Sundial Centre | Education to End Harmful Practices in UK

WHAT WE DO

Education on harmful practices including ‘honour’-based abuses

Learning Centre

Education and training

We offer training, lessons and workshops on harmful practices to schools, communities, professionals and services.

If you are a member of the general public, or a private business, then we can also offer training to you.

Click here for a guide to what we offer: training, lessons and workshops.

Our approach

Learning from lived experience

Every workshop is designed and delivered with facilitators from affected communities who bring lived experience on the impacts of harmful practices.

Working with schools

We deliver sensitive, age appropriate lessons for students of all ages on harmful practices, online imagery and body image. We also provide specialist safeguarding training for school staff teams. Our workshops for state schools are free of charge!

Working with services

We support frontline services working with domestic abuse victims from minoritised communities. Our support includes specialist training on issues such as intersectionality, NRPF and transnational marriage abandonment. We also run regular series of Web Cafes to tackle tricky topics and lead the multi-agency Diverse Worlds group.

Working with community groups

We deliver tailored workshop series for community groups, with education on healthy relationships and abuse issues such as “honour”-based abuse. We are respectful of traditional family values in communities and only challenge harm. We run campaigns to share helpline numbers and arts projects for young people to create materials.

We also provide specialist support for services working with women from diverse communities suffering abuse.

“I thought the training was excellent. Well presented, knowledgeable, clear and with good case studies and interactive elements"

“Rubie, Vania and Rashmi recently visited us at Charing Cross Police Station to deliver a talk on Honour Based Abuse and CCB. From the outset, the Sundial Centre were very engaging, and listened to our needs as an organisation, to deliver a ‘bespoke’ presentation to us. Officers who attended, commented on how impactful the presentation was, particularly the lived experience shared by Rubie, and how the theme of her story was incorporated throughout the training. All trainers were absolutely knowledgeable in their field, and delivered the training with a relaxed, approachable manner. We would thoroughly recommend this training to other police services, and agencies who may come across Honour Based Abuse.”

“On behalf of all of us at Cowley Road GP surgery, a huge thank you to Rashmi and Rubie for a fantastic presentation today. It certainly made us think very long and hard about our vulnerable patients and given us some skills to help them. I’m going to draw up a list of the resources to put in our safeguarding folder for people to access and ensure all the public spaces have the relevant information for people to see.We greatly appreciate your time and Rubie’s bravery in sharing such a traumatic story.”

Toolkit

Supporting victim-survivors with protected characteristics: a resources bank

Our free, downloadable toolkit has an evolving list of web resources to support work on types of domestic abuse and harmful practices (e.g. early and forced marriage and FGM). You can sort and select these according to protected characteristics, language/accessibility and topic using the arrows at the top. We’ve also provided a contact list of support organisations. Let us know if there’s anything we should add!

Watch our films

Check out our True Izzat films, available in Urdu, Punjabi and English.

Job Vacancies

Join our team

We are looking for a Communications Manager to support our marketing, press and social media work.

Find out more about the role and how to apply here.

Working together to protect women and children from harmful practices