Accredited Leading Lights services

There are more than 50 accredited Leading Lights services throughout Great Britain. This resource details each accredited service by geographic region. 

To apply or find out more, please contact leading.lights@safelives.org.uk


The accredited Leading Lights services can be found by region below:

East Midlands

Blue Door – also operating in Yorkshire and Humber

Crossroads Derbyshire

EDAN Lincs – also operating in Yorkshire and Humber

Juno Women’s Aid (formerly WAIS)

Living without Abuse (Leicestershire)

The Elm Foundation (Accommodation services)

The Elm Foundation (Community services)

Women’s Aid Leicestershire Ltd (WALL)

Women’s Aid North East Lincs (WANEL)

Nottinghamshire Women’s Aid

 

East of England

Anglia Care Trust

 

London

Advance

Sign Health – also operating in the South East and remotely across England

Safe Steps

The Her Centre

The Nia Project

Women and Girls Network

 

North East

My Sisters Place – Middlesbrough

Thirteen Group

 

North West

FCWA (Fylde Coast Women’s Aid)

Pankhurst Trust Manchester Women’s Aid

Trafford Domestic Abuse Service (TDAS)

Victim Support Cumbria

Victim Support Lancashire

 

Scotland

CEA

Scottish Borders Council

 

South East

Aurora New Dawn 

Berkshire Women’s Aid

CGL

ECP Bedford 

Lotus Families

MK Act

SATEDA

Sign Health – also operating in London and remotely across England

Southampton IDVA Service

The DASH Charity (formally Berkshire East Women’s Aid)

Victim Support Bedford

Victim Support Hampshire and Isle of Wight

Victim Support Luton

PARAGON Hampshire

PARAGON Isle of Wight

 

South West

Fearless Wiltshire

GDASS (Gloucestershire Domestic Abuse Support Service/Greensquare)

PARAGON Dorset

PARAGON Somerset

 

Wales

Assia

Calan DVS

DASU Idva Service – North Wales

Gorwel

West Wales DAS

 

West Midlands

Glow

New Era (Idva) – Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent

Shropshire Domestic Abuse Service 

 

Yorkshire and Humber

Idas (North Yorkshire)

Idas (Sheffield)

Pennine Domestic Abuse Partnership – PDAP (formerly PDVG)

Rotherham Rise

Women’s Centre Calderdale

 

The Channel Islands

Safer Guernsey

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