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National Charity Award Winners 2016

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...

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Charity Governance Award winners

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...

Charity Governance Awards winners 2017
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The Purple Build Begins!

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...

Big Purple Build ground-breaking event
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National Volunteer of the Year Award!

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...

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Welcome to our website

WINNER, the Preston Road Women’s Centre provides information, support and advice to women in Hull. It is a multi-purpose organization run by women for women offering a wide range of services under one roof. Women can drop into WINNER anytime between 10am to 4pm...

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We have moved!

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...

Exterior view of Preston Road Women’s Centre
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Our national work

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...

Entrance of The Purple House Nursery
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Our response to Covid 19

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...

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