Journal
What community partnerships teach us about ending domestic violence
The most effective domestic-violence services are local, trusted, and multi-agency. Here is what three years of partnership work have taught us.
ReadUK-registered charity · No. 1202802
Every girl has the rightto choose her own life.
We work to end child marriage in the United Kingdom, and to protect girls and young women from violence, abuse, and coercion.
Credentials
Regulator
Charity Commission
England & Wales · No. 1202802
Focus
Human rights
Child marriage · Domestic abuse · Safeguarding
Based in
Gateshead, UK
Casework delivered nationally
The scale of it
Small charity. Global crisis.
The figures below describe the problem we exist to confront. Our own casework impact is audited separately and reported annually.
12 M
Girls married before 18 each year
UNICEF global estimate
23
Girls forced into marriage every minute
Equivalent of 33,000 per day
1
Child married every 3 seconds
A preventable human-rights crisis
What we do
We stand with girls and young women at the edge of danger.
Preventing child marriage
Through casework, referrals, and community education across England and Wales — reaching girls before decisions are made for them.
Protecting survivors
Supporting girls and young women who have experienced forced marriage, domestic abuse, and so-called honour-based violence.
Changing the conversation
Working with schools, faith leaders, and youth services to name the harm and build protective networks in every community.
Our work
Three programmes. One refusal to look away.
Explore the specific interventions we run and the stories behind how Youth Foundation came to exist.
Programme 01
Ending child marriage
Casework, education, and policy work to stop child, early, and forced marriage across England and Wales.
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Programme 02
Addressing domestic violence
Safe spaces, counselling, helplines, and coordinated legal aid for women and girls escaping abuse.
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Programme 03
Empowering girls
Education, vocational skills, and economic independence — including online-work pathways for young women.
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Our story
A charity born from refusal
How Nada Al-Ahdal's courage in 2013 became a UK-registered human-rights organisation serving England and Wales.
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From the journal
Writing on child rights, safety, and survival.
Join us
Help us end child marriage in the UK.
Every donation funds prevention work, case support, and education. Every message of support reaches the girls we work alongside.