- Date: 8th May 2024
Researchers uncover hidden homelessness crisis among women and say official rough sleeping counts are failing
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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...
- Date: 30th April 2024
We’ve had the builders in and they’ve created these wonderful new counselling rooms for us
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We’re delighted to announce we’ve have had some rather significant work carried out to our wonderful old building over the past few weeks – and...
- Date: 25th April 2024
‘It was the first time I’d seen my dad cry’ – one of the women we support shares her latest diary entry
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Karen – a familiar face here at The New Futures Project – started keeping a diary late last year – having agreed to share it with us,...
- Date: 19th April 2024
Welcome to Joy – a new NHS website which connects people in need to key services, including New Futures
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We are happy to be part of a new NHS website which makes it easier for people struggling with their health to find a support...
- Date: 11th April 2024
A vital homelessness charity will live on for at least another year thanks to amazing community response
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A respected grassroots homelessness charity which has been living with the threat of closure since late last year has secured its future for at least...
- Date: 11th April 2024
Our view: Urgent action needed now to end the scandal of the mouldy and damp homes our clients are living in
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The housing crisis in this country has many faces – not least of them the damp and mouldy conditions so many people are expected to...
- Date: 4th April 2024
Big news: A prestigious European funding body is to help us protect young people from sexual exploitation
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Protecting women and young people from sexual exploitation is one of the greatest challenges we face at The New Futures Project and as a society. So, we...
- Date: 3rd April 2024
I really like Mondays now and it’s all down to New Futures – one of our counselling clients shares her story
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The most compelling stories we publish on our website tend to be our ‘first person’ pieces – that is, those written by the remarkable women...
- Date: 25th March 2024
Thank you Alysha: We were delighted when one of our newest supporters dropped by with this wonderful donation
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It’s always a good day when a well-wisher drops by with a donation which will directly benefit the women and young people we support here....
- Date: 18th March 2024
Why we welcome new Leicestershire Police campaign to highlight the evil practice of ‘spiking’
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So many of the women and young people we support here at The New Futures Project are living with the trauma of sexual assault. And,...
- Date: 13th March 2024
One of the easiest – and most poignant – ways you could support The New Futures project’s life-changing work
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Earlier this month, we announced our plan to approach the area’s leading businesses to ask them to come up with ways of supporting us in,...
- Date: 7th March 2024
It’s International Women’s Day 2024 – how The New Futures Project is aiming to change our clients’ lives
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Today is International Women’s Day and the theme of the global event this year is ‘Invest in women. Accelerate progress’. According to UN Women: “Gender...
- Date: 6th March 2024
‘Work with us to achieve a real change in our community’ – our director Della’s message to local businesses
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The New Futures Project is to contact hundreds of companies across Leicester and the wider county to ask them to support our life-changing work in...
- Date: 29th February 2024
‘I don’t want to waste my life, so it’s a new year and a new me’ – a woman we support shares her diary
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Karen – a familiar face here at The New Futures Project – began keeping a diary late last year having agreed to share it with us, our...
- Date: 29th February 2024
We’re writing to hundreds of Leicestershire’s biggest companies to ask them to support our life-changing work
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We’re very fortunate to enjoy support for our life-changing work from a broad range of sources, some local and some national. However, we could do...
- Date: 21st February 2024
‘Challenging, but in such a good way’ – a student’s verdict on our level-2 CPCAB-accredited counselling course
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Two people who are attending counselling training with us here at The New Futures Project say the experience so far has been challenging but extremely...
- Date: 19th February 2024
You might not have noticed…. but February is National Payroll giving month – could you help us?
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The amazing staff and volunteers at the New Futures Project can only do what they do thanks to the generosity of funding bodies large and...
- Date: 15th February 2024
Our view: Home office announces ‘lifeline’ cash payments to help women flee abusive partners
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Women desperate to escape abusive relationships can now apply for financial support to build new lives for themselves, including help with the cost of securing...
- Date: 12th February 2024
I was told my depression was untreatable – but everything changed when I came to New Futures
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When she first came to the New Futures Project, Gracie had given up all hope and believed she would have to contend with crippling depression,...
- Date: 9th February 2024
Our latest CPCAB-accredited Level 2 counselling skills course begins soon – how to sign up
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We are delighted to announce the expansion of an exciting venture we began last year – the provision of professional counselling training. The course, a...
