Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page for SARSVL - Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds

When SARSVL was first forming I trained as a volunteer. I found compassion to support callers speak their experiences out loud. Sometimes I was sad or angry but I always found strength in what we did. This volunteering also gave me the amazing opportunity to meet many inspiring women at the organisation! 

A few years later I was raped by someone I trusted. The psychological impact was huge, it made my life impossible to cope with, it made the birth of my baby hugely traumatic, it burdened me with long lasting mental health problems. But I am surviving and know lots of you are too. 

Services like SARSVL are ones I have used to help me process and get through this trauma. Since their launch they have extended their services to include face to face as well as telephone support and interpreted support. These services are vital but are constantly being squeezed by funding cuts. 

I tried running in 2013 and hurt myself (because of a previous injury) and my doctor told me running isn't for me. Well, fuck that, let's go do impossible things! Everytime we do impossible things we learn a new way to make things that seem impossible - like surviving rape - feel possible, and we feel hope. 

Please get behind me, either with a donation, some moral support, or share my fundraising campaign with your friends and family. And if it comes to it you might have to literally get behind me and push me round the race course! 

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