LEEDS WOMEN AND GIRLS CONSORTIUM RECEIVE £2,022,528 BIG LOTTERY FUNDING Basis Yorkshire is proud to be part of Women’s Lives Leeds – a partnership that will place women and girls at the heart of the successful investment of Big Lottery funding in Leeds, as part of a national programme of investment bringing together services with … Continue reading Women’s Lives Leeds program being launched!
Kate Brown nominated for Yorkshire Women of Achievement Award We’re very proud that our Chair of Trustees Dr Kate Brown, lecturer and researcher at The University of York’s Dep. of Social Policy and Social Work has been nominated for the Yorkshire Women of Achievement Awards. She has been nominated in the category of Community Award … Continue reading Basis Chair nominated for Yorkshire Women of Achievement
Ever since the news broke that the managed approach pilot was to become permanent, shortly after the murder of Daria Pionko in December 2015, the “managed area” became national news. At the time, as a small organisation supporting sex workers in Leeds in support of the managed approach, we did not have the capacity to … Continue reading A human perspective to the managed approach to Sex Work in Leeds
We are currently experiencing higher than usual levels of interest from the press in our work as a charity supporting women working in the sex industry in Leeds. We kindly request you send us an email: amber.wilson@basisyorkshire.org.uk or 0113 – 243 0036 (if urgent please call 07941 41 41). Please bear in mind that due … Continue reading Press Enquiries BasisSexWork
Basis Sex Work Project has been awarded funding by NHS Leeds South and East Clinical Commissioning Group to reduce the barriers faced by sex workers in accessing health services. NHS Leeds South and East Clinical Commissioning Group is the NHS organisation responsible for buying and planning healthcare for people living in the South and East … Continue reading Basis Sex Work awarded funding by NHS Leeds East & South CCG