How Your Vote for Pause Can Help Create Space for Change

Pause is taking part in the My Favourite Voucher Codes August charity poll, and your vote could help them win a donation to support their vital work. Pause is a national charity that works to improve the lives of women who have had, or are at risk of having, more than one child removed from their care, and the services and systems that affect them.

Pause is one of the August charities competing in the poll this month in the hopes of winning 20% of our monthly net profits! Find out more about this incredible charity below, and see why they need your votes. 

What does Pause do?

Every child has the right to a safe, secure and loving home. However, this can’t always happen. The number of children entering care each year remains at a record high, and a significant number of these children are removed from parents who have previously had a child a removed into care.

Many families experience the removal of a child into care and receive little support afterwards. While services and support often follow the child, parents can be left to cope with the trauma of removal alongside existing challenges in their lives. Without support, some families can become trapped in a cycle of repeat pregnancies, care proceedings and further removals.

Pause was founded to provide a different approach for women who had experienced, or were at risk of experiencing, repeated removals of children into care. Their aim is to support women to build safer, more stable lives, while contributing to longer-term change so that fewer families experience repeat removals of children into care.

What services does Pause provide?

Pause works towards this aim in several connected ways:

· They offer intensive, relationship-based support through their core and REACH programmes, working alongside women over time to help them build stability and make positive changes in their lives.

· They influence and partner with services and systems to improve the support available to women and families affected by the removal of children into care.

· They ensure women’s voices help shape their work, including through involvement activity, campaigns, reports and creative projects.

What impact does Pause have?

Pause’s approach is based on trusting relationships, trauma-informed practice and support that is shaped around each woman’s circumstances. Women working with Pause are supported to build stability and make positive changes across different areas of their lives, including wellbeing, relationships, confidence and self-esteem.

Crucially, women tell Pause that the work makes a difference.

“I have four children in care of family members. For my eldest two, I never received any aftercare [after they were removed] and I started drinking and self-harming and went down a dark road. Then I had my third child and, again I had no aftercare, so again I started drinking and went back down the dark road. Then I had my

fourth child and this time I’ve had aftercare from Pause. They really helped me stay off that dark road” – Woman working with Pause

How will the donation help Pause?

If Pause wins the My Favourite Voucher Codes charity poll this month, the donation will support their work with women who have experienced, or are at risk of experiencing, the removal of children into care.

Every vote will help Pause continue providing intensive, relationship-based support and contributing to wider change in the services and systems that affect women and families.

How can I support Pause?

The quickest and easiest way to support Pause this month is to vote for them in the My Favourite Voucher Codes charity poll. It is completely free, takes less than a minute, and you do not need to sign up for anything. You can support them from 1 to 31 August 2026 by heading to the homepage and casting your vote.

You can also support Pause by:

• Making a direct donation.
• Following Pause on social media and sharing their message to help raise awareness: LinkedIn and Instagram.

How can I find out more about Pause? For more information about Pause and their work, visit their website. You can also listen to their podcast, In a Mother’s Mind, which shares powerful stories.

How can I contact Pause?

Women interested in Pause’s services, professionals, or anyone wanting to learn more can visit the Pause website. The site includes information on their programmes, contact details for local Practices, and resources for women and families. You can also email them: info@pause.org.uk. Or use the contact form on their website: Pause contact form.

Why your vote matters By voting for Pause in this month’s My Favourite Voucher Codes charity poll, you’ll be helping women access support to build safer, more stable lives and make positive changes for the future. Every vote makes a difference, and it is completely free to take part.

Please share the poll with friends, family and colleagues to help Pause win this important donation and continue their life-changing work.

Emily Atkinson-Dalton
Charities Coordinator 
5th August 2026