About
DAWN was founded in 1993, as a voluntary organisation by a group of women from varying professional backgrounds. It was converted to a charitable trust and registered with the UK Charities Commissioner in May 2000.
Funded through both private and public donation and grants, DAWN’s mission is two fold: To provide emotional and mental health support �" through provision of one-to-one counselling support delivered in a gender-specific women only space, as well as, a gender-neutral space to support everyone whether men, women, couples or families.
To provide social inclusion and wellbeing support for women �" through provision of access to information, advocacy and advisory support and, creation of educational, cultural and recreational opportunities to alleviate social isolation and foster a sense of belonging to improve the quality of their lives.
DAWN provides women-only “safe space” in order to safeguard confidentiality, security and anonymity of the women the organisation supports. There is a particular focus on reaching out to the socially isolated, hard-to-reach women and girls from BAME communities who face multiple barriers in their access to mainstream emotional and mental health services.
Product and Services
The Compassionate Mind Project provides awareness initiatives across life’s stages, offering vital support for early childhood development, ADHD, dyslexia, teenage challenges and family dementia care
Market
Women needing safe women only spaces Families
Marketing and Publicity
Through community noticeboards, current clients and social media
Competition
The Compassionate Mind Project is a unique concept because it will build on DAWN’s brand of cultural understanding, providing services in the language which a client is most comfortable in using.
Reason For Applying_
To fund a pilot of this innovative project to meet needs identified in current clientele
Staff and Management
Rani Kalha chairs the organisation and is supported by a professional team of counsellors, qualified multilingual individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. DAWN is an organisational member of The British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (Registration No: 00219863) and currently delivers counselling in the following languages: Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Urdu, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Cantonese, Tamil, Bengali, Sylheti, Somali, Romanian, Polish, and a basic command of: German, Russian and Arabic.