Our story
We’re here to help build a safer world, side by side with the people making it happen. ~
A resource. A critical friend. A space for reflection.
We walk alongside the individuals, organisations, and systems doing this work every day, to support approaches that are effective, sustainable, and co-produced with the people they’re designed to serve.
Why we exist.
We believe everyone has the right to safety from violence, abuse, and harm, and that the people and systems working to make this a reality deserve to be supported, resourced, and empowered. That’s not always easy. Frontline professionals are navigating huge challenges. Organisations are doing more with less. Systems are complex, and translating national policy into local reality takes time, care, and connection.
We’re here to help create the conditions that make change possible.
We work across the ecosystem, from practitioners and partnerships to national bodies, bridging the gap between evidence, policy, and practice. We don’t parachute in with answers. We listen, reflect, and walk alongside, helping to turn insight into action, and ambition into impact.
Because lasting change happens when people are equipped to lead it, with the space, strategy, and support they need.
What we do.
We support people and organisations working to reduce violence, abuse, and harm, including domestic abuse, sexual violence, violence against women and girls, exploitation, and youth violence by strengthening safeguarding systems and practices that respond to these interconnected issues.
Whilst recognising the specific nature of different types of violence, abuse and harm, we know they often share common causes and conditions, and they frequently co-occur in the lives of the same individuals, families, and communities. Research and global violence prevention frameworks highlight how violence is shaped by multiple layers of influence, from individual experiences and relationships, to the systems, institutions, and cultural norms that surround us.
Harm is driven by factors at the personal, interpersonal, community, and societal level, but we are clear: using violence, abuse, or causing harm to others is always a choice. There is no excuse, only context. And it’s our role, collectively, to change the conditions that allow that choice to be made, tolerated, or ignored.
Our work is grounded in intersectional, anti-racist, feminist principles. We recognise that people’s experiences of harm, and of systems, are shaped by power, identity, and inequality. We actively seek to challenge discrimination, promote equity, and centre the voices of those who experience violence, abuse or harm. We help organisations and partnerships untangle complexity, understand what’s driving harm, and build connected, evidence-informed responses.
We help you:
Reflect, through safe, structured spaces for supervision, learning, and support
Grow, with training and tools grounded in evidence, experience, and care
Improve, through evaluations, needs assessments, and reviews that generate meaningful learning
Plan, with strategies and frameworks that are clear, values-led, and action-oriented
Adapt, using insight, research, and systems-thinking to respond to what’s emerging
Stay Accountable, with challenge, scrutiny, and honest conversations that keep people at the centre
How we work.
We bring a unique mix of lived experience, frontline understanding, and strategic insight. We’re researchers, facilitators, review authors, policy specialists and people who care deeply about this work. We combine:
Curiosity: always asking how things can be better
Clarity: cutting through complexity to find the signal in the noise
Care: never forgetting the human impact behind every system
Challenge: asking the hard questions, holding space for growth
Connection: bringing people together, across disciplines and siloes
We’re values-led, mission-driven, and focused on what works. We hold a mirror up to systems, but we also get stuck in. Because change doesn’t happen by accident. It happens through learning, action, and reflection.