Male Survivors Partnership

Male Survivor Partnership addresses inequality for male survivors/victims of sexual assault, who, as a significantly minority among people experience sexual violence, face complex social and personal barriers to accessing support and who are underserved by the majority of support services, because many services are shaped with women in mind, often explicitly excluding males or offering limited access.  We are a membership organisation primarily developing change in the sector by offering three mains services for organisations wishing to support males. 

• 1) Information services to disseminate news, for example on developments on law, policy or funding, opportunities to engage in research of training or enabling members to share their own news, resources and routes to collaboration.
• 2) Facilitating collective activities: debates, conferences, joint letters, research, campaigning, media opportunities.
• 3) Developing and promoting our Male Quality Standards for work with male survivors of sexual violence, including enabling services, commissioners and policy makers to access the standards and enabling services to undergo a development process leading to accreditation with our quality mark.

We also generate benefits for policy-makers by disseminating priority information to our sector and by offering policy makers information and analysis from our nationwide engagement with local services.

We support research projects in academia and the statutory sector by enabling researchers to engage with grassroots organisations and service users.

Finally, we serve male survivors of sexual violence and their friends and families by sharing resources and signposting to survivor services on our national website www.malesurvivor.co.uk and via our social media channels.