Kia ora tatou,

First of all, a big thank you to everyone who completed the ‘Safe Faiths’ survey. There were 375 valid responses to the survey. We were blown away by your response, and also with the honest korero that you shared with us. Much of this korero is heart wrenching. Our research team want to acknowledge the personal stories that you have shared with us. This korero, this taonga, will be handled with respect, sensitivity and confidentiality by the research team. Thank you for entrusting us with your korero.

 

We wanted to share with you where we are up to in the survey process, and what is coming up.

• This month (March 2025) we have just started the analysis of the 375 survey responses.  The research team will be taking a bit of time to analyse the responses we have received, with 34 of the 41 questions being closed questions, and seven questions being open. There is a tremendous amount of data to analyse, including summarising the main themes in the open-ended question responses, where there has been a huge response.

• Some preliminary findings will be shared at the upcoming Awaken Conference to be held in Auckland from Friday April 4th to Sunday April 6th, 2025.

• We hope to have a final report completed by the beginning of May 2025.

• We will be launching the report and sharing the survey results around this time also. We will advertise and share the details about the launch so that you can attend if you wish.

 

Finally, our research team want to thank you for being a part of this important work of raising the 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/faith spaces and more widely.

 

Arohanui,

Jessica, Craig, Laiseni, Richard, Petra, Jacynthia & Paul