About us
Womankind is a mental health charity run by women for women. Our current services include: counselling, group therapy, specialist sexual violence and abuse services, trauma counselling for refugees and trafficked women (with interpreters), befriending, a specialist Deaf women’s counselling service, and a telephone and webchat helpline. Our befriending service and our helpline are externally accredited and are provided by a current total of 56 trained and supervised volunteers. Since the Coronavirus pandemic began, we have developed online alternatives for our face-to-face services. Now that face-to-face services can resume, we are able to offer women a choice. Our telephone and webchat helpline (which is the first point of contact for women seeking our services) handles around 5,000 calls and 700 emails a year; a third of the callers to it have suffered sexual abuse/ sexual assault or rape, or domestic abuse.
