This project is led by five Christians who have created this 'Safe Faiths' survey because they are concerned that there is little or no research or quantitative data that explores whether Takatāpui/Rainbow people of faith feel safe attending their church or faith community. The results of this survey will be used to raise awareness of issues faced by Takatāpui/Rainbow people of faith in Aotearoa New Zealand and to support Takatāpui/Rainbow advocacy work, both within the church and more widely.

It is important for us that this project is as inclusive as possible. Although the primary focus of this survey relates to experiences of Christian communities, we have chosen to use the phrase ‘faith community’ in order to capture the wide variety of Christian experience, which include church communities, worship spaces, and other places where people of faith gather. Please feel free to respond to the survey questions thinking about your own community of faith and faith spaces.

This project replicates a 2021 survey that was conducted in the UK and carried out by the Ozanne Foundation and a coalition of nine Rainbow Christian organisations. It was overseen by an independent academic research advisor. This survey gathered Rainbow Christian perspectives on how safe they felt within the churches they attended. More information about this survey is available here. The Ozanne Foundation has given us permission to replicate their survey and to modify it to suit our context of Aotearoa New Zealand.