AMPLIFY WOMEN’S VOICES AND INFLUENCE CHANGE AMBITION

Our objectives are to centre women’s voices and experience across all aspects of our work and ensure that all services for women are co-designed with them. We recognise the need to increase our networks and influence in local, regional and national strategies and conversations in relation to sex work, women, multiple disadvantage, race, ethnicity, gender and the particular needs of the most under-served and marginalised women in order to influence change meaningfully.

We will do this by:

Supporting women to use their lived experience, insights and skills to influence change for women who are or have been sex working, or may start to sex work, at an individual, service and systems level.

Strengthening our strategic influencing across Greater Manchester including facilitating a GM-wide sex work strategy.

Building partnerships with grassroots groups advocating for sex workers’ rights, racial and social justice, LGBTQ and disability rights.

Strengthening alliances and partnerships with national campaigning and influencing organisations and sex worker organisations to support women-led change at a national level.

Co-designing a training offer to upskill other organisations to better meet the needs of women who are, have been or may start sex working and facing multiple disadvantage and increase understanding and expertise around gender and trauma responsive approaches for women.