Reach Services, NHS Trust 2016-2017
An Evening in Support of The Reach Service
Held at the Florence Nightingale Museum, Guys & St Thomas’ Hospital, BCBN awards £18,059 to the Reach Services for its third year. The delightful evening of engagement and award presentations was held at the enchanting Florence Nightingale Museum.
Considered the most influential woman in Victorian Britain after Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale is famous for being the ‘Lady with the Lamp’ who organised the nursing of sick and wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, her farsighted ideas and reforms having had a big impact on modern healthcare. Guests were treated to a guided tour around the museum which boasts a large historical collection of items, such as the Turkish lantern she used in the Crimean War and spans most of her life. A superb setting and testament to a compassionate and pioneering lady, who was all about caring for others.
On the evening the Reach Services project, based at the hospital, received an award of £18,059 from BCBN for the third year running, since government cuts had pre-empted its possible closure. The Reach Service carries out life-changing work providing assistance to the victims of domestic abuse, disadvantaged people in vulnerable relationships and social support to families in crisis, helping to rebuild their lives.
One in four women experience domestic violence or abuse at some point in their lives and over a hundred women a year lose their lives.
“Projects like REACH are absolutely brilliant, a way in getting help to people when they most need it. It is brilliant that BCBN’s network supports the project which should be in every hospital across the UK”
– Donna Covey CBE, Director, Against Violence & Abuse.
