WHEN VOLUNTEERS from One25 take to the night-time streets of Bristol in their outreach van, they are meeting women at their most vulnerable. The charity supports those trapped in, or at risk of, street sex work by offering food, clothing, safety supplies and, crucially, trust. Last year alone, they reached 260 women — each facing overlapping challenges of violence, addiction, poor mental health and homelessness. Thanks to a £1,000 donation from Erasure frontman Andy Bell, funded by PEUGEOT via the Attitude Magazine Foundation, that work now has even more backing.
“I saw a documentary on TV about outreach volunteers on the streets of Bristol helping homeless women surviving on the streets, and it literally broke my heart,” Bell tells Attitude. The film highlighted realities often hidden from public view, showing…