Chair’s Report

As Chair of Survive’s Trustees, I would like to welcome you to our Annual Report for 2002. With funding secured from the Community Fund and the Selby and York Primary Care Trust, this year has seen Survive grow, develop and change. With change often comes struggle and difficulty and this first year has had its moments. However, we are all grateful for everyone’s cooperation in getting through these first months relatively easily. I was able at last, to take more of a back seat and spend more time at home instead of in the office.

Sharon has worked diligently in setting up the new office, networking with other agencies and getting to grips with the new policies and procedures! She has helped us to move forward in leaps and bounds and we are sure Survive will progress in her hands.

At our Annual General Meeting in October we unanimously passed a change in direction for Survive. After 11 years of providing services for women only, we changed our constitution to include male survivors. There is currently no help available for male survivors in this area.

This year we have seen many developments in the organisation and I would like to highlight several:

• Weekly counselling sessions offered in Selby
• Establishment of a successful multi-agency Steering Group, presently focusing on developing our male survivors service
• Introducing and working through the quality standard PQASSO
• Redesigning of the Frontline Services
• Establishment of a Foundation Training Programme for Frontline volunteers
• Development of Survive’s quarterly newsletter, Transitions
• Improved IT communications
• Development of in-service training for staff and volunteers

 
I would like to thank all our sponsors, particularly the City of York Council, and all those members of Survive who have given their time, commitment and enthusiasm, without whom we could not continue to provide a valuable service to survivors of childhood sexual abuse.