The Rape & Sexual Abuse Counselling Centre C.I.O. (RSACC) was established in 1990 and was formally known as County Durham Rape Crisis. Centre services are unique in Darlington and County Durham in being a member of Rape Crisis and in providing free and confidential face to face counselling and telephone support to female survivors of rape, sexual abuse and/or domestic abuse. The service is open to women and girls over the age of 13 regardless of whether the abuse suffered is recent or historic. Centre services are provided by women for women.

The Centre is a registered charity and is currently funded by The Northern Rock Foundation, Lloyds TSB, Equality & Human Rights Commission, Lankelly Chase and The Big Lottery.

As well as being an affiliated member of Rape Crisis England & Wales www.rapecrisis.org.uk the Centre is also an organisational member of The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, “As an organisational member of BACP they are bound by its Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy”.