The charity plays a vital role coordinating, influencing and campaigning for effective responses to domestic abuse and supports a network of 36 Women's Aid services across Scotland delivering crucial support including refuge, counselling and outreach at a local level.
The WLM in Scotland first emerged in Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews, Dundee, Aberdeen, and Lerwick.
These campaigns included lobbying for equal pay, spray-painting over offensive advertising, and demonstrating for women's right to choose.
By 1976 it was agreed there was a need for an organising body to coordinate the growing network of groups, and so Scottish Women's Aid was founded the same year.
During the last 40+ years, Women's Aid has marched, protested, lobbied, and campaigned with the ultimate aim of ending domestic abuse.
[4] In 2018, Scottish Women's Aid won their campaign for the introduction of legislation that criminalises psychological domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour.