MSP is a specialised sexual abuse charity that acts as an umbrella organisation for agencies within the sexual abuse sector that offer services to male survivors.  It is a membership organisation and holds the UK's only Male Quality Standards, ensuring services within the sexual abuse sector are providing, appropriate, sensitive and qualitative services to male services of sexual abuse, our beneficiaries.

The MSP was formed in 2019 and is still in the process of working through its current business plan to develop and deliver a range of services to members.  The current remit is:

To work together, both as organisations and leaders in the field of male sexual violation (including but not restricted to childhood sexual abuse, rape, sexual assault and sexual exploitation) in order to provide:

“a central evidence, standards and support, hub for services specific for male survivor of sexual

abuse, rape and sexual exploitation, along with those general or mixed gender organisations

providing specific project based services for male survivors”

and who wish to do some or all of the following:

1. Information share, for example:

(i) Media articles/academic research

(ii) Resources for inclusion on member partners’ website

(iii) Reporting from own networks and areas of expertise

(iv) FOIs from each organisation’s areas of work

(v) Statutory consultations

2.  Work together and support each other on a partnership or collective basis as they see fit, for

example:

(i) Debates

(ii) Conferences

(iii) Joint letters

(iv) Research

(v) Campaigning

(vi) FOIs

(vii) Media Opportunities

3. Gain wider awareness of the range of issues affecting male survivors of sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation;
4. Participate, where possible, on individual and discrete initiatives that give a collective voice to the issues affecting male survivors of sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation;
5. The Male Survivors Partnership will, on occasion, collaborate and work with, and, support non partnership organisations who share a common objective or interest on a particular issue.