Our Charity

Reducing the Risk of Domestic Abuse was founded in 2007 with the goal of:

  • Increasing the safety and wellbeing of adults and children at risk through domestic abuse and protecting people who are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation

  • Strengthening our community’s capacity to keep vulnerable people safe, promoting good practice and fostering multi-agency partnership to tackle domestic abuse together effectively

Reducing the Risk Conference

We are dedicated to the safety and empowerment of victims of abuse and of those who support them whether they be professionals, volunteers, or friends and family.

Our core values of compassion, empowerment, and transparency are centred by our tailored, one-on-one support for victim-survivors.

As a charity we aspire to be:

  • A beacon of good practice

  • Collaborative – working in partnership – and flexible to meet new needs

  • Local with national impact – recognising the importance of grass-roots expertise

We are a small local charity but we have had a significant impact on work in our field both strategically and operationally.

The charity consists of a Prevention team and a Provision team which work in tandem to act and react effectively in tackling domestic abuse.

Prevention Team

How we Act

Reducing the Risk believes in raising awareness about domestic abuse; how to spot the signs, effectively support others, and most importantly, not to make matters worse.

We now have 5800+ Domestic Abuse Champions in our network and we’re still growing!

Our training team offers a wide spectrum of training sessions and resources all varying in depth. From professionals working closely with victim-survivors, to concerned friends, to curious individuals interested in expanding their knowledge of domestic abuse, there is something for everyone.

Interested in learning more about domestic abuse and knowing what to do when you come across it? Find out more about how you can access our training here.

Provision Team

How we React

Our High-risk Independent Domestic Violence Advisory (IDVA) service was founded in January 2008 and has since worked with more than 3000 victims of domestic abuse and their children.

They provide invaluable support to individual victim-survivors through their commitment to Oxfordshire’s Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) – integrating multi-agency support to coordinate safety plans and resources to help victim-survivors build safe lives.

We are also proud to be the 1 in 20 IDVA services in the country which offers specialised Court IDVA support. Do you or someone you know need help applying for a Non-Molestation Order or navigating the court system in a domestic abuse case? Find out more about what we can do for you here.

Dr. Jane Monkton-Smith

Dr. Jane Monkton-Smith is a Chair at the University of Gloucester and Professor of Public Protection. She is an award-winning author. Her expertise is in the area of homicide, coercive control, and stalking. She is an advisor to the police and other agencies at both national and local level, and is an Independent Chair for Homicide Reviews. Her most recent research elucidates the ‘eight steps’ to homicide, and prior to this she designed and developed a domestic abuse and stalking response tool (DART).

Frank Mullane MBE

Frank Mullane MBE is Director of the charity AAFDA  - Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse - and a member of the government’s Victims’ Advisory Panel. He is a visiting lecturer and assessor for the University of Gloucester, a Reader for Home Office Quality Assurance – Domestic Homicide Reviews and a trustee of AVA (Against Violence and Abuse).