The battle for funding to protect vulnerable women has been highlighted after a city charity earned high praise on the national stage for its work. Hebron Housing, based in Thorpe St Andrew, launched in April 2023 and supports women who have faced challenges and are feeling forgotten, desperate, frightened, hopeless and overwhelmed. The trust works to provide housing and a diverse range of support for vulnerable women from around the county and beyond, with two asylum seekers from Ukraine and Eritrea currently living in one of the charity's homes.
Collecting Hebron Housing's awards were, from left, tenant Emma, senior supported housing officer Lou Henman, Chief executive Emma Pawsey, supported housing officer Clare Pretty and manager Sara Garrard (Image: Hebron Housing) Emma Pawsey, chief executive of Hebron Housing, said: "We currently have 15 beds across four houses but would love to keep growing by one or two houses each year until we have between 10 and 15 homes. "Women come here to move on from what they have experienced and we help them progress to the next stage of their lives. "It is going really well and we have been at full capacity since autumn last year.
" Hebron House is based in Stanley Avenue in Thorpe St Andrew (Image: Hebron Housing) Tenants are referred to the service from all over Norfolk for support and have access to housing, courses, IT help and a community as they are helped to return to independent living. They also help women to get back into work, wit.
