Thank you very much for donating to support the work of the Femicide Census. You should have received confirmation of the transaction directly from paypal but we would like to add a personal note of our own.
We started working together in 2013, and launched the Femicide Census in 2015. The project was unfunded but with pro-bono support from Freshfields, we sent out Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to all police forces and then built up information from media searches, putting the information into a bespoke website developed for us by Deloitte. A generous donation in 2015 enabled us to employ our first part-time researcher. In 2018, we were able to expand the team and began the work of preparing for our 10-year report which was released in November 2020. In 2025, thanks to another donation, we’ve been able to devote working hours to the Femicide Census ourselves, rather than squeeze the project in between our professional and personal lives.
At first, we were not formally constituted but with time, and because we were committed to developing the project, it became clear that there would be benefits to this. We registered as a limited company (2019), converting to a Community Interest Company (CIC) in 2021, and then successfully registering as a charity (Charitable Incorporated Organisation, registered charity number 1209549) in August 2024.
Researching information about the killing of women by men is not easy. In addition to on-going support from Freshfields and Deloitte, our small team of researchers do an incredible job and we are indebted to their work. The process of sending out FOIs is repeated annually and then building upon the information we receive is an on-going process. In addition, new cases come to light and as information about the women already in the census and the men who killed them changes, these must be updated too.
Wanting things to be different – and to play a part in creating change for the better – is part of the motivation for most people involved in work to address men’s violence against women and girls, but to solve a problem, you need to first be able to say what it is. The Femicide Census is a unique collaboration of corporate support, specialists in responses to men’s violence against women and feminist activism. We could not do this work without you. Your donation will help us continue to research and analyse men’s fatal violence against women and girls in the UK.
Thank you for helping us commemorate women and girls and build information that can be used to create change.
Karen Ingala Smith and Clarrie O’Callaghan
