations RFJ also provides drop-in services of safety and friendship. IN addition we provide vocational and non-vocational classes such as painting, quilting, pottery, creative writing, flower arranging. These are all designed to support the expression of traumatic experience in a safe and managed environment. RFJ also support families and individuals to safely record their experience of trauma through writing, painting, quilting and other creative art forms.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Who the charity helps
- Victim support
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Arts
- Counselling/support
- Disability
- Gender
- Human rights/equality
- Relief of poverty
- Research/evaluation
- Welfare/benevolent
