Annual Report 2012-13

P.O Box 4325 Manchester M61 0BG

Survivors Manchester Annual Report 2012-13

“Existing to break the silence of the sexual abuse and rape of men in order to empower those affected to defeat the legacy of abuse to move towards positive futures�

Survivors Manchester is a company limited by guarantee (Company No: 06811096) Registered Charity in England & Wales (Charity No: 1144941) Š 2013, Survivors Manchester. info@survivorsmanchester.org.uk

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How our Activities Deliver Public Benefit Survivors Manchester exists to break the silence of the sexual abuse and rape of males in order to empower those affected to defeat the legacy of sexual violence and move towards creating positive futures. We do this by providing front line holistic support services as follows:

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Tier 1 

Self Help Website at www.survivorsmanchester.org.uk

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Self Help Publications (i.e. downloads or leaflet racks)

Tier 2 

Community Outreach (i.e. Safe Street Outreach Project)

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Email Support (through support@survivorsmanchester.org.uk)

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Telephone Support Service (incoming and outgoing calls)

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Prison In-reach (correspondence and 1:1 legal visits)

Tier 3 

1:1 Emotional Support (including ISVA)

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Counselling and Psychotherapy (1:1)

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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing)

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Health and Well-being activities (Football, Health Walks, Gym)

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Police Reporting

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Peer Support Group

The primary focus of the entire organisation’s work is to empower male survivors, both men and boys, to take back the power and control their lives, lost during abuse, so that they can make a positive contribution to society, achieve their goals and exceed expectations.

Survivors Manchester is also committed to raising public awareness of the issue of the sexual abuse of men. We do this by: 

providing information to partners, families and friends of male survivors that will help them understand the legacy of abuse;

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delivering

training

sessions

and

workshops

to

Police,

Counsellors/Psychotherapists, Doctors, Nurses, Support Staff and other frontline workers to help them manage disclosure and support male survivors in a survivor-focused way; and 

creating public information campaigns, either solely or in partnership with other charities and statutory services and organisations.

We are also members of a number of forums including; Greater Manchester Police Rape Steering Group; St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) Strategic

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Partnership Board; The Survivors Trust; and now founder member of the Home Office’s Sexual Violence Forum. This ensures that Survivors Manchester has a national voice on behalf of its service users and that it is continually delivering a high standard of service based on national best practice.

The charity believes that through campaigning, training, education and engagement with the wider community, we can break the silence of the sexual abuse and rape of men and boys within Greater Manchester; enabling those affected to feel able to come forward and work to defeat their own legacy of abuse.

The primary beneficiaries of the charity are males over the age of 18 who have been victims of sexual abuse and/or rape. Our secondary beneficiaries are those affected by a males’ experience of sexual abuse and/or rape. The organisation’s current area of benefit is Greater Manchester (comprising of the 10 metropolitan boroughs of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan).

In order to maintain a therapeutic environment, the charity is unable to provide services to those that are under investigation of or have a conviction for a sexual offence(s).

The organisations primary beneficiaries can be viewed as vulnerable adults and therefore it is imperative that all activities are carried out sensitively and with due care and attention to ensure that no further harm or re-traumatisation comes to the client. Therefore, the charity adheres to a number of internal and external policies and procedures, with all frontline service activities carried out using the BACP Ethical Framework in Counselling and Psychotherapy as a foundation. Further clinical guidelines (e.g. NICE) are used to ensure that any risk of potential harm is minimised. The robust governance structure ensures that any complaints can be treated seriously, professionally and always service-user focused. All those carrying out frontline services are fully trained to their ‘role’ professional standards and are members of relevant professional bodies within their own right. The organisation also voluntarily adheres to The Survivors Trust National Standards for Best Practice in the field of Sexual Violence.

The charity does not provide private benefits to any person connected directly or indirectly to the organisation.

Survivors Manchester is a company limited by guarantee (Company No: 06811096) Registered Charity in England & Wales (Charity No: 1144941) © 2013, Survivors Manchester. info@survivorsmanchester.org.uk

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Achievements and Performance (2012-13) It has been another fast paced and successful year for our charity. Not only are we now recognised as a Charity in England and Wales having successfully registered with the Charity Commission, we have worked endlessly in producing bids and building partnerships and now we are starting to reap the rewards of our efforts and commitment. Becoming a Community Partner of Zurich UK in 2011, through the Zurich Community Trust, has helped us immensely in 2012 in more ways than we could have ever imagined. Not only did that financial support allow us to expand and develop as an organisation, including securing a number of our front line services such as The Safe Room and our online support, the infrastructure and support that Zurich has offered has been well received and a critical ingredient to our ongoing and growing success.

