Trusts & foundations

You can help us end domestic abuse by making a donation to Rising Sun through your charitable trust or foundation.

We are immensely grateful to the trusts and foundations who generously support our work through one-off or multi-year grants. Many of our specialist services are only possible thanks to the support of independent grant makers who are helping us to end domestic abuse, together.

Together, we can change the lives of hundreds of women and children in east Kent living with domestic abuse and the impacts of this traumatic experience.

If you’d like to support our work through making a grant, or discuss a specific service, we’d love to hear from you.
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The support your services provide makes a real and tangible difference to people’s lives, and it’s been genuinely humbling to see the impact achieved through this project. Your openness, responsiveness, and dedication have made working together an absolute pleasure, and the quality of the reporting and case study really brings that impact to life. Southeastern

Transforming the lives of domestic abuse survivors

Grants play a crucial role in enabling us to provide specialist support for survivors of domestic abuse. They enable us to prevent current and future domestic abuse, provide services that are survivor-centred and trauma-informed and advocate for survivors to ensure their voices are heard and listened to.

Your grant could help us provide 1:1 counselling to children aged 5 to 18 who have lived in a home with domestic abuse, helping them to overcome trauma and empowering them to have happy, healthy futures. It could help us home a pregnant young women fleeing domestic abuse, supporting her to draw on her own strengths and build a safe and independent future for herself and her child. Or, you may want to support our work with survivors who are at risk of homelessness and drug/alcohol misuse to break down barriers with other agencies and ensure they are safe.

Featured partnerships

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BBC Children in Need

We are very proud to receive a three-year grant from BBC Children in Need. Their grant supports our work with adolescent boys, providing dedicated mentoring to help those affected by domestic abuse.

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Comic Relief

We’re honoured to be funded by Comic Relief’s ‘Every Step of the Way: Safe & Supported Beyond Homelessness’ to empower young people, aged 16-24, who have experienced domestic abuse and are at immediate risk of, or experiencing homelessness to access the right support at the right time.

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Colyer Fergusson Charitable Trust

We are grateful to the Colyer Fergusson Charitable Trust for supporting our work with adolescent girls, aged 11-16, who have been impacted by domestic abuse or entering unhealthy relationships. Our work helps reduce risk they may be experiencing whilst educating on healthy relationships and developing their confidence and self esteem. We also empower them to build the confidence to express concern and know how to access support.

Our impact

Rising Sun are the local expert provider of domestic abuse services in Canterbury, Ashford and Folkestone & Hythe. We are embedded within our communities, working in partnership with other agencies and carrying out awareness raising, training, and fundraising activities to work towards our vision of ending domestic abuse.

We are proud to support more than 1,500 survivors every year, improving their safety, wellbeing, stability, relationships and education around domestic abuse and healthy relationships.

Thank you!

Each year, it costs us £1.5 million to provide all of our specialist domestic abuse services to victim-survivors in Canterbury, Ashford and Folkstone & Hythe, and we are so grateful for the support that we receive from all of our generous funders.
  • 29th May 1961 Charity
  • Ashford Community Safety Unit
  • BBC Children in Need
  • Beerling Foundation
  • Brook Trust
  • Canterbury City Council
  • Charles Hayward Foundation
  • Cole Charitable Trust
  • Colyer Fergusson Charitable Trust
  • Comic Relief
  • Furley Page Foundation
  • Happy Days Children’s Charity
  • Henry Smith Foundation
  • John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust
  • Kent & Medway Suicide Prevention and Better Mental Health Team
  • Kent Community Foundation
  • Kent County Council
  • Kent Police and Crime Commissioner
  • Marsh Charitable Trust
  • SALUS
  • Skipton Building Society Charitable Foundation
  • South East Water
  • Sydney Black Charitable Trust
  • The Lawson Trust
  • The Leathersellers
  • The Leigh Trust
  • The Michael and Anna Wix Charitable Trust
  • The Pat Newman Memorial Trust
  • The R S Brownless Charitable Trust
  • The Roger De Haan Charitable Trust
If you’d like to support our work through making a grant, or discuss a specific service, we’d love to hear from you.