- Date: 5th February 2024
Citizens Advice says millions of people cannot afford to heat their homes – and we agree
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Millions of people across the UK are suffering in the cold this winter because they can’t afford to pay their domestic fuel bills, according to...
- Date: 31st January 2024
‘It wasn’t until I had my eyes opened to the abuse I’d suffered that I realised it wasn’t right’
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“Coming to the New Futures Project has been absolutely life-changing for me,” she says simply. Trisha – not her real name – came to us...
- Date: 23rd January 2024
Could you support New Futures in 2024? Women desperately need our life-changing services
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It’s never too late to make a new year’s resolution. Maybe this is the year you decide to make a direct contribution to the life-changing...
- Date: 17th January 2024
Coming to New Futures makes me feel special and has given me a new sense of purpose
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We ask the women who come to us for support to tell their stories in their own words at every opportunity. Here, Debs, who’s been...
- Date: 16th January 2024
A week in the life: A woman we’ve been supporting for years shares her diary
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Recently, we asked one of the women we support to keep a diary and to share its contents with us and our supporters. Karen –...
- Date: 12th January 2024
We’re offering a ‘warm space’ for women to escape the bitter winter cold
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Throughout the year we offer women a safe and secure place to shelter from everything the world can throw at them. Now, with the winter...
- Date: 10th January 2024
Lottery award ensures we can help women dealing with the cost of living crisis
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Shortly before Christmas we were delighted to learn that the National Lottery has awarded us £60,000 to support our ongoing contribution to the fight against poverty in...
- Date: 19th December 2023
Happy Christmas from the New Futures Project – 2023 has been quite a year
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It’s been a challenging but rewarding year for everyone here at the New Futures Project. We continue to be inspired by the women – more...
- Date: 14th December 2023
Why we lit a candle for International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Sex workers
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Over the years, with a sorry inevitability, the New Futures Project has had cause to highlight the violence so many of the women we see are...
- Date: 11th December 2023
We’re terrified some of the women we help will be sleeping in doorways in freezing temperatures
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This is the time of year we become increasingly worried about the women we support – not least those who face sleeping outdoors in freezing...
- Date: 7th December 2023
We asked and you answered – thanks for the Christmas presents for the women we support
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We are lucky to have such kind and generous supporters – a number of whom have stepped in to help us ensure the women we...
- Date: 4th December 2023
Our message of solidarity as Falcon Centre homelessness charity fights closure threat
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The New Futures Project was saddened to hear that a respected homelessness service in the county is fighting for its future after councillors removed its...
- Date: 30th November 2023
Our view on alarming rise in eating disorders among girls and young women
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New NHS figures have exposed the frightening scale of the mental health crisis among young people – with one in five young women aged 17...
- Date: 24th November 2023
We’d love to give Christmas presents to the women we support – can you help us?
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We want to ensure the women we support have the best Christmas they can – however, we can’t do that without a little assistance. We...
- Date: 23rd November 2023
‘The culmination of a dream’ – director Della on our new counselling training course
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On the evening of Wednesday 8th November 2023, a dream came true. The New Futures Project is a local charity supporting women who have experienced...
- Date: 10th November 2023
We want to help women we support to escape the poverty trap – this is our plan
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Women whose early years were scarred by profoundly traumatising experiences such as sexual or physical abuse, neglect or domestic violence inevitably carry those memories with them...
- Date: 8th November 2023
A talented young photographer came to see us and took these wonderful pictures
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Friend of the New Futures Project Natalie Wallinger came in to see us recently facing a rather daunting artistic challenge – to use her photographic...
- Date: 2nd November 2023
Our CPCAB-Accredited Counselling Course begins next week – how to sign up
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Our part-time counselling training course begins next week and there is still time to sign up to take part. The 30-week course leads to a...
- Date: 31st October 2023
Why we are seeking funding for suicide prevention work with our most vulnerable clients
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So many of the traumatised women and young people we see here at New Futures tell us despairing stories of sexual abuse and exploitation, domestic...
- Date: 26th October 2023
How significant grant will help us support some of the most vulnerable women we know
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We’ve received a welcome financial boost to our work with some of the most vulnerable women we encounter. A national funding body – the Weavers’...
