Women’s Voice
Involving women who use our services in how we design and deliver them, is key to our mission of working together to empower, educate and improve their wellbeing.
Listening to women’s voices, stories and lived experiences helps us to understand what really matters and what works for those we support. We aim to listen and adapt and evolve to meet the needs of the women of Stockport.
If you would like to share your experiences, or have ideas about how we can make things better, please get in touch.
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Testimonials and Inspiration
“I had become lost somehow . . . crying in the dark. The Women’s Centre made it easy for me to take responsibility for my journey to get well.”
“The fact that a woman can come to one place and get all the support she needs from that one place. She is not being passed around from pillar to post but can come there to a safe environment where she knows the workers and they help to access the right services or will accompany them to a service to reduce any anxiety. It is the one stop shop approach that really works well.”
“The Women’s Centre; it’s like a desert island, you come in and get that peace and can forget about everything else.”
“It’s a safe place. You don’t experience prejudice here.”
“I am a childhood sexual abuse survivor and found that there isn’t much available (especially to understand how my abuse affected certain areas of my adult development). Having support made a great difference.”
“I didn’t think they could help me. I thought I didn’t need anything. In the end I made it and I was absolutely terrified walking through the door, the unknown. I was made to feel so welcome, shown by a cup of tea that has a heart in it”
“I had become lost somehow . . . crying in the dark. The Women’s Centre made it easy for me to take responsibility for my journey to get well.”
“Therapy gave me the chance to explore an experience that I had blocked out. The counselling enabled me to let go, make sense and move on with my life.”
“I was taught how to start loving myself a little at a time. One of my biggest problems is/was self-harm, I now see how I didn’t deserve any of it, how I was just repeating the cycle of abuse I’d grown up with. Fingers crossed I don’t self-harm again. I’m almost 2 years without. My life is still sad a lot of the time but I don’t give up.
The Centre helped with that. I treasure it.”
“This is a pretty amazing place already!”