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TRANSFORM GRANTS AWARDED 2017
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Government Region
Partners
Amirah Giving ltd
WEST MIDLANDS
brap
Ann Craft Trust
EAST MIDLANDS
Organisation Name
AVA (Against Violence and Abuse) Carmarthen Domestic Abuse Services
LONDON
Agenda
WALES
Carmarthenshire People First
Latin American Women's Rights Service
National
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual AntiViolence and Policing Group (Galop)
LONDON
Stonewall Housing
Description
Total grant
Amirah Giving will work with brap, primarily focusing on changing cultural attitudes to violence against women amongst faith leaders and men and boys, to better support Muslim women experiencing domestic abuse.
99,950
Ann Craft Trust will build an evidence base about the impact of domestic abuse on disabled people and develop practice and policy recommendations.
93,030
AVA and AGENDA will set up a national commission into violence against women and girls and complex needs (domestic abuse, substance addiction and mental health). They will produce a commission report with policy and practice recommendations.
96,320
Carmarthen Domestic Abuse Services and Carmarthen People First will develop research to improve the response to domestic abuse for the learning disabled, connecting learning disabled groups and domestic abuse organisations.
98,692
Step Up! for Migrant Women is a campaigning and research project for asserting the rights of all women survivors of violence against women to access safe reporting and appropriate services. It aims to create a ‘firewall’ between reporting of violence against women and immigration control.
84,673
Galop will work with Stonewall Housing to facilitate a coordinated national approach to understand, raise awareness and address the inequality in access to service provision for LGBT survivors of domestic abuse.
99,793
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Manchester Action on Street Health
A consortium of MASH, Manchester Rape Crisis and Trafford rape crisis will work with Manchester Metropolitan University to carry out research into the needs of female survivors of sexual violence and exploitation and consult on and develop a network of specialist and non-specialist provision across all 10 Greater Manchester boroughs.
82,714
The charity will further develop and deliver a specialist therapeutic practice framework and training modules to improve organisational competency across the sector, making use of a Train the Trainer system to embed the approach in other charities.
94,000
The charity will carry out research into therapeutic interventions for people affected by sexual violence and develop a Diploma in Trauma Counselling.
99,893
National
The grant will fund a Policy Officer to increase its capacity to respond to a complex and fast-moving area of social policy, including work to influence commissioning.
98,412
SOUTH EAST
Evaluation of a Domestic Violence Champions Network that works across a range of statutory and other agencies to encourage earlier intervention, providing support for other areas to strengthen local partnerships and make use of a Champion approach.
98,450
Rights of Women will work with Public Law Project to develop action research into Exceptional Case Funding applications. In doing so, it will train up practitioners to support people making applications and seek to influence the national policy environment.
99,525
NORTH WEST
My Sisters Place
NORTH EAST
New Pathways
WALES
Rape Crisis England and Wales
Reducing the Risk of Domestic Abuse
Rights of Women
National
Manchester Rape Crisis; Trafford Rape Crisis
Public Law Project
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Safer Wales Ltd
The project is aimed at improving the response of domestic and sexual abuse services for women exploited through prostitution and women in the criminal justice system, including through the development of an adverse childhood experience risk assessment checklist.
WALES
Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support
SOUTH WEST
Survivors Manchester
NORTH WEST
Womens Counselling and Therapy Service
YORKSHIRE & THE HUMBER
Yorkshire and Humberside Circles of Support and Accountability
YORKSHIRE & THE HUMBER
Womankind Therapy Service; Barnardo's BASE; The Green House; The Southmead Project; Voscur The Male Survivors Partnership (Mankind; Safeline; Survivors UK); LimeCulture CIC
Leeds Involving People
Support for the Bristol Sexual Violence Support Services Consortium (Somerset & Avon Rape & Sexual Abuse Support; Womankind Therapy Service; Barnardo's BASE; The Green House; The Southmead Project; Voscur) to improve the response to sexual violence, developing shared systems and approaches together with a toolkit on developing consortia.
100,000
100,000
The Male Survivors Partnership (Survivors Manchester, (Mankind; Safeline; Survivors UK); LimeCulture CIC) will research best practice in work with male victims and use this to design, test and accredit a specific set of service standards.
85,000
The partnership between Women’s Counselling and Therapy Service and Leeds Involving People aims to improve survivors’ mental health through enhancing services and supporting statutory policy development. It is looking for system change across Leeds, co-produced with a Leadership Group comprising people with lived experience.
99,492
The charity will support and train service providers (e.g. those related to substance misuse, housing and employment) to help them work safely and confidently with sex offenders so they can reintegrate into communities, with the aim of reducing future victims of sexual abuse.
100,000
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