the workplace maybe an employee’s only safe space
Our focus on small and independent businesses – but all are welcome to join with us and participate.
Together We Can Campaign
Philip Gowan Director with 20+ years HR & Change Management
The Business Case
“This is a priority for your business – with research showing that 20% of your team could be affected by some form of domestic abuse. Impacting productivity, morale and absenteeism.
You do not need to become a counsellor or become involved in the domestic matters of your staff.Your duty of care is to be aware, respond and give reasonable support.
This campaign in partnership with the Charity Willows 301 is designed to work together with businesses to achieve this.”
Emma Haselton CEO of Domestic Abuse Charity, Willows 301
There are literally millions of reasons why your duty of care matters
There are 34 million people in the UK workforce – this means upto 7 million people have been, are currently or will be at risk in the future of domestic abuse.
For businesses employing 50 people or less (5.5 million) and unlikely to have HR resources means over ONE MILLION staff.
Together we can – with us supplying help and advice, you by raising awareness with your staff promoting our pratical and educational guides.It is a hard to imagine that your workplace may be the only safe place a member of staff has.
Campaign Mission - Awareness and Education
Our campaign is focused on awareness and education – especially for buisinesses who do not have the benefit of in-house resources such as HR etc. Therefore our solutions are designed to be pragamtic and effective.
Just downloading a policy is a worthy task – but means nothing if not followed through. The business is still at risk of lower productivity as are your staff of injury, both to their mental health and physically.
Awareness
NOTE: all profits on sale of posters will go to the Willows 301 charity who are committed to supporting survivors and their long term recovery..
Display prominately in the workplace – in locations where staff can scan easily without being watched by others doing so:
- Notice Boards
- Toilets
- Rest Rooms
POSTER PACK
Staff can scan & download FREE advice guide-
Five A4 Posters
Education
ESSENTIAL SAFETY GUIDE FOR STAFF IN THE WORKPLACE
Our comprehensive safety guide is FREE for staff to download.
Produced in partnership with Emma Haselton, CEO of the charity, Willows 301, it goes step by step through the essential points they need to consider, thereby reducing risk and protecting themselves and their family.
The graphic below gives some snapshots of the content.
The QR code below takes you to the webpage where your staff will go and download the full guide.
Become a supporter with our FREE membership subscription
Our membership list of businesses means we can keep you upto date with our progress, relevant news on this subject either from us or our network of HR and Legal contacts.
Members also benefit from a 10% discount on their first order of the poster pack. It takes just a couple of minutes and we also send you a copy of our campaign logo for use internally for staff communications.
Events
Let's get together to help break the cycle of domestic abuse
We are planning a series of events and seminars to encourage collaboration that is good for business and advances our efforts to support survivors and prevent domestic abuse.
There will be keynote speakers who will provide updates, expert guidance with case studies.
Enabling your business in recognising and responding to this sensitive issue that affects so many people.
You being open and supportive is not just about the legal risks – but also early intervention through awareness and education could prevent abuse from escalating and even avoiding serious harm to a hard working member of staff.
Do Register so we can keep you informed of all future events.
Exciting New Course in January 2026..
Online Training Course
We will soon be launching our confident programme, an online course to train your staff to be a point of contact for other staff.
- Understanding duty of care responsibilities for your organisation
- Signs of employees experiencing domestic abuse?
- Communication skills required to listen with empathy.
- Signposting and resources available to them outside of work.
- Follow up and if necessary alert company to their problems if permission given
Registered members will automatically get inviting first with an introductory discount..
Keeping productivity and morale high – building long term loyalty and respect.
Training and Consultancy Services
The charity Willows 301 can provide the policies and internal communications tailored to your needs.
In addition to understanding national policies – we also have local knowledge, an extensive network with police forces, counils schools, legal profession and community action groups for local and regional support which we can share with businesses both large and small.
Respond and Support..
Provide practical bespoke training, workshops and coaching services for teams or individuals with our inhouse confident scheme where employees are nominated and volunteers to be first point of contact for colleagues to approach if they need to confide with someone about domestic abuse at home.
On-site Support for Business
Domestic abuse will impact all businesses of any size, unfortunately it does affect millions of women and their families.
It makes good business sense to understand this problem and what and how you can do the best for an employee who maybe a victim.
