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The Drive Partnership launches Grant Fund application process for delivery partner of specialist response to those who harm in LGBT+ communities

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2nd December 2024

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The Drive Partnership is today pleased to launch a Grant Fund application process seeking a delivery partner to trial a new programme for those who harm in LGBT+ communities. The Grant Fund is open to applications from England-based organisations across the sector between 2 December and 13 January 2025, with applications particularly welcome from by-and-for organisations. Please find further details and how to apply below.  

Designed collaboratively with LGBT+ professionals and by-and-for organisations, the programme has been developed to address the significant lack of specialist responses to those who harm across LGBT+ communities. The programme will also seek to build relationships and knowledge sharing across generic and LGBT+ specific services, build capacity for further specialist responses, and shift power as part of the Drive Partnership’s wider National Systems Change work. The Drive Partnership’s National Systems Change work identifies systemic gaps and brings together the insights of victim-survivors, service users, practitioners, specialist organisations, researchers, and policymakers to support the development of sustainable, national systems that respond more effectively to all perpetrators of domestic abuse to increase the safety of all victim-survivors.  

Thanks to further funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, the Drive Partnership last year launched a new phase of its National Systems Change work by partnering with specialist by-and-for organisations and experts by experience to co-design specialist responses to perpetrators of domestic abuse. Three co-design groups and an Advisory Group were established to develop behaviour change pilot programmes focusing on responses to those who cause harm within LGBT+ communities, Black, African, Caribbean and Mixed Heritage communities, and South Asian communities. 

The opening of a Grant Fund application process for a delivery partner to trial these new interventions is the next step in this phase of work to improve responses to those who harm in LGBT+ communities, with similar steps being taken for delivery of the co-designed specialist responses to those who harm in Black, African, Caribbean, and Mixed Heritage communities and South Asian communities. 

Programme details  

The programme recognises the diversity within LGBT+ communities and prioritises creating one-to-one interventions designed to reflect individual needs and lived experiences. 

  • Delivery time: 3 month mobilisation plus 12-month delivery.
  • Delivery model: Face-to-face or hybrid.
  • Intended service users: LGBT+ people who are using harmful behaviour in their intimate relationships.
  • Delivery style: 1-to-1 work with individuals based on a pre-designed manual.
  • Expected length of intervention: Minimum 27 weeks plus any additional modules based on identity needs presented on intake.
  • Location: Based on successful applicant (only open to organisation in England).
  • Victim-survivor support: It is required that there would be integrated victim-survivor support provided either by the applicant or through a local partnership structure.

Key principles 

  • Authentic Collaboration: Collaboration between mainstream domestic abuse perpetrator services and by-and-for LGBT+ organisations to amplify community voices and ensure the programme is informed by lived experiences. 
  • Building Sector Capacity: addressing the sparse provision of LGBT+ perpetrator services, and limited domestic abuse perpetrator expertise within LGBT+ communities, while fostering growth across both sectors. 
  • Inclusive Service Design: Recognising the non-homogeneity of LGBT+ communities, ensuring services are intersectional, culturally competent, and sensitive to individual experiences. 

We acknowledge that this work is in its early stages, and whoever delivers the provision will be navigating new territory. Because of this, we welcome a range of approaches including applications from joint partnerships between existing perpetrator service providers and by-and-for organisations. 

How to Apply 

  • Step 1: Complete a short Expression of Interest (EOI). 
  • Step 2: Receive the Commissioning Brief and Service Specification by email for review. 
  • Step 3: Submit your application by 12pm on 13 January 2025. 

Access the EOI form here 

Questions?  

  • You can submit questions regarding the tendering process and programme from 2 – 20 December 2024, either in writing or by participating in an online Q&A session scheduled for 2pm on 20 December 2024. 
  • The Drive Partnership will reply at regular intervals, to all questions, by email, to all applicants.