ALICE RUGGLES TRUST
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Mission Statement
The Alice Ruggles Trust exists to raise awareness of stalking (including coercive control), to ensure that relevant legislation is effective and adhered to, and to bring about lasting improvements in the management of perpetrators and the protection of victims. We aim to prevent what happened to Alice happening to others, by raising awareness of coercive control and stalking and their dangers; working to ensure that stalking offences result in immediate action both to protect the victim and to deal effectively with the perpetrator; providing education and training; campaigning for improved legal measures; and supporting relevant research.
About This Cause
Alice Ruggles was murdered in 2016, aged just 24, by an ex-boyfriend following a relentless campaign of stalking. Stalking is a seriously distressing and potentially life-threatening crime. This needs to be recognised by everyone. Stalking behaviour must result in immediate action both to protect the victim and to deal effectively with the perpetrator. The Alice Ruggles Trust exists to raise awareness of stalking (including coercive control), to ensure that relevant legislation is effective and adhered to, and to bring about lasting improvements in the management of perpetrators and the protection of victims. Since the Trust came into existence in 2017, we have taken part in numerous professional training events throughout England and Wales involving the police, CPS, judiciary, probation officers, domestic abuse case workers, and social and health services. We have also been involved in training initiatives in Greece and Australia, as well as with British Forces Germany. In October 2019 we held our first Trust conference, in Leicester, which brought together a wide range of professional practitioners and academics to discuss best practice in understanding and tackling stalking. It also formed part of a series of events following on from the publication of the Domestic Homicide Review into Alice’s death. We campaigned in support of the Stalking Protection Act 2019, which legislates for Stalking Protection Orders, introduced in January 2020. We will continue to campaign for a Serial Perpetrator Register. Raising public awareness is a priority. To this end we have taken part in various TV documentaries as well as numerous radio programmes, podcasts and social media campaigns. These have reached millions of people across the UK and around the world. In addition we have made regular contributions to news items about stalking on both national and local media. A major focus of the Trust is to raise awareness amongst young people and their support networks of the dangers of coercive control and stalking, reaching them through both formal education and online engagement. In March 2019 we launched the Alice Ruggles Trust Relationship Safety Resource, quality-assured teaching materials and lesson plans on stalking and coercive behaviour that are freely available to secondary teachers throughout the UK as part of the new statutory RSE strand of PSHE education. During 2020 we have enlisted the support of a panel of youth ambassadors aged 14–25 as we work to develop effective resources for victims, family members, friends, education and youth professionals, and criminal justice professionals. Our long-term goal is to equip a generation with the confidence to recognise coercive control and stalking, and a criminal justice system and support services that have a thorough understanding of the issues involved. We need to empower stalking victims to seek help much sooner, and to build a society that reacts in the right way when they do.