If you have been groomed, or feel that you've possibly been groomed, CAAGe wants to record your experiences to get a fuller picture of what's happening and its effects.

About this survey

The survey will be used to:

• Support campaigning, including responses to government white papers;

• Help develop the services that CAAGe (the Campaign Against Adult Grooming) delivers in the future;

• Back up the literature that we are currently creating on grooming;

• Support related campaigns that progress our cause, raising awareness of, and offering protection against, adult grooming.

Get started

Take the research survey here: Adult Grooming Survey

• The data you give us is totally anonymous. The answers you provide will be added together and will only be shared where there is a reasonable 'sample size' ie there are enough answers for it to be truly anonymous.

• Your survey information is collected o platform called Survey Monkey. This is their Privacy Policy.

• We do not share any source data with any third parties, but may use the results of the survey to raise awareness of the issues created by adult grooming.

You’ve been groomed? You are completely normal!!

And the good news is…..

However you may feel, or how others are making you feel, about having been groomed, data shows that the grooming is about the groomer, not about their targets. You are as normal as anyone else!!

Research into victims of grooming

Stay in touch

Whilst many people find it validating to see that others share similar experiences to them, we are conscious that completing this survey may also trigger some unpleasant memories for you. If you need to talk, we're here: Contact us

Your Data

Despite the promises of AI and the speed at which it would allow us to use the data we’ve been given, we have made the decision that we do not have your consent to do this. There is an inherent bias in the way that these systems work and we want to work this data ourselves. This may be slower, but we feel it’s both more trustworthy and more beneficial to our understanding of grooming.

The information you share with us, anonymously, is held on Google Sheets in a secure environment, with access to the raw data available to just one person in CAAGe to process. The aggregated data will be shared to support campaigning, but, as we noted above, nothing will ever be revealed that can identify individuals. (This is the privacy policy for Google Sheets: Policy.)