The recognition and acknowledgement by the NHS and our dedication to support the sexual exploitation agenda, offering treatment and interventions to survivors has been fully embraced and embedded into our core offer to the survivor communities.

The NHS commissioning of a user led Charity is a sign that the survivor’s voice is being heard loud and clear and this is the tip of the iceberg. The Charity has plans to further explore a range of opportunities for expansion and wider spread delivery of our service model, to reach more people and help break the silence that still exists for so many. Our ambition and aspiration is to be a key stakeholder in shaping and influencing the agenda both locally and nationally in responding to CSE and we intend to be leaders in the field, offering a wider range of services to whoever needs the in the future.

Our Survivors Manchester Survivors Guide is yet another clear example a user led developed and produced guide that can reach survivors who may not be yet ready to step forward. This is yet another demonstrable achievement of a successful funding award from the Health Form, part of the People’s Health Lottery, whereby our innovation and creativity has been recognised and the product has been the production of a Survivors Guide that will be made available in hard copy and distributed to local organisations and every head teacher in every high school and college in Manchester, whilst electronic copies are available to anyone who wants one.

Survivors Manchester is a company limited by guarantee (Company No: 06811096) Registered Charity in England & Wales (Charity No: 1144941) Š 2013, Survivors Manchester. info@survivorsmanchester.org.uk

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A highlight of our year was when our founder and Service Director, Duncan Craig, was recognised as one of the 100 inspirational people in the UK, by the Independent on Sunday Happy List 2013. His tireless effort in initially creating and developing the charity, whilst providing front line services to individuals; training Police officers in how to best deal with male rape victims; ensuring that the voices of male survivors of childhood sexual abuse and rape are heard on a local and national platform, including via the Home Office UK Sexual Violence Forum and as part of the Children’s Commissioner for England’s report into child sexual exploitation in groups and gangs; and continuing to engage in research to ensure that evidence based practice is at the heart of the organisation; in our eyes means he deserves that accolade and more. Duncan was also give an honorable mention at the 2011 Lesbian and Gay Foundations ‘Homo Heroes’ Award for his work with Gay and Bisexual Men who have been victims of rape and sexual abuse.

Financial Review (2012-13) The charity is delighted this year to be able to report a significant increase in the income to Survivors Manchester, from £8,136 in 2012 to £80,084. This reflects £50,000 received from NHS Manchester as well as grants from Abney Garsden McDonald, Zurich Community Trust, the People’s Health Trust and Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority and over £7,000 of donations – all of which we would like to gratefully acknowledge.

Income this year has enabled us to publicise Survivors Manchester and offer more accessible services to our service users, which is reflected through the increase in our cost base.

We exit our 2013 financial year with £61,658 of reserves, though ¾ of it already committed - which puts us on a strong footing to further expand our services into the 2014 financial year, including reinstatement of the telephone support line, and expansion of accessible counselling services and educational programmes.

The board has taken the decision to ensure that Survivors Manchester aim to carry a minimum of 6 months operating costs (that are not financed by restricted funds) in unrestricted reserves.

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Plans for the Future (2013 onwards) As an organisation who has the drive, commitment and stamina to whether the global economic changes ahead whether it be welfare reforms, NHS reforms or changes in the political landscape, it’s our absolute intention to be in this for the long run. We have a vibrant, energetic and determined Board of Directors who are clear about the direction of travel, strategic aims and objectives but more importantly dead set on making a difference.

In the future we need to ensure that stabilising the organisation so we can meet demand created in this ‘post-savile’ era and continue to work effectively with Greater Manchester Police, St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre, Manchester Rape Crisis and Victim Support Manchester’s Victim Care Unit and Community Support so we can ensure those boys and men, that have been subjected to some of the most abhorrent crimes known to man can get the opportunity to heal, move forward and take back their lives.

In the immediate future, we aim to increase the opening hours of our telephone support

line;

increase

the

number

of

available

appointments

for

counselling/psychotherapy, and develop our EMDR practice, a therapeutic intervention recognised by NICE and the WHO as preferred treatment for PTSD. We are also excited to be rolling out a number of projects that will support the ‘5 Ways to Well-being’ and break the isolation caused by sexual abuse and rape. In keeping with outcomes, we are aiming to develop the Survivors Manchester Mental Health Recovery Star, watch this space!

We want Survivors Manchester to remain as a leader in the field of sexual violence and hope that by working with the University of Manchester we can continue to ensure that we are providing evidenced based practice and continue to add to data to the research effort across the world; and by continuing to work closely with Greater Manchester Police, we can aid detection to conviction and support victims through this abhorrent trauma. Help us break the silence, it stops with us!

