Empowering Nottingham Since 1990

POW Nottingham Ltd is a non-profit, voluntary organisation supporting the rights of sex workers and those at risk of being exploited. POW recognises and supports the rights of individual sex workers to self-determination. This includes the right to remain in or leave sex work. POW aims to empower our diverse community, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education, advocacy and peer support.

POW's Impact

In 2020 an anonymised case study was completed with someone who accessed POW services for a number of years. This person had the following feedback to give about POW’s impact on their life and gave permission for us to publish this on their behalf:

POW supported person Z for over 2 years. In this time this person was able to access healthy relationship counselling, attend community college courses and maintain abstinence from substance misuse. Because of working with POW they said they felt more confident in themselves, more included in the community and had a focus for their future.

From 2018-2019 POW supported 266 individuals through it’s various services and projects.

Feedback from people who use POW services included

“If POW wasn’t there, I wouldn’t have anywhere else to go”
“They are the only people I can trust. Everyone else seems to want to make me fail”

We work closely with a number of partner agencies in the statutory, private and third sector to help overcome barriers and support people who access POW. Some of the feedback from our last evaluation from our partners included:

 
“I think that POW’s services have kept women engaging with other services, with their families and in some cases kept women alive”
“POW contributes hugely to the welfare and wellbeing of all of its clients and without it many vulnerable people would be extremely ill, hungry, homeless, scared and many other secondary issues that affect their lives”
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