ACVO News March 2022

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ACVO News
March 2022
NEWS
Join Grampian
Women's Aid
for their online
training
seminar on
International
Women's Day -
March 8th
Help Mental Health Aberdeen
with their mission
to break the stigma
by donating your unwanted
goods to new Union Street shop
Can you help Mental Health Aberdeen (MHA) with their mission to break the
stigma, by supporting the launch of our their new shop on Union Street?
About the new venture, the team at MHA said "We’re over the moon to be
opening our first ever retail venture in the centre of Aberdeen and we need your
help to get off to the best possible start!
"Do you have any clothes or shoes you don’t wear anymore? Small items that you
are replacing? CD’s or video games you don’t use anymore or anything that you
think someone else would appreciate? If so, they why not donate these items to
MHA, a local charity that supports local people and the local community?
Up to 90% of domestic abuse survivors
cite having experienced economic or
financial abuse by their intimate partner.
Economic abuse is recognised in the new
Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018,
however, it remains a lesser known form
of domestic abuse and often goes
unidentified despite its serious and longlasting
consequences for the survivor.
For International Women's Day 2022, on
8th of March, Grampian Women's Aid
are hosting a training webinar on this
often unrecognised form of abuse.
The session will cover the following
learning outcomes:
Define and understand the difference
between economic and financial abuse;
Identify different forms of economic
abuse and their impact on survivors;
Draw upon best practice examples in
supporting survivors of economic abuse.
Find out more and book your place at
https://bit.ly/3sstf2Y
"If you’d like to donate your goods, you can get more information on where and
when to drop them off by contacting us on fundraiser@mhaberdeen.org.uk and
we’ll be delighted to help you!"
MHA has been helping people in Aberdeen for over 70 years through their
programmes of support and have recently moved to their new Union Street
premises where the shop is also based. They are also on the lookout for
volunteers to help with the shop and anyone interested can get in touch via the
the email provided above.
More information about the organisation, and how you can lend a hand through
fundraising to support their vital work, can be found at mha.uk.net