As former banker, Anameeka has a background in education, training, and resource management. She entered the community charity space in 2018 and have since worked with several organisations including NHS, PCC and other funded projects. She is passionate about art and culture, established music group Musafir, dance group RituRanga, theatre group Natok Company and catering team Sweet Bengal. Anameeka founded Bengali Sanskriti Club Peterborough and The Culture Door CIC and has also worked as Research Champion with several universities for community health-based projects and Community Champion.

Linda Huskisson set up the Charity Living Keys, in 2021 during the lock down, as she really saw a need for further support and help for victims of abuse. Services include: running free courses, having a drop in service, workshops on mental health and wellbeing, debt management and more. Linda won an award last year “Making a difference” volunteer award from Cambridgeshire Radio.  She will also be attending a tea party at Buckingham Palace after being nominated for the Kings Award.

Local charitable group with the aim of to make a difference to the lives of women and girls around the world through enablement, empowerment and education.

Christine Graham has worked for 25 years in the community safety and domestic abuse sector. Most recently she has chaired/authored over seventy Domestic Homicide Reviews nationally. As she draws to retirement, she has turned her focus back to the city that is her home. Christine has been a member at Bretton Baptist Church for nearly 40 years and is currently their Safeguarding Trustee. Christine has also been volunteering for Restored and working as a freelance trainer for them. Bretton Baptist Church is now working towards becoming a Restored Beacon Church (with the launch on 18th May). This accreditation recognises that our church will not tolerate abuse but will provide a safe refuge for survivors, journey with them on their road to recovery and demonstrate God’s deep love for them. The support we offer is to anyone, whatever their faith or none but we do know, from research undertaken by Restored that 1 in 4 people in churches will be experiencing, or have experienced, domestic abuse. Whilst many of the issues they face are common to all survivors, being a person of faith can bring its own specific challenges, and we are committed to supporting survivors.

Temporary Detective Chief Superintendent Sherrie Nash has been a Police Officer within Cambridgeshire Constabulary for 23 years.  As a career detective, she has worked predominantly within the world of vulnerability and safeguarding from both the perspective of investigations and securing convictions against those who cause harm through to policy and strategy to protect our communities. As Head of Protecting Vulnerable People department, she held a portfolio across the vulnerability world as well as strategic lead for Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Violence Against Women and Girls.   Sherrie has been awarded numerous commendations for her investigative work and in 2021 at the Safer Cambridgeshire awards, won the ‘Commitment to Safeguarding’ and ‘Grand Prix Employee of the Year’ categories.  Sherrie is now temporary Head of Crime and Vulnerability for Cambridgeshire Police.  As a female senior leader and role model within Policing, Sherrie takes pride in mentoring and coaching officers and Police Staff to create an environment of equal opportunity.

Mandy began working in the domestic abuse sector in 2004 for the Probation Service.  Her first role was facilitating Perpetrator Programmes in Prisons and the Community.  Mandy spent the next 14 years at Probation in various roles, all focussing on domestic abuse. During this time Mandy wrote victim and Perpetrator Programmes, policies on domestic abuse, and ended her career with Probation as Deputy Director for Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.  Mandy then progressed into the third sector working for Refuge in Cambridgeshire, and then moved on to oversee several VAWG services in London.  Mandy is now the CEO at Peterborough Women’s Aid. PWA deliver services including refuge accommodation, group work, live chat, and specialist community projects.

Guide Dogs

Rachael trained to be an interpreter and graduated in 2017 when she joined CDA as an admin assistant. Alongside qualifying as a Registered Sign Language Interpreter, she qualified Care Act Advocate (2019) and IDVA (2021). Her passion is to address the inequalities faced by people in the Deaf community and aim to strive to provide equal services to the deaf community rather than a lesser or delayed service. Her personal drive was ignited when she recognised that GCSE science was not accessible with restricted communication support workers offered to a Deaf friend. Her desire to continue to address these inequalities seemed to match perfectly with the values at CDA to improve Deaf people’s well-being, health and improve equalities.

The Domestic Abuse Support Service (DASS) works to understand the needs and wishes of the individual and develop appropriate support and safety plans. We offer help with issues around home security where appropriate, accessing benefits and signposting or referral to specialist services. DASS also offer drop-in services in partnership with other specialist services across the county.

Heather Birch is the Centre Manager for Peterborough Rape Crisis, where she leads the delivery and development of vital services for survivors of sexual violence. Heather is committed to ensuring that every aspect of the organisation’s work is survivor-led, shaped by the voices, and lived experiences of those it supports. Her overarching goal is to work towards a society free from sexual violence, while actively challenging and eliminating victim blaming in all its forms.

Raham Project

St Johns Church

Open to ALL Women in the local community