This grant will be used to cover running costs of the user groups in order to extend the user group to wider lochaber, allowing group work to take place, lessening women’s isolation and raising awareness of Domestic Abuse issues. This will enable women to access training and support however rural they may be. The participants have identified that they are keen to undertake arts projects and confiedence building and assertivness trainig and the grant would pay for proffessionals to facilitiate this to the group. The grant would also fund trips and outings for women and their children