Make the World a Refuge

Four years after our successful collaboration with Refuge, we’ve launched a new campaign, featuring the powerful voice of renowned actor Billie Piper. The campaign sheds light on the many subtle and insidious ways that abuse can manifest in relationships—from tracking a survivor’s phone or isolating them from their family and friends—and highlights the crucial role Refuge plays in supporting survivors.

Violence and abuse against women show up in so many ways. But so does Refuge. In the two-minute film for social media and cinema, directed by BAFTA-winner Georgi Banks-Davies, Billie Piper lends her voice to the untold stories of domestic abuse, giving survivors a platform whilst protecting their anonymity.

The creative work follows our impactful 2020 collaboration with Refuge, The Naked Threat. That campaign urged the UK government to make threatening to share explicit images of others an illegal offence—a form of abuse often used to control and manipulate women. As a result, the government introduced legislation making such threats a crime.