Surveys and Consultations

Take part in these surveys and consultations to make your thoughts and experiences heard.

Use Your Voice!

There are lots of ways to use your voice. Here are some opportunities to have your say and influence change that can help prevent sexual violence and improve the services that are offered to survivors.

To provide feedback on Notts SVSS, the easiest way is to use our online feedback form or phone the helpline on 0115 941 0440.

Call out for contributors – ‘See #Me(Too): A Survey About Male Victim/Survivors’

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The male sexual violence support charity, We Are Survivors, has teamed up with Movember to find out what the public think about and understand about male victims / survivors of sexual harms.

The survey is open to all UK adults aged 18 or over, regardless of sex, gender, ethnicity, religion or class, as they want to hear from as many men, women, trans, non-binary people from as many different communities as possible! They want to better understand how societal attitudes could impact men affected by sexual harms in their ability to speak out, to access support and maybe feel forced into silence.

Sexual harms refers to any sexual activity that was unwanted that happened at any point in the individual’s life. All answers will remain anonymous.

Please take the quick two minute survey to add your voice.

Our Own Words 2027: Adult Survivor Survey

Our Own Words is a survivor-led survey into how domestic abuse research is conducted. Every year, Our Own Words runs a survey to track whether anything is actually changing for survivors. Every question in the survey was designed by survivors themselves, rather than researchers or professionals. Our Own Words has now launched their survey for 2027.

You can find out more about Our Own Words at www.ourownwords.net and take part in the survey via this link.

This survey is anonymous and confidential. You can skip any questions you don’t want to answer. It should take about 20-30 minutes to complete.

The Big Menopause Survey

This survey asks your views on what good menopause care really looks like, from healthcare professionals and employers. Your answers will help Menopause Mandate work with the NHS, employers and decision-makers to make sure these changes truly work for women. They’ll also support important research at University College London into menopause support experiences, and brain fog.
To find out more and take part in this survey, follow this link. The survey will take around 10-15 minutes, and it’s completely anonymous.

Anonymous Survivor Survey

ITV News are launching an investigation into the scale of sexual assault and rape carried out by a partner against women who were incapacitated or unconscious. They will use the answers you provide for research purposes and will use anonymised data from this survey for reporting on ITV News to help us illustrate the scale of these crimes.

You can find out more and complete the survey on this webpage.

For support with the issues raised in this survey, please reach out to us (Notts SVSS) or contact the 24hr National Sexual Violence and Abuse Helpline.

Future of the Undercover Policing Inquiry

This consultation seeks views on the future structure, scope and format of the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Respondents are invited to focus on how the Inquiry’s remaining objectives could best be achieved.

You can find out more and complete the consultation on the Gov.UK website.

This consultation closes 20/09/2026.

Safe Journeys for Women and Girls

The Transport Committee has launched an Inquiry looking at how effectively the Government is keeping women and girls safe as they travel, and what more could be done to ensure that they can make their journeys without fear of violence, intimidation or harassment.

You can find out more and complete the consultation on the UK Parliament website.

This consultation closes 09/10/2026.

Equal Pay and Pay Discrimination

The Office for Equality and Opportunity is seeking views on how best to reform the current equal pay framework. This consultation aims to get your views on how they can address gaps and inconsistencies in the framework currently affecting disabled people, those from ethnic minority groups, and outsourced workers.

This consultation is open to anyone interested in or affected by these issues, especially those who may be most affected by the different measures relating to pay discrimination policy, including:

employers
trade unions
public sector bodies
women’s sector, race and disability stakeholders
legal experts and practitioners, including HR and pay and reward specialists
individuals with lived experience of pay discrimination

You can find out more and complete the consultation on the Government website.

This consultation closes 27/10/2026.

Do you know a young person aged 13–24 who grew up with domestic abuse at home? Their voice could help improve support for other young survivors in our City.

Juno Women’s Aid are inviting young people of all genders and identities to take part in a safe and supportive consultation about what helped them, what support could have made a difference, and what services should understand better.

This is NOT about asking young people to talk about the abuse itself.

We know taking part in something like this can feel daunting, so we want young people and parents/carers to know: