The National Redress Scheme is not yet open for applications.
When it opens, regardless of where you live or where your experience of abuse occurred, you are encouraged to apply.
Eligible applicants may receive financial redress, therapeutic, spiritual and emotional support, acknowledgment of wrongdoing on the part of the Church, apology and support.
Survivor input at every stage
Survivors and victims generously contribute their time and energy to help develop the Redress Scheme.
A number of people with experience of Church-related abuse make up the Redress Survivor Working Group and meet regularly to consider different aspects of the Scheme’s design.
Two members of the Survivor Working Group sit on the Redress Project Board overseeing the Scheme's development, while others contribute to different discussions about specific areas of the Scheme’s delivery.
To learn more about who is involved in developing the Redress Scheme, please visit the FAQ section.
To contact the Redress Project Team, email: [email protected]
Latest updates from the Redress Project
Support for survivors
If you are a survivor of Church-related abuse and are in need of urgent or immediate support, please take a look at the Interim Support Scheme.
If you would like additional support, you can also contact Safe Spaces, which is a free and independent support service, providing a confidential, personal and safe space for anyone who has been abused by someone in the Church or as a result of their relationship with the Church of England.
As an alternative, you can contact MACSAS, which supports women and men who have been sexually abused, as children or adults, by ministers, clergy or others under the guise of the Church.
There is also Survivors Voices, a survivor-led organisation that runs peer support groups for victim-survivors of all kinds of abuse, including faith-based abuse. It has a newsletter and other special events for survivors of abuse experienced in churches and other faith-based communities.
2023 papers
- Principles, Priorities and Processes - This paper has been put together by the Working Group of survivors and victims of Church-related abuse to communicate our hopes for the Redress Scheme. We have tried to include and represent the voices of other victims and survivors that we have had contact with through the support work and survivor organisations we are connected to.