ABOUT THE NEW FUTURES PROJECT.

Our story.

A registered charity, the New Futures Project was created in 2003 to support women exposed to the violence and exploitation inherent in sex work.

However, we’ve greatly broadened our focus in the past few years and now help women and girls who are living with the traumatic legacies of sexual violence, grooming and exploitation, and domestic abuse.

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Many of these women are coping with the corrosive effects of poverty and social exclusion.

Many have stories to tell of poor mental health, addiction and troubled childhoods in care or in neglectful, even abusive, families.

Each year, we work intensively with approximately 400 adult women and 100 girls, (from the age of 11), who are facing up to the worst that life could have thrown at them.

We help them through a combination of trauma-informed counselling and practical, everyday social work - assistance with matters of health, housing, welfare rights, criminal justice/probation, and immigration/asylum.

Demand for our services has never been higher.

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The film below explains, with great sensitivity and poignancy, how we work.

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It was made by our friends at Leicester's De Montfort University and was funded by Women In Philanthropy and the Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation.