We work with young people to educate communities about sexual assault and abuse.
Heading up our mission to educate young people and spread awareness about the impact of sexual violence, is SARAC’s Young Person’s Service Lead Caroline Fotheringham. As a part of ourcharity’s mission, Caroline works in educational settings such as schools and colleges in Burton Upon Trent and the surrounding areas, with the aim to use education […]
SARAC awarded with The Queens Award for Voluntary Service
SARAC awarded with The Queens Award for Voluntary Service. For the last 25 years SARAC has been offering support and advice to anyone in the area who has been affected by sexual abuse or rape trauma. Volunteers and professionals have been providing help via a phoneline and through face-to-face therapy sessions, as well as working […]
Welcome to Our New CEO – Catherine Miles
Hello from me I feel deeply privileged to be appointed CEO in August of this year. The SARAC we have today is very different from its humble beginnings of over 20 years ago. Sexual Abuse was very much a taboo subject. One of the founders Valerie Burton and her colleague’ s told us that no […]
SARAC News – Alternative Therapy (Tribal Drumming)
SARAC is proud to always be looking for new, engaging ways of spreading awareness and helping our community and service users. This week we were fortunate enough to obtain funding that allowed us to offer alternative therapy, in the form of a tribal drumming session! We hosted it at the Youth Club at Winshill Neighbourhood […]
TV Coverage
Coronation Street has tackled subjects throughout the years that are hard to acknowledge, murder, rape, domestic violence (male and female), stalking, teenage pregnancy etc., and now grooming. Grooming is when a manipulative person, lulls someone else into their control by playing on their emotions. Sarac have emotionally supported young people over the last year that […]
“No news is good news!”
When asked to write for this blog, I immediately wanted to help and empower others to become survivors of abuse and to do so positively. However, to pretend that I remain positive all the time would not be a true reflection of who I am or what it means to be a survivor. Today for […]
‘Victim’
I never quite realised how much I hated that word until recently. It is one that implies a sense of helplessness, weakness and a subjection to some sort of misfortunate event out of one’s control. However, on commencing a series of emotional support sessions with sarac, that is what I was; not yet a survivor, […]
Is medication the answer?
When I first had emotional support, I refused to take medication. I believed that if I was taking pills, that was it for me; I would lose the only bit of control that I had – my ability to regulate my own feelings and emotions and this would mean that I would have to admit […]
