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The Hollie Gazzard Trust is doing amazing work dedicated to raising the issue of domestic abuse and stalking. Unfortunately, domestic abuse is often a hidden crime that is not reported to the police. We hope to raise awareness of coercive control and encourage victims and their families to recognise this behaviour and take appropriate action.
The Hollie Gazzard Trust is a local Gloucestershire based charity with nationwide reach with a goal to prevent other victims and families having to experience what Hollie and her family had to go through.
In 2014, Hollie Gazzard, was a hair stylist working at a beauty salon in Gloucester. She had started dating Asher Maslin the previous year but had ended the relationship after he had been violent to her. 4 days later, at just 20 years old Hollie was stabbed to death in the Gloucester hair salon where she was working.
When Hollie first started dating Maslin, she and her family had no idea of his background. Unbeknownst to them, he had been arrested 23 times starting with domestic abuse and escalating to grievous bodily harm. Had Hollie known what he was really like she would never have wanted to get involved with him.
Following her horrific murder, her family – father Nick, mother Amanda and sister Chloe –wanted something positive to come out of losing Hollie. This spurred them to set up the Trust not only to help other victims but to raise funds to support young people. Hollie had suffered from domestic abuse, violence and stalking in the time leading up to her death and tackling these issues is at the forefront of the work they do.
The aim of the Hollie Gazzard Trust is to help save lives by building individual and community resilience to domestic abuse. They achieve this in three ways:
To better understand the scale of the problem, we have taken a snapshot of the abuse statistics year ending March 2021. We must always remember that with domestic abuse being a hidden crime, we can never fully gauge the true extent of the problem.
Domestic abuse prevalence and trends, England and Wales: year ending March 2021
The police recorded a total of 1,459,663 domestic abuse-related incidents and crimes in England and Wales in the year ending March 2021.
Of these, 845,734 were recorded as domestic abuse-related crimes, an increase of 6% from the previous year, representing 18% of all offences recorded by the police in the year ending March 2021.
Estimates from our most recent Crime Survey for England and Wales year ending March 2020 show 5.5% of adults aged 16 to 74 years (2.3 million) experienced domestic abuse in the 12 months prior.
As a Gloucestershire based charity, Hughes Paddison feel our fundraising will provide something great for the local community as well as all families affected by domestic abuse across the country.
There are loads of exciting fundraising events happening in 2022, all of which can be found on the Hollie Gazzard Trust – Events page, below are just a few ideas, but of course you can always create your own as well.
We are very keen to get started with events, and raising as many funds as possible for the charity, so if you’d like to join us why not drop our fundraising team an email.
We’d really appreciate any support, either through donating or sponsoring our team in the many fundraising events.
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