Craig Craig Harris Chair of Board

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A Year in Statistics (2012-2013) The following graphs, charts and statistics are based on the total number of new individuals that sought help from Survivors Manchester in 2012-13.

New Contact Referrals

Currently, Survivors Manchester is averaging 8 new referrals each month. The increase in referrals can be tracked against media reporting of Operation Yewtree, the Rochdale CSE gang, Cheethams School of Music, and the arrest of local Granada TV and BBC personalities.

Residency of Referral The overwhelming majority of individuals that accessed support from Survivors Manchester were residents within the local authority of Manchester City Council.

However, referrals were received from all 10 AGMA districts, which is the tip of the iceberg as most of our publicity has been driven in Manchester.

This means that those in other Greater Manchester areas are actively seeking out and in need of support.

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Referral Route There is nearly a 50/50 split between those that self refer and those that are referred by other agencies and professionals. As an organisation, we prefer individuals to self refer but recognise that to be strict on this could prevent an individual from contacting us. We believe that any level of breaking the silence, directly to us at first or to another who can then support him to come to us is the way forward. Therefore, we have no introduced a Referral for Assessment form that an individual and his GP/worker can complete together and submit for assessment.

37% of those that self referred came through our newly opened Telephone helpline, re-opened with thanks to NHS Manchester. Our helpline is open Monday – Friday, 9am to 5pm, Wednesday 5.30pm – 7.30pm and every other Saturday from 11am – 3pm. At all other times, a secure recorded answering service is available and we commit to returning any calls within 12 hours.

20% of our referrals came directly from the NHS and 17% through the Criminal Justice System. Well over half (58%) of referrals came through the voluntary sector such as MIND, Barnardos and the Lesbian and Gay Foundation. However, Victim Support Victim Care Unit provided us with the most amount of referrals from the third sector with a whopping 74% of the voluntary sector referrals coming from them.

Male Survivors Of the 98 male survivors of sexual abuse and rape that contacted us in 2012-13, 22% were under 30, 55% under 50 and 7% over 50.

Monitoring diversity, we know that 3% identified as Black (African/Caribbean), 6% Asian and 2% Mixed Race. Again, for the 4th year, no individual identifying as Chinese engaged in our service and with such a big population in Manchester, we feel this is an area we need to work on.

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38% of all boys and men accessing our services described themselves as nonheterosexual and 3% of individuals identified as trans. The sexual violence committed against trans men and women is still of great concern to us at Survivors Manchester and we hope to address this in the near future. We also hope to undertake more work within the LGBT community with our friend and colleagues at the Lesbian and Gay Foundation, particularly around personal safety within the community.

Unsurprisingly,

with

the

furious

media

reporting of non-current (previously known as ‘historic’) reporting of childhood sexual abuse, 96% of boys and men contacting us for help were dealing with the impact of sexual violation from the past. 70% of men had been abused when they were under 16, and in 70% of cases, the perpetrator was known to the individual.

Only 23% of those seeking support had contacted Greater Manchester Police at the time of asking Survivors Manchester for support. However, 12 individuals made a complaint following support from Survivors Manchester.

In order to be able to look at statistics alongside data gathered by our colleagues at St Mary’s SARC, Manchester Rape Crisis and Greater Manchester Police, we have decided to frame current offences as happening within 12 months.

Impact of Sexual Abuse and Rape 44% of individuals reporting having an issue with drugs or alcohol but only just over half were engaged in drug and alcohol services.

“Studies examining the long-term effects of childhood abuse and related stressors have found increased risk for outcomes such as substance use and misuse” - Shanta R. Dube (2005)

65% of individuals reported mental health issues, with 46% of those on some form of medication to alleviate the symptoms such as depression, anxiety, flashbacks, hearing voices and long and enduring mental health diagnosises.

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Annual Comparisons Bringing together the total amount of new referrals within each of Survivors Manchester financial years, the increase over the past 4½ years becomes apparent and it’s continuing to grow at a rapid rate.

In 2012 – 2013, Survivors Manchester received more referrals in one whole year than the combined number of referrals in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011.

Contact Details Survivors Manchester is a company limited by guarantee and is registered with the Charity Commission.

Company Registration

06811096

Incorporated: 5 February 2009

Charity Registration

1144941

Registered: 6 December 2011

The registered office is: P.O Box 4325, 77 Oldham Rd, Manchester, M61 0BG

Tel:

0161 236 90255 (Office)

Email:

info@survivorsmanchester.org.uk (Office)

Tel:

0161 236 2182 (Helpline)

Email:

support@survivorsmanchester.org.uk (Helpline)

Survivors Manchester is a company limited by guarantee (Company No: 06811096) Registered Charity in England & Wales (Charity No: 1144941) © 2013, Survivors Manchester. info@survivorsmanchester.org.uk