PROJECT
Helter Skelter Project
PURPOSE
To help young people exit or avoid sexually exploitative relationships
FUNDING
Around £80,000 per year for two child sexual exploitation workers serving Cambridgeshire, mainly funded by Comic Relief, the Henry Smith Charity and Tudor Trust
BACKGROUND
In 2007, Helen Rawden, now chief executive of Cambridgeshire charity Link to Change, was running the needle exchange of a charity called Dial Drug Link where she was well acquainted with the life stories of female clients using sex work to support their habit. She was convinced the lives of these women could have turned out very differently had they been supported to avoid or escape sexual exploitation as teenagers.
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