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
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)
In the past few weeks we’ve seen an increase in articles about the Managed Approach; though our workload is higher than ever we’ve taken the time to write this statement in the hope that it will offer insight into the complexity and nuance that the situation deserves and so often lacking in the articles we … Continue reading Statement Basis Yorkshire April 2023
As a charity that supports women who sex work and women and young people who are sexually exploited, we know: how hard it is to ask for help: ITSNOTOK to be afraid you won’t be believed. that people who experience racism and people from LGBTQ+ communities may find it even harder to ask … Continue reading #ITSNOTOK
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