Financial Abuse.
Helping you find a way through.
Financial abuse can leave you feeling trapped.
We help you understand what is happening to help you find your next step.
The REACH Framework brings trusted information and practical support into one clear pathway.
It can help you:
recognise financial and economic abuse;
create more safety and choice;
find help with money, debt, housing and benefits;
understand your rights;
rebuild your financial confidence.
You do not have to follow the stages in order, it’s not always a linear pathway. Start with the stage that best describes where you are today.
The REACH Framework
Five stages that will help you move through through this process, back to independence.
RECOGNISE
Understand what may be happening.
ESCAPE
Begin creating greater safety and choice.
ANCHOR
Make your day-to-day like more stable.
CLAIM
Rebuild your financial security, your identity and reclaim your independence.
HEAL
Build confidence, heal and start planning your future.
If you require financial assistance, check out the Grants & Resources Directory, to find out what might be available for you.
4.1M
4.1 million UK women experienced economic abuse from a current or former partner in the previous 12 months.
8.7M
people in the UK experienced economic abuse in their lifetime.
*Refuge / Co-operative Bank, 2020 population survey
£14.4Bn
estimated personal debt in the UK attributable to economic abuse (Refuge / Co-operative Bank, 2020)
~ £85 BN
An inflation-adjusted estimate based on the Home Office’s assessment of the cost of domestic abuse in England and Wales in the year ending March 2017.
Home Office Research Report 107, 2019; inflation-adjusted by the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, 2024
A framework built by survivors for survivors.
Trauma impairs our ability to think clearly and when we are on the receiving end of financial or domestic abuse, some days it can be difficult to put one foot in front of the other. We often lose hope because we don’t believe there is anyone who can help us. But this is not true. This framework has been created for people who don’t know how to leave, who want to know what life could look like on the other side or have left, but need help finding their way through the recovery process.
