Ways to Support isas

Most counselling organisations calculate their counselling costs at between £40-£60 per hour. This means even though ISAS is lucky enough to receive free time from its dedicated pool of Volunteers, that ISAS needs donations and financial support to keep the service running.

ISAS works with between 100-150 survivors and their carers at any one time and delivers around 6000 counselling sessions per year. Whilst ISAS is supported by a range of funders, some of this funding is one off and none of it is long term funding. We therefore rely on donations and additional funding to keep doing our invaluable work.

If you can then we would ask you to donate to us wherever possible. £40 will cover an initial assessment with a survivor, helping them to know that help is finally on its way. £300 will help to deliver a course of counselling sessions for those less traumatised and £900 will help offer support to a survivor needing longer term support.

You can offer us direct funding by clicking on the donate button on the left hand side of the screen.

Other ways to support us

Why not recyle your old mobiles and donate the proceeds to ISAS? - Many people have old mobile phones lying around the house which they think are worthless. Old mobiles contain precious metals that can be valuable- some old mobiles are worth up to £30- enough for an initial assessment for a survivor.

You could hold a small fundraising event like a coffee morning, a party or a cream tea for your friends which would be cheap to do but might yield up to £100, enough to begin counselling with a traumatised survivor.

Recycle your clothes on e-bay. - How many items of clothes or pairs of shoes do you have that are taking up wardrobe space? E bay often has 'free listings' days and items can be sold in bulk- for example: 3 dresses the same size can be sold in a batch. This will save you time and effort as well as making room in your home.

You might have your own fundraising ideas, if so let us know.

Sometimes people cannot offer us donations right now but might wish to leave a legacy in their will, offering future support. This too would help ISAS in the much longer term.