Survivors Voices is an abuse survivor-led, non-profit, organisation that turns the pain of abuse into power to improve responses to trauma. We work with Survivors of all types of abuse. We are all ‘experts by experience’, a community of volunteers, freelancers, workers and advisers from a rich variety of backgrounds.
Our vision is for a safer society with support for Survivors that is Survivor-sensitive, Survivor-empowering and services that are trauma-responsive.
What We Do
Peer Support
Peer Support groups and Survivor-gatherings are at the heart of Survivors Voices. We work with our sister organisation Little Ro to run a range of peer support groups. We are also home to a number of peer support communities of practice including: Survivor Researchers, Survivor Writers, and Survivor Activists.
We are always open to Survivors who wish to join us.
Trauma Informed Research
We research Survivor experiences of abuse, safeguarding, help-seeking and recovery.
We develop tools to support good involvement of Survivors and can help you to engage well with Survivors in your research project, recruit participants and peer researchers through our Linking Service.
We can also support you to take part in trauma-informed research
Survivor-led Education & Training
We educate about abuse and trauma-informed practice.
We provide Survivor-led training for practitioners, organisations and Survivors.
We can speak at your event or run training workshops.
Activism: Raising Awareness & Creating Change
We run Survivor-led projects to raise awareness of abuse and trauma, amplify Survivors’ voices and co-create change with Survivors. If you’re a Survivor and want to turn your pain into power for change, you may be interested in joining our peer support community of Survivor Activists: Changemakers.
Publish & Share: books, leaflets & other resources
We provide information and resources for Survivors, their allies and to support those who work with Survivors.
Many of these resources are Survivor-created and published through Survivors Voices Press, our independent, trauma-informed publishing arm.
Some are for sale and others are shared freely so they can be more widely available.
Connect
Keep in touch and find out about all our work and Survivor opportunities.
Support Our Work
Survivors Voices is a non-profit organisation and so every donation counts. If you’re able to, please make a donation and help us to ensure that our peer support groups and communities remain open to all, because every Survivor matters.
For more about us see Our History and meet Our Team. Check out what people say about us here. Support our work through a donation.
