It's easy to access our services at Surviving United and best of all they're free. Just pop along to one of our Drop-ins or walking groups, or you can use the number given to get in contact with Angela to arrange a phone session.

Mobile Number: 07900 391412

We here at Surviving United are a local community peer group, set up by and for survivors of sexual, domestic or psychological abuse. We are open to anyone regardless of race, colour, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age and last but not least disability.

Latest Notice:

"Good afternoon, 

It is with deep regret that Surviving United will no longer be offering the 1-2-1 service. Due to great demand, it is, at this moment in time, too much pressure for one person to do along side 11 groups and the internal running of Surviving United. 

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Running Surviving United on my own is extremely difficult and with more survivors coming forward I am struggling with the work load and finding it difficult to cope with. I am really sorry but as a survivor I also have to look after my mental health. I hope you understand."

                                                                      Angie Marnoch

                                                                      Co-Founder

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At Surviving United, we are fortunate enough to run a multitude of different groups.

From the usual group drop-ins to Arts and crafts, beauty and reggae sessions and last but not least our walking groups.

Our groups are gender led (so for female groups we have a female facilitator and vice versa) drop-ins at both The Kirkley Centre & Great Yarmouth Library in Great Yarmouth.

These meetings are purely for that specific gender, you don't have to stay for the whole session, and refreshments are provided.

Group Drop-in information:

The Kirkley Centre Groups

The Kirley Centre, 154 London Road South. Lowestoft. NR33 0AZ

Women's Groups

• 1st & 3rd Monday of each month from 6pm until 8pm

• 2nd & 4th Monday of each Month from 10am until 12pm.

Men's Groups

• Last Friday of each month from 10am until 12pm.

Walking Groups

Below you will find the information for our popular walking groups, children and pets are more than welcome to join us.

The Kirkley Centre

Meet at The Kirkley Centre for the following groups:

• Female Group - 2nd Friday of the month from 10am until 12pm

• Male group - 3rd Friday of the month from 10am until 12pm.

Market Row, Great Yarmouth.

We meet at Market Row, in Great Yarmouth for the following groups:

• Female group - 3rd Friday of the month from 10am until 12pm​

• Male group - To be confirmed.

Telephone consultations

If you feel at anytime you need to chat to one of our advisors then please call the number below, 07900 391 412.

This number is only active Monday-Friday.

This is a FREE service, we're funded by grants and fundraising.

*For the foreseeable future we no longer offer one-to-one sessions. We apologise for any problems this causes.

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 Our Memories 

TESCO 
Bags of Help Grant

Surviving United would like to thank Tesco and all the public that popped those little blue coins in our collection box which has enabled us to start our new peer support group P.A.F.S (Partners & Family of Survivors).

Thanks to Suffolk Community Foundation, we have been able to fund our extra day support group, twice monthly. This will enable those survivors who need our support but are unable to attend the evening group a place for them to attend and feel safe.

LD Rope Trust

We would like to thank the LD Rope trust for their generous support for funding our office/hub, without this financial support there would be no one to one or day group support in a private setting for survivors to attend. 

Surviving United would like to thank the National Lottery - The BIG Lottery Fund, for supporting our cause through the last two years. This funding has made it possible to run both separate, male and female groups in Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth.

Surviving United's Past.

Surviving United was formed by Angela Marnoch, Lisa Ambrose (both survivors of childhood sexual abuse from family members) and Lucy Attelsey. We originally met at a survivors group in Norwich Norfolk. Due to work commitments, Angie was no longer able to attend so we spoke about setting a group up in Lowestoft.

Angie had struggled for many years looking for help and support and Angie wanted other survivors to be able to have what she knew she needed so much. We started out self-funding in January 2016 in Kessingland Church vestry which was free until we got funding through Community Action Suffolk to start up at The Kirkley Centre which then grew to cover Great Yarmouth at the Victim Support building.

 "Some of our survivors have been here from the start and to  watch them grow, become more confident, learn to set their own boundaries and start to smile makes all what we do so very worthwhile.  There will always be bad days but as time goes on these slowly become less and less until the better days take over." 

Present

We at Surviving United just keep trying to provide support and advice to those in need as often as possible. We're constantly trying to raise enough money to keep these groups going, and we accomplish this through funding and fundraising.

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We've recently raised enough money to open a support group aimed at the partners and family members of those supporting people who have been abused, we couldn't have done this without the generosity of all the kind people who donated via JustGiving, so thank you from the bottom of our hearts. 

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We now have a small team of volunteers, each of whom have their own special skills that allow us to keep running each month. These range from our Fundraisers all the way to our Social Media Guru. If you would like to help us by volunteering your time, please use the contact form to let us know! 

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Future

We have a very simple dream for Surviving United, and that's to be there when you need us.

To be that rock when you need someone to talk to. We want to help as many people as possible, 

the families of survivors, friends and most importantly the survivors themselves.

Contact Us

The Kirkley Centre, 154 London Rd S,
Lowestoft, NR33 0AZ,
SurvivingUniteduk@Gmail.com

Mobile Number: 

07900 391412

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