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Street Talk's staff includes a director, operations manager, and various therapists who provide psychotherapy and art therapy services.
Director, clinical supervisor, psychotherapist Pippa Hockton Operations, fundraising and reporting, communications & compliance Oliver Hockton Art Therapists Catriona Alderton Vera Howard Psychotherapists Alison Caldow Amanda Chapman Karl Svars Laura Turner (training placement) Louise Turner (training placement) Nikki Adams (training placement) Poppy Martin (training placement) Rose Campbell Sandi Baiju Shirley Sutton
Operational · Procedural statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 12
Street Talk's board includes consultants such as Simon Dodds (lawyer) and Dr Jan Birtle (psychiatrist), who advise on strategy, development, clinical model, and sharing learning.
Consultants Simon Dodds (lawyer) Advises on strategy and development. Dr Jan Birtle (psychiatrist) Advises on the clinical model and sharing the learning.
Governance · Stakeholder position · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 11
Street Talk's financial review shows that reserves held at the end of the reporting period were in line with policy.
Reserves held at the end of the reporting period were in line with the policy.
Financial · Funding statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 9
Street Talk provided therapy services for Blessing, who was eventually awarded asylum and is now pursuing college courses.
She has now started college courses, hoping to qualify for care work. She has now ended the work with Street Talk but knows that if she needs help in the future she could come back to us.
Service · Case study · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 9
Street Talk has taken part in joint campaigning with the Human Trafficking Foundation (HTF) and is now providing clinical supervision to HTF's LEAP group.
Street Talk has taken part in joint campaigning with HTF in previous years but we are working more closely with HTF providing clinical supervision to the LEAP group and training in trauma to their team.
Commissioning · Procedural statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 13
Street Talk works in partnership with several organizations to provide support and services for vulnerable women.
Aside from external and independent referrals, Street Talk also works in partnership with the following organisations. Chrysalis Project (St. Mungo’s Broadway) Two hostels exclusively for women involved in street prostitution in the London Borough of Lambeth.
Commissioning · Procedural statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 12
Street Talk's board includes trustees and consultants with diverse backgrounds, including former service users and professionals from various fields.
Trustees Aoife Ritchie Works in NHS mental health services and completed her psychotherapy training placement with Street Talk. Charlotte Littlewood Works in NHS mental health services and completed her psychotherapy training placement with Street Talk. Colleen Rhodes Former service user. Fatima Ba Former service user. Keran Burris Former service user.
Governance · Stakeholder position · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 11
Street Talk's reserves policy mandates holding reserves equal to at least six months of operating costs.
Street Talk’s policy is that reserves should be held equal to at least six months operating costs in order to guarantee safe cessation of therapeutic services in the event that the charity were to close.
Governance · Policy statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 9
Street Talk assisted Blessing, a woman who fled Nigeria due to fear of her life and became an illegal immigrant in London, by providing legal support and therapy.
She had no understanding of therapy and was reluctant to talk, only coming because another woman persuaded her. She presented with suicidal feelings, terrified of being repatriated, certain that she would be killed were she to be sent back even after so many years.
Service · Case study · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 8
Street Talk provided training and consultation to five organizations interested in adopting or incorporating practices developed by Street Talk into their own services for vulnerable people.
Training and consultation was provided to 5 organisations interested in adopting or incorporating practices developed by Street Talk into their own services for vulnerable people.
Commissioning · Procedural statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 7
Street Talk helped 12 women keep their children out of state care, grant access to children in state care or rebuild relationships with estranged family.
12 women were successful in keeping children out of state care, were granted access to children in state care, or rebuilt relationships with estranged family.
Service · Observational claim · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 7
Street Talk emphasizes quality over quantity in its service delivery.
Street Talk’s model emphasises quality, long-term work over raw quantity of beneficiaries and this informs a strategy of sustainable growth
Strategic · Policy statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 5
Street Talk promotes the Therapy of Presence model to other organizations.
We work hard to share our learning, specifically about how to work therapeutically with people who are usually excluded from therapy and to promote the Therapy of Presence model
Service · Policy statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 4
Street Talk campaigns as part of Together With Refugees and Human Trafficking Foundation.
Street Talk continued campaigning as part of Together With Refugees, an alliance of organisations in the sector, advocating the rights of refugees. Street Talk continued its partnership with the Human Trafficking Foundation for joint campaigning
Commissioning · Policy statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 4
Street Talk provides practical support including essential items for women.
Practical support provision of essential items for women including food or supermarket vouchers, medication, nappies and other supplies for babies, clothing, telephones, laptops, travel cards
Service · Procedural statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 3
Street Talk refers women who have made sufficient progress to specialist services.
The vast majority of Street Talk’s women are excluded from these services at the time of their first engagement with Street Talk
Service · Procedural statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 3
Street Talk offers mentoring to support women in appointments and daily activities.
One-to-one mentoring, supporting women by accompanying them to appointments, which many find very hard, accompanying them to go out from where they are living and do simple things like go to a café or for a walk in a park to improve their well being and to give them some social contact
Service · Procedural statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 3
Street Talk provides legal support for housing, benefits, crime, and family matters.
The beneficiaries continue to receive legal support from Martin Stewart, a solicitor who works pro bono up to one day each week, on housing, benefits, crime and family matters
Service · Procedural statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 3
Street Talk supports women in family proceedings by providing reports and assessments.
We provide reports for the court and psychological assessments as well as accompanying women to social services case conferences as well as court
Service · Procedural statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 3
Street Talk provides reports and attends court proceedings for women in immigration cases.
We provide reports to the court evidencing that mental health symptoms are consistent with PTSD caused by extreme fear and that the woman has told a consistent story over the years which we have worked with her. When requested by the women or by their legal team we attend court with the woman and have been called as a witness
Service · Procedural statement · From Street Talk — annual report and accounts, year ending 31 March 2025, page 2