PEGS  in Shrewsbury, looking after abused parents. Get your boots on for a fundraising walk. - video Dailymotion

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Shrewsbury based PEGS gets no central or local council funding but looks after many many parents who are abused by there own children. We see what there about and learn about the fundraising walk coming up.

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00:00How are you doing Michelle? We're here at PEGS and fantastic work you do, you've got a bit of a

00:04fundraising event coming up haven't you? Yeah that's right, our team are walking

00:0940 miles during the month of May to hopefully help raise up to £4,000

00:14throughout the year. We've got a project of fundraise for PEGS

00:19going on. Yeah and four years is very significant because it's your fourth anniversary

00:23that's right isn't it? That's correct, we were four in March and I can't believe how

00:28much we have grown. I mean it's also really sad when you think about actually

00:31why we're here, but in the space of four years we have seen our referral rate

00:35grow quite significantly to be honest. So a few years ago we were having maybe a

00:40hundred referrals a month, now we are actually having in excess of 500

00:45referrals a month which is incredible. It's mad isn't it? So we've got

00:50parental education growth support, so basically you look after parents that

00:54are being abused by their own children, is that the basic summary? Yeah that's

01:00correct, PEGS, helping parents hold things together. Cheesy but effective right Steve?

01:04Yeah and that is our mission you know, is to provide that safe space and that

01:10sound in board and provide that emotional and practical support that

01:14quite often parents, carers and guardians desperately need, but are sometimes

01:18overlooked and we're not saying that parents or caregivers matter more, we're

01:22saying they matter too and they do. And this form of abuse is really difficult

01:26sometimes to understand, it's really misunderstood and society doesn't even

01:30accept that it exists. But in terms of reality we know that one parent every 19

01:35days is killed in England and Wales by the hands of their child and so really

01:39we need to be starting doing more, we must start normalising the conversations.

01:44And for £4,000 that will help you in what regards, what can you do

01:51with £4,000? So it's really exciting, so £4,000 will actually provide us with

01:57the funds to be able to deliver a bespoke package of support to almost 40

02:03people, again sticking with that four theme, where they can work one-to-one

02:07with our specialist practitioner team, have access to programmes and specific

02:12workshops, join our peer support group and get that much-needed help

02:16that's out there for them. But sadly due to the constraints of us as a

02:20social enterprise you know we need to be raising much-needed funds.

02:24Well that's it, you know you do need the money, I mean you've helped some

02:27speaking at national events haven't you, in regards to what you do and kind of

02:31giving advice and raising awareness. But there's no money from central government

02:35or anything like that, it's kind of, it is fundraising isn't it really?

02:39Exactly, we're very privileged at PEGS, we have had some incredible

02:43opportunities, you know we have become trusted partners of NHS for Safeguarding

02:47for example, we've created an employer-backed Covenant, we've spoke at

02:51conferences up and down the country, we really are so lucky to have those

02:57opportunities. But sadly whenever we do go out and do those events that are

03:01needed, the awareness raising that we're delivering is a must, it sees an influx

03:06of referrals which again then impacts on such a small team, we're a team of 11 and

03:11we do try and provide that support across the UK, but without those funds,

03:15those grants, those donations, our worry and our fear is that PEGS one day may

03:20not be here. Yeah I mean it's worth saying just in the nine days, you've had

03:2499 referrals kind of drop on your doorstep haven't you? Exactly and the

03:28more that the team, the referral team are incredible and as much as they're

03:32getting through them and making those, you know there's much needed responses,

03:35we're having almost double come back in to meet it, so it's really hard going at

03:40the moment. We have a 10 day response time frame to let parents know that you

03:45know we are really busy but you do matter, we will get round to your referral,

03:49we will get back in touch with you but please allow us 10 working days to do so.

03:53But with those referrals now almost a hundred, we might have to look to extend

03:57that which is really sad. Yeah and there's lots of things coming up through

04:01the year in terms of fundraising, we've got a cyclist that we'll be

04:04catching up with at some point, there'll be a nice colourful kind of run event

04:08coming up. So for this one, if anyone wants to get involved and kind of in

04:13regards to the walk and sponsorship and so on, what do they do, how do they get

04:17hold of you? So if they follow us at Peg's Support for example, drop the pages a

04:21message, we can send a fundraising pack. Our incredible social media Queen Thea

04:25has created a pack to help people to look at what they can do to fundraise or

04:30equally maybe fundraising yourself is not your thing but you'd like to donate

04:35and we would welcome that too. You can find out more through our website,

04:39through contacting us directly and we can pop a link on so anything would be

04:43welcome. So thank you very much.

PEGS in Shrewsbury, looking after abused parents. Get your boots on for a fundraising walk.

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