Oxfordshire Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre

Who we are

We are a collective of women committed to supporting survivors of sexual abuse, rape, and harassment. We offer a free and confidential service to individuals who are dealing with the effects of sexual violence, and to anyone who is supporting them. 

We offer counselling, support groups, advocacy, psychoeducation sessions, drop-in groups and listening services. The majority of our services is open to self-identifying women and non-binary individuals recorded female at birth.Our advocacy service is open to survivors of all genders.

Our culture and values

Non-directive

We do not try to influence survivors to take any particular action, nor do we try to impose our views on their decisions. We help survivors to explore their options, in a way that does not pressure them to choose any specific path.

Non-judgmental

We do not judge the survivors who use our service or other OSARCC members, but we do not permit abuse of others and will challenge discrimination.

Empowerment

We aim to empower survivors to make their own decisions and to support them in whatever way they need.

Confidentiality

Whatever a survivor says is confidential to the organisation within the limits of our safeguarding policies.

Free

We provide a service free of charge in order to be accessible to all survivors.

Challenging discrimination

We are a non-directive and non-judgmental organisation, but we will challenge discrimination in any form.

Committed to good practice

We work hard to ensure our services are consistently offering high-quality support. We welcome feedback from the survivors we support to ensure we are able to continue to develop our services. Please see the feedback page for more details.

Led by women

OSARCC believes that sexual violence is both a cause and consequence of women’s inequality and discrimination. We are therefore committed to challenging such discrimination in our work, running our services for survivors by women, delivering our services in a safe, women-only space, and working within an empowerment approach.

Belief

We believe what survivors tell us. Furthermore, we firmly believe that rape is never the fault of the survivor and we actively seek to challenge this myth.