This study grew out of an ESRC Social Science Festival Event in November 2019. The event brought together the members of the National (England and Wales) LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Network for professionals and researchers whose work focuses on domestic abuse (DA) in the relationships of lesbians, gay men, bisexual women and men, trans women and men and non-binary/gender queer folk (LGB and/or T+).
The most pressing issues facing the LGBT+ DA sector are: funding, sustainability, and the increasing need for their services. Four of the organisations present did not yet know if they would have funding for the financial year 2020-21; and the only Welsh representative had seen their project close earlier
in 2019. A study involving LGBT+ DA sector was decided on with aims to:
i. Evidence the precarious nature of the sector’s funding;
ii. Evidence the impacts of the funding context on the day-to-day working practices of the
sector at an organisational and individual level;
iii. Make this evidence visible to key funders in order to effect positive change. (From the Executive summary). Record #7474