Our innovative Safe as Houses scheme has attracted national recognition and praise in the form of a National Charity Award for Grantmaking and Funding. These national prestigious awards showcase organisations demonstrating excellence in ten areas of operation and...

Success at UK Charity Governance Awards 2017 On May 24th 2017 at a Gala reception at the beautiful Clothworkers House in central London, we were awarded a national charity governance award for “Embracing Opportunity and Harnessing Risk”, recognising the confident...

The Purple Build got off to a great start this week with a ground breaking ceremony on site, marking the start of a nine month long construction process to provide a new, environmentally sustanable larger building from which to provide our services. Local...

Our Trustee and Treasurer, Lisa Hilder won the prestigious Volunteer of the Year Award at the Third Sector Excellence Awards last month. Lisa was nominated by the staff and volunteers and the centre in recognition of her work to raise funds and develop services at...

Only 97 days to go before our new purpose-built women’s centre is finished. We can hardly wait!

After five years of planning, talking to our service users, staff and volunteers and a mammoth effort in fundraising, we opened our doors today in our new women’s centre. Read all about it in the Hull Daily Mail via the link below...

We have been working recently with Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC) and Big Society Capital to develop new ways of funding housing work for women fleeing violence and abuse We co-produced a new loan finance product with SASC which helped us to draw down £2...

In light of the current Covid-19 advice from the Government Purplehouse will continue to provide services, however most of this will be done over the phone. Please contact us on 01482 790310 we will take some details and may have to ring you back. If you have a...

We have been working with Big Society Capital and a range of grant funders, including most recently the Clothworkers Foundation, the John Laing Trust and the Mercers  to support women’s sector organisations across the UK to become more financially and operationally...