- Date: 23rd October 2023
How far we’ve come and where we’re going: New futures director Della’s blog
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You may have known The New Futures Project as a sex work project, writes our director, Della Kagure Brown. When the charity first started we...
- Date: 18th October 2023
We need someone to fill a vital and challenging frontline role – could you do it?
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The New Futures Project is looking for some special people to take on one of the most important and challenging voluntary roles here or, quite...
- Date: 12th October 2023
Why our New drop-in counselling service is a tribute to women we have lost
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The New Futures Project has launched an innovative open-door counselling service for women and young people who are struggling with their mental health but are...
- Date: 9th October 2023
‘The women’s strength and resilience inspire me’ – we speak to a member of our outreach team
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My name is Avril, I work for The New Futures Project. I help out in drop-in, which involves all kinds of things, including cooking nutritious...
- Date: 26th September 2023
Fingers crossed everyone – we’ve been nominated for an award
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We were thrilled to learn this month that we’re in with a chance of winning an exciting local award. We’re delighted to report we’ve been...
- Date: 18th September 2023
Our CPCAB-accredited counselling course begins soon – how to join
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We still have a number of spaces available on an exciting counselling training course we are launching in the next few weeks. The part-time course...
- Date: 18th September 2023
‘You’re treated with respect’ – we speak to one of our long-term clients
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Like so many before her and others to come, drug use was her path to sex work. However, now 33 and expecting a child, she...
- Date: 14th September 2023
We’ve launched a monthly newsletter – this is how you sign up
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We’re about to launch a regular e-mail newsletter to share stories of the women we support and to highlight the work of our remarkable staff...
- Date: 13th September 2023
All About The Juniper Lodge Sexual Assault Referral Centre
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There are still men out there who think paying for sex gives them a right to rape and assault women. Thankfully, staff at Leicestershire’s specialist...
- Date: 14th August 2023
Rising food prices pile more pressure on the women we support
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The rising cost of everyday foods and other essentials is continuing to place unbearable pressure on many of the women who turn to the New...
- Date: 11th August 2023
The National Lottery and its years of invaluable support for New Futures
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New Futures relies on the support of a number of donors – some large, some small. The National Lottery Community Fund has been a vital...
- Date: 9th August 2023
How we prepare social work students for life on the front line
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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...
- Date: 7th August 2023
Report highlights growing threat to women of ‘cyber’ domestic violence
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An increasing number of domestic abuse cases now involve perpetrators using ‘smart’ technology, according to a new report. The Culture, Media and Sport Committee launched its...
- Date: 2nd August 2023
A history of New Futures – told by a long-serving member of the team
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The New Futures Project, then called Women’s Health in Prostitution, was formed in Leicester in 1995 with a simple aim – to make a difference...
- Date: 2nd August 2023
How New Futures can help you take your first steps as a counsellor
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The New Futures Project is to offer part-time counselling training for people who want to take their first steps on the path to qualifying as...
- Date: 2nd August 2023
‘You have to work so fast and think on your feet’, says one of our students
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A social work student who has just completed her 100-day placement with the New Futures Project can look back on the time she spent with...
- Date: 2nd August 2023
How one New Futures supporter turned to us for help in her time of need
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Some people come to New Futures because they’ve reached a point in their lives where they need help. Others come here because they have the...
- Date: 2nd August 2023
‘I Was Astounded By Their Courage And Tenacity’ – A Student’s View Of The Women Supported By New Futures
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There are carers and there are carers who go that little bit further. I can say with certainty that the people I work with here...
- Date: 5th July 2023
Record 4.3 million referrals to specialist mental health services in 2021
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Mental health services received a record 4.3 million referrals during 2021 as the pandemic continued to take a toll on people’s mental health, according to...
- Date: 5th July 2023
Child referrals for mental health care in England up 39% in a year
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Pandemic, social inequality, austerity and online harm fuelling soaring NHS referrals, say experts Click the link below to read more… https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/03/child-referrals-for-mental-health-care-in-england-up-39-in-a-year
- Date: 26th February 2023
‘Why I Love Mondays’ – The New futures Project is a great place to work
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I work at The New Futures Project. It’s a small local charity supporting vulnerable women. Women who are experiencing some difficulties which are making them depressed,...