Consultancy
We work alongside domestic and sexual violence and abuse services across the country, examining how power, culture, governance and service design shape what survivors experience, particularly those who are racialised and marginalised.
Support that changes how a service works
We aim to help services move past awareness and commit to the action that sustains change. We work with you to build services that keep equity and safety in place, so neither depends on the goodwill of individual practitioners.
An independent look at how your service is designed, who makes which decisions and how survivors move through it, from referral and triage to case closure.
A review of policy, practice and organisational culture through our three navigational principles: cultural competemility, anti-racism and intersectionality.
Operating manuals, practice handbooks, safeguarding escalation pathways and case management toolkits, written for your service and ready to put into practice.
Embedding intersectional risk assessment, including our Intersectional Risk Tracker Tool, into advocacy, MARAC preparation and everyday case management.
Advisory support for boards and senior leaders on power, accountability and the structures that hold anti-oppressive practice in place over time.
Programme and service evaluation that centres the voices of victim-survivors and gives commissioners evidence they can act on.
Our commissioning process
A commission can take many forms. Alongside service design and delivery reviews, we write and review policy so that it is anti-oppressive, anti-racist and intersectional, and we develop organisational strategy grounded in anti-racist, intersectional, Black feminist practice. Whatever the brief, the work follows four stages.
An initial conversation about your service, your context and what you are hoping to change.
Policies, strategy, documents, data and conversations with staff and, where it is safe to do so, survivors.
Recommendations, policy and strategy developed with your team, so they fit how your organisation actually works.
Written processes, training and a clear handover, so the change lasts after we leave.
Some things we're proud of
Working alongside some of the UK's biggest charities to reshape how advocacy services are structured, supported and held accountable to the survivors they serve.
OPCC-funded research into the needs of racialised victim-survivors, which went on to shape the Friedom Framework and the IRTT.
“Frieda really understood what we were trying to achieve and helped us think beyond how things have always been done.”
Chief Executive, UK charityBuilt from Frieda's research with racialised victim-survivors
IRTT endorsed by the Office of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner
Commissioned by some of the UK's biggest charities
Practitioners, researchers and lived experience together
Book a consultation
Tell us a little about your organisation and what you are hoping to change, and we will arrange an initial conversation to explore whether we are the right fit.
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