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On Monday 31st March 2025, we will stop actively using our X/Twitter account. After carefully reviewing our social media platforms, we’ve decided to stop using X/Twitter due to its misalignment with our...
Together with Durham PCC, RSACC is launching a renewed bid to make Durham City safer at night. Our free Safer Streets Bystander Training is now available in a new, online...
We are inviting supporters to mark ten years since a landmark law change around coercive control was introduced by attending a special screening of Open Clasp Theatre Company’s play Rattle...
This year we are planning to introduce a new Pre-Therapy Group for those waiting to attend counselling sessions at RSACC. In order to ensure the sessions are as helpful as...
What a fantastic evening it was to come together with inspiring individuals and organisations from across Darlington to celebrate the Stronger Communities Awards on Friday! This annual event shines a...
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Testimonials
The training sessions were engaging, very informative and eye opening. The information on the statistics and range of services was very useful to know as they helped understand the scale and difficulties with sexual violence etc.
I am no longer hiding from life and I have learned to say yes and no. I now do things for me!
It’s made me a happier, stronger, more confident, positive person!
My time here has been so helpful to me. Having time to step back and look at some of the difficult things that have happened in my life and recognise I have strength has been so precious to me. I am so thankful for being able to access such an amazing safe haven! You have given me the opportunity to step back and breathe again. I feel like a stronger person, able to face the world and live again. I am empowered!
Just a quick note to say thank you for listening to me and helping me to rebuild my life. I feel happy and like I am ready to live again. Life is good. I never thought I would feel this good again. Talking has helped me through the darkness and to clear out the weeds in my life. Now my life looks sunnier and I have much to look forward to. I also have real flowers in my garden now. So it shows things can change.
1990
RSACC was established in 1990 we are the only specialist sexual violence service in County Durham.
1 in 4
1 in 4 women, 1 in 6 children and 1 in 18 men have experienced sexual violence
2267
Office for National Statistics figures show 2,267 sexual offences were recorded by Durham Constabulary in the year to December 2022
