Cleveland Sex Work Harm Reduction Information Page
- gaynortrueman
- Dec 11, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: Jan 20
The Cleveland Sex Work Harm Reduction Strategy
The main aims of the Cleveland Sex Work Strategy are to reduce stigma, improve safety and increase awareness regarding the needs of the sex work community across Cleveland. Sex workers are often marginalised within their own communities facing daily discrimination and barriers to accessing local services. Cleveland aims to be an area of excellence ensuring those involved in the sex industry are able to live safer, healthier lives. To read an executive summary of the Cleveland Strategy please access the link below:
This page is to provide access to information regarding services/hubs/groups across the Cleveland/Teesside area in one place. The staff within these services have attended sex work awareness sessions and will provide an informed response to all those who attend from the sex work community and/or the wider public. This page can be used to contact services for help or referrals. If any service would like to be added to this page, please fill in the form on the Contact Us page.
National Services
Link to the North East Sex Work Forum (NESWF) national service directory: Service Directory: North East Sex Work Forum
National Ugly Mugs
NUM is a UK-wide charity working with sex workers to do research, design and deliver safety tools and to provide support services to people in adult industries. Access information regarding National Ugly Mugs services, checking tools and safety information aswell as how to become a member on the following link National Ugly Mugs
Client Eye
Users can make & view reports on any troublesome contacts. Fully Anonymous. No tracking or location systems for greater safety & security. Easy to use, access here ClientEye - The Safety App
Cleveland/Teesside Services
Sexual Health Services
The clinics offer STI screening / advice, support & treatment, contraception including coils, implants, injections, pills, patches and condoms, and cervical smears.
Condoms are available at the reception without an appointment.
If a person has no symptoms, but wants a routine STI test, a postal testing kit can be picked up at reception or accessed through this link www.teessidetogether.co.uk
Times and dates of Walk in clinics:
Monday -
Endurance House, Stockton 1-6
Redcar Community Heart, Redcar 1 - 5
Tuesday -
Park Towers, Hartlepool 1-6
Live Well Centre, Middlesbrough 1 - 5
Wednesday -
Endurance House, Stockton 1-5
Redcar Community Heart, Redcar 1 - 5
Thursday-
Park Towers, Hartlepool 1-5
Live Well Centre, Middlesbrough 1-6
You can get in touch with Teesside Together by calling 01642 924117.
Teesside Together also offer outreach services into various venues across Cleveland, anyone can access this service within the venue or agencies can refer in by completing the form on the Teesside Together website above. Details of venues can be accessed on the website link above. The outreach service can offer all the above services EXCEPT coil fitting and removal.
Hart Gables - Supporting LGBTQ+ communities across Teesside and East Durham https://www.hartgables.org.uk
Presentation about their services:
Hart Gables also over specialist LGBTQ+ inclusion training to all sectors across the UK, access more information below:
Hartlepool Services:
The link below provides details of all community/hubs groups across the Hartlepool area:
The list below details community hubs/groups which offer women only/mixed gender support for specific issues such as substance use, prescribing support, homelessness, mental health support etc:
Middlesbrough
Together - Teesside Mind
Mondays 5:30pm-7:30pm
Holy Trinity Church, The Marketplace, North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, TS3 6LD
Women only mental health peer support group (requires a referral or self-referral through Teesside Mind).
Salvation Army
Tuesdays 10am-12pm
Salvation Army, Southfield Road, Middlesbrough
Mixed Gender breakfast drop-in with access to healthcare staff, housing officers, and other support agencies.
Recovery Solutions - Night Clinic
Tuesdays 5pm-8pm
Live Well West, Ayresome Green Lane, Middlesbrough, TS5 5BA
Women only evening drop-in with a focus on substance use and sex work. Hot food available and access to drug and alcohol treatment, mental health support, A Way Out support.
A Way Out/Changing Lives
Wednesdays 1pm-3pm
A Way Out/ Horizon, Unit 4 Exchange Walk, Wilson Street Middlesbrough
Women only 'cake, cuppa and a chat' drop-in.
Doorways Café - Sex Worker Evening Drop-in
Wednesdays 5pm-8pm
Doorways Café, 9-11 Princes Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 4BD
Women only hot food drop-in for sex workers
Narcotics Anonymous
Saturdays 10:30am-11:45am
Trinity Centre, The Market Place, North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, TS3 6LD
Women only NA meetings
Recovery Solutions Clinics
Live Well East
The Berwick Hills Centre
Crossfell Road
Middlesbrough
Walk in times:
Monday: 9am until 11am and 1pm until 3pm
Tuesday: 9am until 11am and 1pm until 3pm
Wednesday: Non opiate walk in only
Thursday: 9am until 11am and 1pm until 3pm
Friday: 9am until 11am and 1pm until 3pm
Middlesbrough residents only
Live Well West (The Night Clinic)
Ayresome Green Lane
Middlesbrough
TS5 5BA
Live Well South
The Viewley Centre
Hemlington
Middlesbrough
TS8 9JH
Redcar and Cleveland
Tees Valley Women's Centre
Various Times
Tees Valley Women's Centre, Upper Albion Street, South Bank, TS6 6XG
Women only hub running coffee mornings, warm welcomes, monthly women's health clinics, law clinics (family and DV), as well as one off and recurring activities and courses.
The Link - Warm Space
Mon-Fri 11am-2pm
28-29 Esplanade, Redcar, TS10 3AE
Mixed Gender warm space with hot drinks and wellbeing resources.
Stockton
Salvation Army
Monday 9am-12pm
Salvation Army, Palmerston Street, Stockton on Tees TS18 1NU
Mixed Gender breakfast drop-in with access to showers (booked), food parcels and other support agencies.
A Way Out/Durham University/Stockton Borough Council
Monday 10:30 – 12pm
Queens Campus Durham University, TS17 6BH
Female only drop in, light breakfast, hot drinks, mindfulness and shower facilities
Steel Grace
Tuesday 12pm-2pm
Rivers of Life Church Stockton on Tees, TS18 3DT
Female only drop in, Hot food, drinks and access to community Sexual Health Nurse
A Way Out
Thursday 2pm – 4pm
A Way Out Stockton Office
Female only drop in, hot drinks, snacks, craft and mindfulness activities
Criminal Justice Support:
The graphic below details hubs/groups for any women who might find themselves caught up in the criminal justice system. These groups can offer a variety of support
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