The New Futures Project

Welcome to The New Futures Project – a women’s therapeutic and recovery centre. We are a trauma-informed service providing holistic support for women and young people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Please watch our video below to learn more about the life-changing support that we offer and how you can get involved.

We want to use the experience and learning we have gained from over twenty years of working with this client group to instigate and support generational change, supporting women to break the cycle of abuse, exploitation, poverty and marginalisation which in many cases has been present within families for multiple generations.

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The National Lottery and its years of invaluable support for New Futures

New Futures relies on the support of a number of donors – some large, some small. The National Lottery Community Fund has been a vital and consistent source of funds for the project for almost 20 years. In fact, since 2005, it has invested approximately £1.2 million into New Futures to help it sustain and […]

How we prepare social work students for life on the front line

The New Futures Project is helping the next generation of social workers get ready for life on the frontline. We offer placements to social work students from universities in Leicester and further afield, enabling dozens of undergraduates to spend between 70 and 100 days at the project helping the women it supports. Each student is placed […]

Researchers uncover hidden homelessness crisis among women and say official rough sleeping counts are failing

Official rough-sleeping statistics greatly underestimate the true scale of homelessness among women up and down the country, according to research published this week. A report compiled by a group of women’s welfare and homelessness organisations argues the official annual rough sleeping count misses hundreds of women – meaning their plight remains unrecognised and, crucially, unresolved. […]