Domestic violence has risen by almost 50 per cent in Walsall over the last five years.<\/p>\n
After a long battle for funds, the charity have decided to remain active in the community but close their offices.<\/p>\n
A statement from the Walsall DV Project Coordinator, Sheri Rogers,<\/p>\n
“It is with great sadness that I have to inform you that Walsall Domestic Violence Forum (WDVF) will be closing down on May 4th 2016.<\/p>\n
From myself & the team at WDVF I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the tremendous support that you have given the Forum both personally & through your support for us on Facebook & Twitter.<\/p>\n
We have fought long & hard over many years to secure the necessary funds to continue our support services for victims of DV. However, sadly we have now lost that battle.<\/p>\n
It has been a real honour to work with such an amazingly committed & passionate team of people within this wonderful charity.<\/p>\n
WDVF was formed in 1992, & became a registered a registered charity in 2005.<\/p>\n
The Domestic Violence Forum has provided so much, to those that have been affected by the heinous crime of domestic abuse.<\/p>\n
Thank you ALL for your support, from myself & everyone at WDVF “.<\/p>\n
Sheri Rogers.<\/strong><\/p>\n Project Coordinator WDVF. (1999-2016).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Domestic violence has risen by almost 50 per cent in Walsall over the last five years. After a long battle for funds, the charity have decided to remain active in the community but close their offices. A statement from the Walsall DV Project Coordinator, Sheri Rogers, “It is with great sadness that I have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}