Publications
This page contains links to further resources and information about Make a Change.
If you have specific questions and you can’t find what you’re looking for, please get in touch and let us know.
Impact and evaluation
Make a Change's recent impact reports, showing the project’s growth and the positive impact on survivor’s confidence and safety.
Out now: Make a Change Impact Report 2024-2025
Our latest impact report shows that Make a Change is transforming the behaviour of people causing harm at the earliest opportunity, connecting survivors with specialist services for the first time, and equipping professionals to respond with confidence to people causing harm.
One in three people causing harm self-referred, which shows strong demand for voluntary early help. But with referrals to Make a Change from outside of the areas we operate in rising by 10% over the last year, investment in the programme is needed to ensure Make a Change can respond to demand and support even more people across the country to stop causing harm earlier.
Read the impact report now.
Researchers from the University of Stirling (Jane Callaghan et al.) conducted an evaluation of the programme in its first two pilot sites in 2019-2020. It concluded that Make a Change represented an important new intervention in the domestic abuse service landscape.
Service leaflets
Make a Change is currently available in Coventry, Durham, Newcastle and Sunderland – each site has its own leaflet that includes specific service details. You can use these to find out more about Make a Change for yourself or someone you know, or to share with people you work with who you feel could benefit from the programme.
Domestic abuse and health pilot
Make a Change’s health pilot impact report sets out key policy and practice recommendations to support the health sector to develop survivor-centred, safe responses to patients and staff perpetrating domestic abuse and address current gaps.
Policy and research
Our briefing paper, Make a Change: A community-based solution to gaps in domestic abuse provision, sets out some of the policy issues the sector is currently facing and how the Make a Change model provides solutions and fills gaps in provision.
In 2023, the Home Office published its Standards for Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Interventions and included Make a Change as an example of a recommended behaviour change programme.
Researchers Jane Callaghan, Laura Bellussi and Joanne Alexander explored the viability of Make a Change to support older adults and LGBTQ+ individuals. Both consultations found the programme could be appropriate for these groups, with specialist adaptation and stakeholder co-design.
Other support options
If you need help or support and Make a Change is not currently in your area, please take a look at the below national resources.
For people using harmful behaviours, their friends and family, and professionals working with them:
Respect Phoneline: Call 0808 802 4040 from 10am-5pm Monday to Friday, or visit respectphoneline.org.uk (webchat is available on Thursdays from 2-4pm)
For anyone experiencing abuse:
National Domestic Abuse Helpline: Call 0808 2000 247, open 24 hours a day, or visit nationaldahelpline.org.uk
For men experiencing abuse:
Men's Advice Line: Call 0808 801 0327 from 10am-5pm Monday to Friday, or visit mensadviceline.org.uk (webchat is available on Wednesdays from 10-11.30am and Thursdays from 2-4pm)
If you need to talk:
Samaritans: Call 116 123, open 24 hours a day, or visit samaritans.org
If you are in an emergency and need immediate support:
Please call 999
