Survivor Stories - The Maggie Oliver Foundation

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Natural Thinking by Ria Walton

the frondescence of flourishing leaves coming to life the essence of new life for spring the re birth of trees the birds singing their melodies sweet songs of morning nature alive with fresh new growth buds blooming their energy forthwith to bring, the floral...

The Three Girls Workshop

Three Girls Workshop With lockdown having restricted the hosting of events ‘in person’ the Foundation recently ran on online meet-up centred around the BAFTA award winning BBC mini-series Three Girls. The programme (for which Maggie worked as the Programme...

VICTIMS’ COMMISSIONER SAYS CULTURE CHANGE TO SUPPORT AGGRIEVED LONG OVERDUE

By Ryan Hooper, PA Chief Reporter A new, specific law is required to give more rights to those affected by crime, the Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales has said. Dame Vera Baird QC said a change of culture'' was long overdue'' to look after'' victims of...

Survivor Video

“I feel lost, and I don’t know if this pain will ever leave me…..”

I was abused from age 7 to 20. No one in my life knows except doctors/counsellors/helplines or the occasional Samaritan. I carry on every day like I'm absolutely fine. No one would ever know. It's almost like having two lives which makes me very sad. I was...

Poem 2 by Michelle

In these eyes I hold the key, To a life you will never see. Beneath the surface of fake smiles

Loveartpix

My name is Dez (AKA Loveartpix) & I am a self-taught Creative Artist from Manchester. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder over 10 years ago & more recently autism, a diagnosis I am now beginning to come to terms with & better understand. From an early...

Poem by Michelle

I am lost in this darkness, I can't see a light Tormented by my demons, they come worse at night. I am lost in this spiral of unspeakable pain Longing for a rainbow that comes after the rain. My head, it's pounding...

I Came as a Survivor, now I am an Abassador

I initially came to foundation as a survivor that needed help. The only service that was helping me at the time was recovery, I had been laughed at by a few police officers and a member of the council had labelled me she was at that children’s home a home where I was...

I still struggle with the frustrations that the police did a ‘half-assed’ job and that monster is still walking the streets, free to do whatever he likes…..

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my story. It has been almost 11 years since this happened to me, and I have never tried to deal with it. I just tucked it away in a little box in my mind and hoped that it would go away. Recently I took the first steps...

Survivor Video

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“I feel lost, and I don’t know if this pain will ever leave me…..”

I was abused from age 7 to 20. No one in my life knows except doctors/counsellors/helplines or...

I Came as a Survivor, now I am an Abassador

I initially came to foundation as a survivor that needed help. The only service that was helping...

I still struggle with the frustrations that the police did a ‘half-assed’ job and that monster is still walking the streets, free to do whatever he likes…..

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my story. It has been almost 11 years since this...

I have a voice, and finally I want to use it after being quiet for so long…..

I guess I should probably start by introducing myself and giving a bit of background before I...

Everyone has a choice – whether they let their past define them and their future…….

My name is Jade. I am 32 years old and I grew up in and out of care, suffering...

Now I am really really proud to be an Ambassador with The Maggie Oliver Foundation myself…..

The abuse started when I was 5, my previous step father sneaking into my room in the evening...

I won’t tell you my name because it’s irrelevant. It didn’t matter when I was a child, it doesn’t matter now..

My Journey I won’t tell you my name because it’s irrelevant, it didn’t matter when I was a child...

Rise Up…..

Umm-ed and ahh-ed about sharing this because folk are probably fed up of me posting about my life....

I was abused by my grandad between the ages of 5 until I was 10, when he died……

My Story May 2020 I was abused by my Grandad between the ages of 5 until I was 10, when he died. ...

Contacting Maggie and the foundation was one of the best decisions I made.

When I first contacted the Maggie Oliver foundation I was searching high and low for some help,...

Shana was forced into a marriage at 17 due to her being ‘too Westernised’….. but from a victim she became a victor!!

From Pain to Power! A journey of ACE’s, abuse, hopelessness, gangs, and pity. Shana was born into...

Daisy is like one of my own kids now. I look at her and feel like a proud mum…

I first found Daisy about four years ago. Homeless, sleeping on a couch in a random front room...

Quite remarkably the Child was criminalised herself….

This is an extract from an actual Letter of Claim sent in by one brave Survivor who wishes her...

He took away my childhood, my virginity, my trust and a lot more..but it no longer defines who I am!

This is extremely hard to talk about, still, to this day ..... but I want to try and share my...

Then in 2018, after all those years, the police came to me, and so now they believed me…..

I was raised by my grandparents and went into care in my teens. I was as far removed from the...

I shared a small detail of what was happening to me when I was really young, but it was ignored..

I always knew it made me feel uncomfortable and it wasn’t something I wanted, but from the early...

Social services was responsible for me and they failed me time and time again…

Hi my name is Claire Im a born survivor of historical sexual childhood abuse grooming and child...

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