Surviving Economic Abuse

What Surviving Economic Abuse does

Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) is a UK-registered charity founded in 2017 that operates as the country's only organization focused exclusively on economic abuse as a distinct form of domestic abuse. The charity serves two principal audiences: victim-survivors (predominantly women experiencing economic abuse by a current or former intimate partner) and professionals across financial services, legal services, debt advice, employers, local authorities, and the women's sector. SEA operates from a small London-based team of 11–50 employees with charitable registrations in both England and Wales (1173256) and Scotland (SC051495).

SEA's offering is built around a website-based platform delivering free information resources, a statistically validated economic abuse screening tool, sector-specific conversation kits, and the Economic Abuse Evidence Form used in legal proceedings. The CEDEAS Helpline, delivered in partnership with frontline operator Money Advice Plus, provides specialized financial support to victim-survivors. Survivor-led governance is operationalized through the Experts by Experience Group and the Survivors' Forum, while The Compass Project, ongoing research outputs, and active policy influencing on UK legislation extend the organization's systemic impact beyond direct service delivery.

SEA's revenue model is donation-led, supplemented by fee-based professional training (standard and bespoke courses for financial services, legal, debt advice, employer, and public sector audiences) and corporate fundraising partnerships. All victim-survivor-facing services are provided free of charge. The organization has published a 2025–2028 strategy and is currently engaging with UK Government reform of cohabitation and financial remedy law, signaling an intent to consolidate its position as the sector's reference body.

Name

Surviving Economic Abuse

Legal name

Surviving Economic Abuse

Website

https://survivingeconomicabuse.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Surviving Economic Abuse is a UK-registered charity that provides free resources, screening tools, conversation kits, and professional training to support victim-survivors of economic abuse and equip financial, legal, debt, and employer professionals to identify and respond to it.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Domestic Abuse Support Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Domestic Violence & Abuse Support Services (BPAGAEAD)

Keywords

• Economic abuse support
• Domestic abuse charity
• Survivor advocacy services
• Professional abuse training
• Screening tool development

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Charitable Donations: The organization is a registered charity (number 1173256 in England and Wales, SC051495 in Scotland) that relies on public donations to fund its operations and mission to stop economic abuse.
2. Training Services: SEA offers training courses on economic abuse to professionals including financial services, debt advisers, legal professionals, employers, and local authorities. Training includes both standard courses and bespoke options.
3. Corporate Partnerships and Fundraising: The organization partners with corporate entities for fundraising, including corporate development activities to drive new donor relationships and engage key corporate audiences.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Surviving Economic Abuse is a UK charity that provides standalone professional training courses, a validated economic abuse screening tool, sector-specific conversation kits, and the CEDEAS Helpline to help victim-survivors and professionals (in financial services, legal, debt advice, employers, and women's services) identify and respond to economic abuse. The organization also conducts research, influences policy, and runs survivor-led programs (Experts by Experience Group and Survivors' Forum) to support systemic change around economic abuse as a form of domestic abuse.

Product overview

Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) is a UK-based charity focused on transforming responses to economic abuse through awareness, policy influencing, research, and direct support services. The organization operates a suite of interconnected offerings: research and evidence gathering, policy influencing initiatives, an Experts by Experience Group for survivor-led guidance, a Survivors' Forum for peer support, and specialized training courses for professionals including financial services, debt advice, employers, and legal sectors. Additional offerings include information resources such as screening tools, conversation kits for various professional audiences, the Economic Abuse Evidence Form, The Compass Project, and the CEDEAS Helpline run by Money Advice Plus. The organization also provides guides like Controlling Your Financial Future and a Banking Support Directory for victim-survivors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SEA-Change: Newsletter name for Surviving Economic Abuse communications.

