One of Queensland's most prominent domestic violence charities is celebrating a bittersweet milestone while in desperate need of assistance to ensure women continue to be helped by the service.

More than 8,000 calls are made every month from women across the state who are in fear or in immediate threat of danger from domestic or family violence.

RizeUp, a community-driven organisation that works with affected families, recently moved its 600th family into a safe home in Brisbane.

Each week the group enters unfurnished houses and apartments for families coming from refuges that are linked to crisis services, equipping the home with food, toiletries, beds, furniture and kitchen appliances.

To continue operating and keep up with the demand for services, RizeUp requires a large warehouse to store donated items.

More than just a warehouse

Founder Nicolle Edwards said currently the charity operated out of 19 small sheds around the state.

"You can imagine how inefficient it is," she told ABC Radio Brisbane's Rebecca Levingston.

"We've just been offered furniture from 35 rooms from a five-star facility in Brisbane, which is unbelievable, but in one week we needed [storage] room for 17 single beds."

Volunteers help set up homes for families moving out of refuges. ( Facebook: RizeUp )

RizeUp currently has a three-week turnaround from when it receives notification from a refuge that a family is moving in.

Ms Edwards said a 1,200-square-metre facility would enable the group to help many other families in need.

"We're looking for someone hopefully in a corporate position who wants to power this incredible organisation to become Australia's revolution against family and domestic violence," she said.

"We can't go and sign a lease for five years unfortunately as it's too much of a financial gamble for us — this is the predicament we are in."

She said part of the group's work was letting families know they were not alone.

Volunteers help build furniture and organise the house ready for families to move in. ( Facebook: RizeUp )

"For a lot of families, they're often isolated and don't have a lot of people to help," Ms Edwards said.

"Australia is made up of immigrants and there's not a lot of extended family to wrap around them, so that's how we step up as a community."

'They really saved us'

Tracey — a mother who was helped by the group — said the service helped her and her daughter survive.

Notes are left to welcome the families entering the homes. ( Facebook: RizeUp )

She was living in her car and couch surfing before finding a steel machinery shed where she and her daughter slept on the floor.

"We didn't have power or water and being steel it was damn hot all the time," she said.

"There was a lot of trauma, suicide attempts, anger, bitterness and tears all the time.

"The only way I got through was being stoic and resistant and to have faith that at some point our lives would change and we would find a home."

The group tries to make the rooms warm and welcoming. ( Facebook: RizeUp )

Although the Department of Housing found Tracey a home, she said the next battle was trying to find a bed and cutlery to use.

"I had a breakdown because for so long I had been in survival mode and when I entered the empty house I knew my journey wasn't over," she said.

"A domestic violence service visited me in hospital and they told me about RizeUp, and a few days later I walked into this little apartment and there were beds, linen, food and even shampoo.

"They saved us ... they really saved us."

Ms Edwards said RizeUp worked closely with the State Government but hoped local councils might assist.

"We wonder if there's not council properties that aren't being utilised that could house our donations."

To volunteer or contact RizeUp, visit its website.