Our work
We work to raise awareness of economic abuse and ensure that every part of society – from banks and courts to local councils and the child maintenance service – recognises this form of domestic abuse and effectively supports victim-survivors.
Our work is shaped by the Experts by Experience Group – a network of women who have experienced economic abuse and whose insights inform everything we do. Their expertise, combined with our rigorous research and strong partnerships with frontline services, helps us drive lasting change.
We influence policy, legislation, and professional practice at the highest levels. Through specialist training, we ensure that when a survivor reaches out, whether to a police officer, a housing officer, or their bank, they are listened to, believed, and supported.
We focus on driving lasting change through four strategic goals:
- Increase public understanding of economic abuse and begin to change the behaviours that drive it: We work to raise public awareness of economic abuse, including how to access support, and to begin tackling public behaviour changes.
- Transform local frontline responses to tackle economic abuse: We work with local services – like councils, domestic abuse organisations, banks, and debt advisors – to help them build stronger, coordinated, local responses to economic abuse in every community.
- Drive legal, regulatory, and policy change to support victim-survivors and disrupt abusers: We will campaign to change laws, regulations, and policies to close down opportunities for abusers, ensure survivors are supported, and prevent economic abuse at scale.
- Work with the financial services sector to ensure consistently good practice across the industry: We will work collaboratively with the financial services industry to build consistent, survivor-centred responses to economic abuse.
Read more about our work in our 2025-2028 strategy, ‘Changing systems, saving lives’.
How we work
To drive lasting change for victim-survivors of economic abuse, we are committed to understanding the problems they face and working with others to maximise our reach and impact. Three core principles are at the heart of our work:
We are survivor-centred
Our work is shaped by economic abuse victim-survivors. We continue to grow the community of diverse victim-survivors we work alongside and centre their knowledge and lived experiences in all that we do.
We work in partnership
We work in partnership with others to drive systemic change in response to economic abuse at scale. This includes working with frontline organisations that directly support victim-survivors. Although we do not deliver direct support to victim-survivors, we provide vital online information and resources to help survivors seek support. We are an associate member of Women’s Aid and endorse its aims.
We are evidence-based
We use research and evidence to expose the scale and impact of economic abuse, ensuring victim-survivors’ experiences drive change. We translate data into action, shaping policy, influencing practice, and equipping professionals across sectors to respond more effectively.
