Vision and Mission
The Magdalene Group will improve the quality of people lives through preventing sexual exploitation and coercion. It will provide support to those involved in sex work and offer opportunities for change.
Values
The Magdalene Group has a Christian ethos which welcomes people of all faiths and none.
We believe that God loves every one of us and we recognise the unique value of each individual we encounter.
We will explore faith if a client expresses they have a specific need in this area and there is always someone available who would be happy to talk and pray through these areas.
The Magdalene Group actively works to develop and nurture engagement and build relationships with clients, staff and volunteers.
The Magdalene Group is a value driven charity seeking to make a real difference to the lives of the individuals we support. We demonstrate this through our values:
- Unconditional love.
- Non- judgemental approach.
- Compassion.
- Believing change is possible for all.
- Facilitating and respecting client choice to both empower and release individual potential.
- Demonstrate social impact and be ‘change makers’ to meet the needs of people excluded from society.
- Offering a range of high quality services and actively seeking to work in partnership.
Aims
- To offer non-judgemental support to help women manage their everyday lives.
- To provide on-going individual support to enable women to make informed decisions around exiting sex work.
- To ensure the wider community are better educated and informed about the underlying issues in relation to prostitution.
- To work towards the prevention of exploitative relationships of both adults and young people.
Objectives
- To provide a drop-in service that offers a safe and positive place that seeks to engage and build relationships with the women in order to help them manage their everyday lives.
- To provide advocacy for the women within a range of health, social care, education, criminal justice and wider community.
- To provide a range of prevention and support services to young people at risk of exploitation.
- To reach out and engage with women working in sex work and/or at risk of sexual exploitation and develop innovative ways of making contact in an endlessly adapting environment.
- To develop a befriending scheme that is responsive to the individual needs of the clients.
- By forming and maintaining good partnership working with other voluntary and statutory agencies to ensure holistic packages of care and support.
