Spires Streetlink

“Fantastic example of a project which works with some of the hardest to reach young women in our local community and helps them to get off the streets and into a safe and positive environment.”

Outreach Times

The service is delivered from a specifically adapted outreach vehicle operating across south London and is run by our female staff and volunteers. Our outreach team operates on the following days:
•    Monday – 5am-8am and 9.30pm-1.30am
•    Thursday – 9.30pm-1.30am
•    Friday –  9.30pm-1.30am

For more information or any questions, please contact our Women's Services Co-ordinator Melanie Neale - Melanie@spires.org.uk. If Melanie is unavailable, please call Spires on 020 8696 0943, or email our Head of Client Services Pamela Mhlophe, pamela@spires.org.uk.

About Spires Streetlink

Spires Streetlink provides a pre-emptive and preventative service supporting women who are homeless or engaged in street based sex-working. We recognised that those engaged in street based sex work were often one of the most overlooked, marginalised and vulnerable groups in the community. Each woman we meet has a whole range of complex health, social, psychological and emotional issues to tackle, with the overall objective to help improve their personal & sexual safety, empowering them to make lasting and positive informed choices to ultimately keep them safe and off the streets.

The women we meet on outreach often have many complex problems. These can include; drug & alcohol abuse, homelessness, insecure accommodation, poor sexual, physical or emotional health, low or no income, domestic or sexual violence, social exclusion, limited work skills or offending behaviour. We go and meet the women where they are at and aim to engage with them around their issues, offering signposting and referral to a wide range of partner agencies, including drug and alcohol treatment, specialist counselling and rape crisis centres. We also distribute items for their sexual safety and information packs.

BBC Report

In December 2022, the BBC joined our outreach team to get a better understanding of the work we do and see first-hand the support offered to vulnerable women on the streets. The BBC feature highlighted how more women in London are becoming homeless. The full report can be seen here: The women doing sex work to make ends meet.