Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Learning from each other and the communities we support
At Solace, we are committed to ensuring survivors and our colleagues feel supported, appreciated and included, and continue to challenge ourselves on how best to achieve this vision. Based on staff feedback and sector standards, we continuously evolve our practices in this area, learning from each other and the communities for whom Solace exists.
We place the values of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at the centre of our organisation, weaving it throughout our ways of working in visible, measurable and accountable ways. As an organisation, we strive to address the multiple and intersecting experiences of discrimination, disadvantage and oppression experienced by the survivors we support, our staff and volunteers.
We are committed to listening, reflecting, and responding so that our work to end male violence against women and girls is intersectional and anti-discriminatory, as well as psychologically informed.
To guide our practice, we have a number of mechanisms to gather insight into the experience of Solace colleagues. Regularly occurring staff surveys, which include questions specific to EDI, run alongside ongoing feedback mechanisms, which include an EDI and Culture Steering Group, CEO Town Halls and next-in-line meetings, in which colleagues provide feedback to their manager’s manager.
Over the past few years we have implemented internal forums for people of colour, the LGBTQIA+ community and people with diverse abilities (visible and invisible disabilities). Community members play an essential role in developing our ways of working and organisational projects.
Read more about Solace’s work in this area, below.
We are trans-inclusive
Solace has an inclusive definition of women, which includes trans women. We understand that misogyny affects trans women and non-binary people, alongside the same patriarchal frameworks that cause harm to cis women and girls. Our services therefore support and represent trans women and non-binary people.
Solace already supports trans survivors in our services, and we are working on a new trans, gender diverse and non-binary policy which will clarify how all our services can be more explicitly trans-inclusive.
We are developing guidance and training to staff on supporting trans survivors in their services, in addition to the LGBTQ+ and Domestic Abuse training that Galop currently provide us.
Anti-Racism Charter
Solace is a signatory of the VAWG Sector Anti-Racism Charter and we strive to incorporate its recommendations into our work. The Charter sets out a vision for an anti-racist approach for the violence against women and girls sector.
Collaborative policy consultation process
At Solace, colleagues can help to shape internal policy development and reviews through a fully transparent process from start to finish.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: how Solace supports colleagues
16 Mar 2026
Find out more about how we support colleagues in the essential area of EDI.
Our Partnerships, Campaigns and Collaborations
16 Mar 2026
Solace partners with 42 organisations including ‘by and for’ organisations supporting Black and Global Majority women and disabled women.