By Jade Maria Burrowes, Founder of The Women’s Railroad
On 21 March 2026, The Women’s Railroad launched. Not with a press release. Not with institutional backing. With a guide, a website, and a conviction that women experiencing domestic abuse deserve something better than a signpost.
The Women’s Railroad guide, Get Money. Get Out. Get Rid., is the first of its kind: a free, practical, step-by-step resource that walks women through financial preparation, safe departure, and legal protection, in plain language, with no referral required and no trace left on a monitored device.
It was created because women in the most difficult moments of their lives need more than awareness. They need a clear, practical route out.
The gap it fills
Existing resources for women experiencing domestic abuse are predominantly signposting services, directing women toward organisations, helplines, and professionals. While valuable, they place the burden of navigation on women who are already overwhelmed, isolated, and often monitored.
The Women’s Railroad does something different. It puts the information directly into a woman’s hands, in plain language, structured as a clear step-by-step process she can follow herself, without needing to call anyone, register anywhere, or leave a digital trace.
No other free resource in the UK currently combines financial preparation, safe departure planning, and legal protection guidance in a single, accessible, anonymous guide of this kind.
How it works
The guide is available as a free download at thewomensrailroad.org.uk. Individual women can access it instantly, with no registration, no referral, and no personal information required. It can be accessed anonymously and leaves no trace on a monitored device. It is structured around three clear steps: Get Money, covering financial preparation and independence; Get Out, covering safe departure planning; and Get Rid, covering legal protections once a woman has left.
About the founder
The Women’s Railroad was founded by Jade Maria Burrowes, Director of IMGG Ltd. Jade’s proximity to domestic abuse began early and came from multiple directions: a family member, a childhood friend, and across generations of women she loved. These were not abstract experiences. They were people she knew, people she tried to help even as a child, and people she never forgot.
That proximity, and the helplessness that comes with witnessing harm you are too young to stop, shaped everything that followed. Jade decided to study for an LLB with the intention of becoming an advocate for women and children affected by domestic abuse. The guide was the result: a resource she wished had existed, built for the women who need it most.
“Women experiencing domestic abuse are not lacking courage. They are lacking a clear, practical route. The Women’s Railroad exists to give them that.” Jade Maria Burrowes, Founder.
Where we are now
In first six weeks of our launch, The Women’s Railroad has gained traction across the United Kingdom and internationally, with readers in multiple countries. The guide is already in circulation with CICs and charities supporting survivors of domestic abuse across the UK and has attracted significant interest from senior figures across the legal profession in England and Wales.
The guide is currently being considered for commercial licensing by legal professionals. It is free and unrestricted for individual women. Refuges, charities, CICs, and statutory services wishing to share or distribute the guide must contact The Women’s Railroad directly and provide clear attribution to The Women’s Railroad and IMGG Ltd in all uses. Commercial licensing is available to law firms and private healthcare providers. All other use of the guide, branding, or materials requires prior written consent from IMGG Ltd.
For press enquiries, partnership discussions, or licensing information, contact team@imgg.co.uk or visit thewomensrailroad.org.uk.
The Women’s Railroad is a free resource. Always, for the women who need it.
Founded 21 March 2026 by Jade Maria Burrowes. Published by IMGG Ltd