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Support our work
Break the Silence provides free, trauma-informed support for people affected by childhood sexual abuse in East and North Ayrshire. Your donation will help us continue this vital work.
Our service is survivor-centred, professionally accredited and shaped by lived experience. By donating, you help keep this trusted service going – one that offers choice, high standards and lasting support for survivors and their families.
Please donate now to offer this opportunity to more childhood survivors.
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Why donate?
It’s no secret that the funding landscape is currently very challenging, with many charities facing increased pressure and uncertainty. Your donation helps us sustain a trusted, specialist service that survivors of childhood trauma in our local community rely on.
It supports counselling sessions as well as the experienced team, professional standards and safe environment that make delivery of this work possible.
With your help, we can reduce waiting times, respond to increasing demand and ensure support is available when it is needed most.
Donate now
If you are able to, please make a donation today. Your support helps ensure that survivors in North and East Ayrshire can access free, specialist support without barriers, now and in the future.
Unrestricted donations are especially valuable, allowing us to direct funds where they are most needed and respond flexibly to demand for our services.
Other ways to donate
Every gift, no matter the size, makes a real difference. Your support helps us deliver high-quality therapy and support that helps traumatised individuals heal, grow, and make the most of their lives.
Payroll Giving
Ever heard of Payroll Giving? It’s one of the quickest and easiest ways to support Break the Silence monthly directly from your payslip. Next time you are at work, ask your HR or payroll team if they offer Payroll Giving. It’s a small conversation that makes a massive difference to our work.
- Simple and quick to set up
- Secure and tax efficient
- Convenient monthly giving
Fundraising
Fancy taking on a new challenge and raising money for Break the Silence at the same time? Whether it is a one-off goal like training for a marathon or hosting a coffee morning, or pledging regular support like a proportion of money raised from busking at the weekend or from your weekly football club, these thoughtful gifts help us safeguard the continuity of our support for survivors of childhood abuse, reduce their waiting times to start therapy, and deliver a trauma-informed service that helps them bring about post-traumatic healing and growth.
Legacy Giving
Ever considered leaving money to charity in your will? We would be very grateful if you consider leaving a small donation to Break the SIlence. This gift could help ensure trusted, specialist, trauma-informed support for future survivors, supporting their healing and growth. In Scotland, you can do this by speaking to a solicitor or will-writing professional and telling them our name, address and Scottish charity number (SC036263), the amount you would like to leave, and any preference you have about how it should be used. A solicitor will record your wishes clearly and legally.