Products and services

• Economic Abuse Training Structured training courses on recognizing and responding to economic abuse, delivered to professionals in financial services, legal services, debt advice, employers, and local authorities. Available as standard or bespoke courses.
• Economic Abuse and Debt Advice Training Specialized training course designed for money and debt advisers to identify economic abuse as the root cause of client debt issues and respond safely.
• Economic Abuse Screening Tool A statistically validated screening instrument that enables support workers and professionals across the UK to identify whether someone is experiencing economic abuse. Responses feed a national dataset enabling analysis by gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and other demographics.
• CEDEAS Helpline A dedicated UK helpline providing specialized financial support tailored to victim-survivors of economic abuse, operated by Money Advice Plus as SEA's frontline partner.
• Economic Abuse Evidence Form A structured tool that helps victim-survivors document and present evidence of economic abuse, designed for use in legal proceedings and legal aid applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• 4.1 million UK women have experienced economic abuse in the past year
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Money Advice PluscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMoney Advice Plus is SEA's frontline partner, running the CEDEAS Helpline which provides specialized financial support tailored to victim-survivors of economic abuse. This partnership is central to SEA's service delivery model for supporting survivors.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Respect: Respect is a UK charity focused on working with perpetrators of domestic abuse and supporting survivors. Comparable as a UK-domestic nonprofit working across the domestic abuse ecosystem with training and accreditation, but distinguishes itself by addressing perpetrators rather than centering the economic-abuse niche.
• SafeLives: SafeLives is a UK charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse through research, training, and tools for frontline services. Comparable in developing evidence-based screening/assessment resources and professional training for domestic abuse response - overlapping with SEA's screening tool and training work.
• Centre for Women's Justice: Centre for Women's Justice is a UK charity focused on challenging systemic injustice against women, including domestic and economic abuse through strategic litigation and policy work. Comparable in providing policy/legal advocacy related to economic abuse in the family justice system, overlapping with SEA's legal sector guidance.

Direct peers

• Hestia: Hestia is a London-based UK charity supporting adults and children affected by domestic abuse, modern slavery, and other hidden harms. Comparable as a UK-domestic nonprofit providing direct services and training related to domestic abuse including economic abuse, with a survivor-focused lens.
• Women's Aid (England): Women's Aid is the national federation for women's domestic abuse services in England. Comparable as a UK nonprofit advocating for and supporting domestic abuse survivors (including economic abuse), running training and helpline support, and conducting policy influencing for victim-survivors.
• Solace Women's Aid: Solace provides advice, accommodation and support services for women in London facing domestic abuse. Comparable London-based UK nonprofit serving victim-survivors of domestic abuse including economic abuse, with similar referral, advocacy, and professional training offerings.
• Refuge: Refuge is the UK's largest specialist domestic abuse charity, running the National Domestic Abuse Helpline and refuges. Directly comparable as a UK nonprofit serving victim-survivors of domestic abuse, including economic abuse; differs in being a broader, generalist domestic-abuse provider rather than SEA's narrow economic-abuse focus.
• Scottish Women's Aid: Scottish Women's Aid is the national umbrella body for domestic abuse services in Scotland. Directly comparable: a UK-domestic nonprofit providing refuges, helplines, and training to combat domestic abuse (including economic abuse), operating in the same jurisdictions as SEA.

Others

• Money Advice Plus: Money Advice Plus is a UK debt advice charity and SEA's frontline partner running the CEDEAS Helpline. Directly comparable in providing specialist debt and financial advice to vulnerable clients, and overlapping with SEA's economic-abuse beneficiary cohort - a strategic partner rather than direct competitor.

Broad incumbents

• NNEDV (National Network to End Domestic Violence): NNEDV is a US-based umbrella organization addressing domestic violence through policy, technology safety, and economic-justice programs (e.g., @Work, Survivor Financial Empowerment). Comparable in combining domestic-abuse advocacy with an explicit economic-empowerment / financial-abuse focus, offering training, toolkits, and policy work parallel to SEA's mission.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/SEAresource
• Facebookfacebook.com/SurvivingEconomicAbuse
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/surviving-economic-abuse
• Instagraminstagram.com/survivingeconomicabuse

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