Resources for LGBTQ survivors

Discretionary payment for paying rent in advance, help with council tax & removal costs for anyone on benefits.

Apply for a discretionary payment (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

A database where you can select any grant and fund, and everything will come up in a handy database.

Search for charitable and educational grants – Turn2us

This helps with food costs & emergency resourcing issues.

Brighton & Hove – Local Discretionary Social Fund Application (egovhub.net)

Can provide casework (alongside an already existing IDVA) for survivors of economic abuse to navigate the system and open a new bank account. There is also a helpline.

The Financial Support Line for Victims of Domestic Abuse (moneyadviceplus.org.uk)

Webpage with information of how UC,ESA, DSA and the benefits cap is changed for survivors of domestic abuse.

Help available from the Department for Work and Pensions for people who are victims of domestic violence and abuse – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

A really great resource of how to stay in your home, manage debts, change or open bank accounts and how to separate your finances from the abuser.

Finding a safe place to live – Surviving Economic Abuse

Can sign off on foodbank referrals, has its own food surplus resources and can provide things like personal care items. B&H libraries also sometimes have these resources. Switchboard have access to 100 sim cards.

https://www.switchboard.org.uk/what-we-do/domestic-abuse/

Rail to Refuge service, provides free train travel to refuges & covers the cost of a ticket.

Rail to Refuge – Womens Aid

Provides clothes, child specific furniture, sheets, buggies, books, arts and crafts (anything for children under age 10). Must be referred by us.

homepage – Pelican Parcels

Advice line for professionals working with domestic abuse survivors; specialises in:

• Issues relating to joint claims
• ‘Right to reside’ and eligibility
• Managing benefits after fleeing domestic abuse
• Any other welfare rights matters

Survivors welfare advice project | CPAG

Airtable of social tariffs and mobile packages for Broadband & mobile phones. for people on benefits & low incomes.

Social tariffs and mobile packages – LOTI

Airtable – Broadband Social Tariffs PUBLIC VIEW

CURRENTLY CLOSED- WILL CHECK REGULARLY TO SEE WHEN OPEN.

Gives grants of £300-£500 to survivors of domestic abuse (also mental health grants, older people’s grants, disability grants)

Welfare Grants – Family Action (family-action.org.uk)

Have a No Resource Fund for anyone in the UK who has no recourse to public funds, have an insecure immigration status, and allows them to access a refuge or safe accommodation. Help pages on Forced Marriage, Immigration Problems and Abusive Relationships.

Routes to Support – Southall Black Sisters

General Welfare grant for up to £500, restrictions apply on this grant (for example, clearing debts), but they will fund applications.

Al-Mizan Charitable Trust – General Welfare Fund – Grants Policy (almizantrust.org.uk)

‘Recognisable’ , an accessible zine about a non-binary person trying to cope with a changing relationship.

Galop20Zine20NEO20singles.pdf

Trans and Non Binary solidarity fund, can provide funds of around £50 to help trans people with affirmative clothing. There is also a free binder service available.

Trans & Non-Binary Solidarity Fund | LGBT Traveller Pride

Support service for Black femme survivors- they are currently recruiting for a specialist IDVA for Sussex. They provide counselling, advocacy and outreach.

OUR SERVICES | HERSANA CIC

Provides services from an abolitionist perspective including a ‘reimagining masculinities healing circle’ for men & masculine identifying people of colour. They also do restorative yoga & specialised sessions for racialised communities.

Offer a tailored anti-racist domestic abuse recovery programme for survivors of domestic abuse who experience racism. Courses are over a period of 12 weeks.

Domestic Abuse Recovery Program

Black and Brown Rainbow is a specialist organisation providing support, practical help and advice via a free phone helpline for Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic, Refugee LGBTQI+ people who are living in a hostile environment, with lived experiences of domestic violence (partner/family abuse, so called honour based violence, forced marriage, harmful practices), sexual violence and discriminatory abuse – including state and colonial oppression and violence.

Helpline open hours Monday 6-8pm and Wednesday 6-8pm. Call 0800 054 1097

Black and Brown Rainbow

Autistic guides to healthy relationships

SANS: Autistic guide to healthy relationships

An autistic guide to healthy relationships-Easty Read

Easy read version of service description and support service provision for LGBTQ+ survivors

Domestic Abuse Support – Easy Read Version

Easy read version of service description and support service provision for LGBTQ+ survivors

Easy-Read-DVA-V3-1.pdf (galop.org.uk)

If a person finds it hard to communicate with Police in an emergency situation, if you think this is suitable.

https://www.sussex.police.uk/contact/af/contact-us/us/contact-us/sspegasus-scheme/pegasus-scheme/

This video in BSL by Deaf Rainbow UK and SignHealth explains domestic abuse in LGBTQIA+ relationships, and the power and control wheel.

Sex worker support service & dedicated male sex worker support (trans & non-binary inclusive) Brighton and Hove | Terrence Higgins Trust (tht.org.uk)

SWOP Sussex is a sex workers’ outreach project for women who live or work in the sex industry in Sussex. SWOP is trans inclusive.

Traveller Pride therapy fund, can provide up to 12 sessions free of charge. Currently the waitlist is full but they can make recommendations on good therapists.

Traveller Pride Therapy Service | LGBT Traveller Pride

Low cost therapy which helps support people to recover and increase their wellbeing. Long waiting lists.

Therapies and counselling | RISE (riseuk.org.uk)

Provides a helpline for male (and non binary) survivors of domestic abuse.

Contact Us – (mankind.org.uk)

Database with a wide range of low cost and free therapies available. Some is free & specialized, some is generic. MindOut is specialised for LGBTQ people.

Free-and-Low-Cost-Counselling-List-2021.pdf (mindcharity.co.uk)

Free therapy for any non binary, male or intersex person who has had unwanted sexual experiences at any time in their life.

Access our services – Mankind (mkcharity.org)