Find-A-Friend

Find-A-Friend is operated by the Future Foundation, a registered charity, which began in 2004.

We are a small, local group, working in the Beaconsfield, Maidenhead, Marlow, Slough, Staines, West Drayton, and Windsor areas. 

Government figures show that there are around FIVE THOUSAND men who are abused by their families every year in our target area. Please help us to support people who desperately need our help to rebuild their lives afte...

Family crimes happen far too often. The UK government estimates that some 2.5m people experience bullying of some kind, every year. 

And at least one-third of that number are MEN. That’s more than three-quarters of a million MALE victims of domestic mistreatment!

Family abuse of men is particularly difficult to solve because the survivors are often reluctant to come forward because of outmoded cultural barriers.

They may feel constrained ...

Family abuse is difficult to define, but it usually involves someone exerting inappropriate control over a partner, spouse, or relative.

The abuse can be:

• PHYSICAL – beating up another person, or threatening to do so. Or perhaps threatening to destroy their property or prized possessions.
• MENTAL – convincing someone that they are a bad person, because of some real or imagined issue. Or, for example, “gaslighting” them, to suggest that the...