We believe, listen and support.

Our aim is to provide a safe space for survivors of sexual violence across

East Kent. We offer access to therapeutic and practical support to help

people rebuild their lives.

East Kent Rape Crisis vision and mission is to create a community where women and girls are free from all forms of sexual violence and to achieve this within a feminist, equalities and human rights framework. In addition, we provide services for male survivors. We provide help/ hope and healing to all those impacted by sexual violence and cultivate a safe, non-violent community.

We have a "By and For Women Only" pathway and women-only safe spaces in all our venues.

It is our mission to:

• Respond to and promote the needs of those who have suffered sexual violence through the empowerment feminist model of work.
• Reduce the impact of sexual violence by support, educating, informing and advocating for all survivors.
• Challenge oppression in all forms.
• Challenge societal attitudes that condone and collude with sexual violence.

EKRCC Anti-racism Commitment Statement

At East Kent Rape Crisis Centre, we are committed to intersectional feminism, anti-oppression, and anti-racism. Racism inflicts profound harm on individuals and society. Racism causes immense harm, affecting mental health, perpetuating inequalities.

• We will begin this with our own organisation, the issue of racism exists within the Violence Against Women and Girls sector and in the wider sector.

• We will develop our practices and alongside our sister agencies within the feminist movement of Rape Crisis England and Wales.

• We will act, putting in time and resource to work towards racial equity.

• We will prioritise this work and commit to our action plan.

• It will be the responsibility of all members of EKRCC to create an anti-racist feminist organisation.

• The Trustee Board and Leadership team oversees the strategic direction of this work to ensure timelines of implementation and the action plan is completed.