Author: Amber Wilson

Basis awarded funding for Adult Sexual Exploitation

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded new, multi-year funding as part of our Adult Sexual Exploitation (ASE) partnership. The ASE Partnership (formerly known as STAGE) led by Changing Lives was established in 2019 to support women who had been targeted for abuse across the North East and Yorkshire. The partnership is … Continue reading Basis awarded funding for Adult Sexual Exploitation »

Basis Yorkshire position on Trans Inclusion

Basis aims to end stigma, create safety and promote empowerment for women who sex work and women and young people who are sexually exploited. Our young people’s services are inclusive to all gender identities and our adult services are inclusive to self-identified transgender women and non-binary adults. We recognise that within the communities we work … Continue reading Basis Yorkshire position on Trans Inclusion »

New Funding: SWISVA Advocacy Partnership

National Ugly Mugs, POW Nottingham and Basis Yorkshire are excited and proud to have been awarded 3 year funding for our SWISVA Partnership program offering advocacy for sex workers affected by sexual violence. The program will aim to improve health outcomes,increased access to  recovery and healing spaces, crisis and other services and improved experiences of … Continue reading New Funding: SWISVA Advocacy Partnership »

Big Give Violence Against Women & Girls (Oct 11- 18)

Hearing about violence committed against the women and young people we work with is an every day occurrence at Basis. Such violence is in often repeated, ongoing, extreme levels of violence, often by people women and girls thought they could trust.  For others its violence that is perpetrated on victims of which the perpetrators somehow … Continue reading Big Give Violence Against Women & Girls (Oct 11- 18) »