A charity supporting disabled people has received more than £100,000 to help support disabled and deaf victims of violence.

Stay Safe East (SSE), based in Waltham Forest, was given a £103,700 grant by the City of London Corporation’s charitable funder, City Bridge Trust, the capital’s biggest independent grant giver.

SSE is boosting its support for deaf and disabled people after recording an increase in the number of cases involving child protection, domestic violence or women with high support needs.

In the past year the charity has had to turn down numerous domestic violence referrals because of limited capacity.

The project currently offers support across Waltham Forest and Newham.

The funding will enable SSE to expand its services in both boroughs, working intensively with more disabled victims with complex support needs and people who need long-term support.

New staff will also allow the charity to take on more volunteers.

Ruth Bashall, Director of Stay Safe East, said:

“Our work with disabled victims and survivors of domestic violence, hate crime and other forms of abuse has grown in the past three years and our clients face ever more complex barriers to safety and to getting justice.

“We provide long-term advocacy and support for clients to get the help they need and to move on from the abuse.”

City Bridge Trust makes grants of £20 million a year to tackle disadvantage across the capital. The Trust has awarded more than 7,700 grants totalling over £370 million since it first began in 1995.