Our goals

Thirty years after One25 was founded, the need for our work remains as urgent as ever.

The women we meet street sex-working in Bristol face profound challenges. They also possess extraordinary strength, resilience and hope.

Our strategic goals for 2025 – 2028

1. Service delivery: provide quality services and develop partnerships to meet women’s needs

Offer a rapid and quality response for women who are street sex-working to support them to exit street sex work
Sustain and build partnerships to ensure that women have external pathways to sustain their exit from street sex work
Maximise resources and impact with internal systems that are efficient and effective
Build power sharing with women who have experience of street sex work

Recent work includes: strengthening our partnership working with the Police, SafeLink and Horizons to enable more coordinated and consistent support for women. The Bridging Gaps group has continued to embed lived experience within service delivery and influencing work, with women actively shaping how services respond to their experiences.

2. Financial sustainability: grow and diversify our income to secure our service delivery

Focus on income opportunities with greatest growth potential
Secure funding for pilot work from new and existing funders
Build a sustainable restricted and unrestricted funding balance

Recent work includes: commissioning external support to develop a clearer theory of change and outcomes framework.

3. Team experience: empower our people to deliver their best work

Sustain a values-based culture where teams feel valued, supported and connected to deliver their best work
Create learning and development opportunities that offer professional development
Learn about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and prioritise action to create an inclusive organisation
Learn about trauma-informed approaches and prioritise action to create a trauma informed organisation

Recent work includes: implementing an annual Equalities Action Plan, introducing EDI Champion roles, and improving support for staff working with high-risk cases.

4. Impact and influence: influence the wider system to better meet the needs of women who street sex work

Build learning and understanding of a local whole systems approach for street sex-working women to influence change
Build evidence of what the women need from One25 and external systems to influence systems
Sustain and build a strong systemic influence; challenging and removing systemic barriers in collaboration with women and key partners

Recent work includes: contributing to the development of a Health Needs Assessment of Sex Workers in Bristol and building understanding of a whole systems approach to street sex work, including learning from national models and strengthening relationships with local partners.

"As we look ahead, we remain committed to standing alongside women, amplifying their voices and building a future in which every woman is safe, feels loved and has the opportunity to thrive."
- Jenny Riley (CEO) & Rachel Clark (Chair of Trustees)

Our plans for the future

Strengthen and expand support for women: maximise engagement across outreach, the One25 hub and casework, reducing the number of women only accessing outreach support.

Develop pathways to recovery and move-on: introduce a dedicated Move-On Caseworker to support women further along in their recovery.

Embed lived experience in shaping services and strategy: develop and implement a coproduction strategy, empowering women with lived experience to shape services, governance and systems change activity.

Strengthen evidence and impact: develop a stronger approach to impact measurement, including building evidence of women’s journeys, outcomes and the barriers they face in accessing external services.

Expand influence on systems and services: build on the Women’s Rough Sleeping Census and partnership work with police to advocate for gender- and trauma-informed approaches.

Develop our people and inclusive culture: continue delivery of our values, trauma-informed and EDI action plans.

Explore housing provision: begin scoping the potential for developing a dedicated housing offer delivered by
One25, tailored to meet the needs of women who street sex work.