Opening soon across Europe
Nora is a non-profit fund for women leaving economically abusive relationships. We pay for what it takes to break free and get back on your feet: the lawyer, the deposit, the first month's rent. Straight to the provider, never through his accounts.
I want to helpThe allowance. The questions. The account in his name. The career he talked you out of.
Economic abuse rarely looks like abuse. It looks like budgeting. Like concern. Like generosity, at first. In the EU countries that asked in full, one in five women has lived it, many without ever giving it a name.
Nora gives it a name, and you the means to leave.
The scale of it
Now
Legal fees, a safe address, the move. Paid straight to the provider.
Get access to fundsNot yet
Quietly, from your own income. We match it when you go.
Help me set aside my leaving fundFamily lawyers, court fees, translations and the paperwork a case needs. We check free legal aid first, then cover the rest.
A deposit and the first month's rent on a safe home, and the van to get there.
Childcare while you rebuild. Travel to somewhere safe. A bed, a fridge, a phone of your own.
Tell us. If it's what keeps you from leaving, we'll consider it.
We pay the lawyer, landlord or supplier against an invoice. Nothing appears on a statement anyone else can read.
Only our team and the person who calls you see your answers. The red button swaps this page for a weather search.
We never publish, share or sell it. Not with partners, funders or the press, unless you ask us to.
For employers
Economic abuse doesn't stay at home. It clocks in. Open Door trains your managers to offer support, never to pry, so no one has to choose between her job and her safety.
Talk to us about Open DoorFor organisations
Women's services, programmes and law firms across Europe. We fund the exit. You're there for everything after.
Become a partnerHistory repeats itself
In 1879, Henrik Ibsen gave Europe Nora Helmer: a wife kept on an allowance, called a spendthrift, and treated like a child in her own home. When she walked out in the final scene, audiences were scandalised. A century of hard-won rights later, the pattern hasn't gone away. It has just gone quiet: the joint account he manages, the career she's talked out of, the debt in her name.
Nora was written in 1879. She is still being written.
1879
Ibsen's Nora lives on an allowance. Then she leaves.
1965
French wives may open a bank account without asking.
1975
Spain lets a woman open a bank account without her husband's permission. Britain outlaws refusing women credit.
Today
Where the EU asked in full: 1 in 5 women. The law is on her side. The money isn't.