Safety First Wales, The Iceland Building, 27-29 High Street, Swansea (2026)

05/11/2025

Private lives, public fictions: Panel event

Full film of panel event, featuring speakers from:
Safety First Wales
Street Workers Collective Ireland (transcript to follow)
Scotland for Decrim
English Collective of Prostitutes
US PROStitutes
Amnesty Wales
Support Not Separation

Thanks to everyone who contributed and attended our successful exhibit, zine launch and panel event last week!

Cover photo by .fadhlaoui

16/10/2025

Less than two weeks until Private Lives, Public Fictions!!

Join us at the Volcano Theatre in Swansea for our exhibition and zine launch. Featuring discussions with SFW, the English Collective of Prostitutes, Street Workers Collective Ireland, Scotland for Decrim, the US PROStitutes collective, and Amnesty International UK!

What do you dream of for the future?

01/09/2025

Join us on 28th October for our interactive exhibit and zine launch!

Created in collaboration with s*x workers and s*x working artists, the exhibition captures and communicates the experience of s*x workers, confronting misinformation and well-worn stereotypes. It offers reflections on daily life, as well as aspirations and imaginations for the future.

The panel event includes speakers from Amnesty International, the English Collective of Prostitutes, US PROStitutes Collective, Scotland4Decrim and Street Workers Collective Ireland

Panel: Tuesday 28th October, 14:00 - 15:30
Open drop in: 28th - 31st October 2025
Location: Volcano Theatre, Swansea

03/07/2025

Our response to Tonia Antoniazzi MP’s parliamentary statement given on 18th June.

Our MPs should not be advocating for policies that have been demonstrated to increase violence against our communities.

Our full statement can be read above.

18/06/2025

Oppose clauses NC2 & NC3 of the Crime and Policing Bill 2025 - being debated in Parliament today!

Proposed amendments to the crime and policing bill will increase the criminalisation of s*x work. Among the proposed changes is an amendment to repeal the offence of “loitering or soliciting for the purposes of prostitution”.
This has long been called for by s*x workers.
But it appears to be a concession that masks a series of further amendments that would function to collectively harm s*x workers!

Clause NC2 targets so-called third parties. Its broad definition means anyone who associates with a s*x worker could be prosecuted for commercial s*xual exploitation. This clause would also criminalise advertising sites which s*x workers depend on to work independently and in greater safety.
This would mean that s*x workers support systems for working safely would be eradicated as they are unable to advertise online and carry out screening of clients.

Clause NC3 criminalises clients by making it illegal to pay for or provide any benefit in exchange for s*xual services. Its backers argue that this would reduce demand. But there is evidence from countries that have implemented this model – often called the “Nordic model” – that suggests otherwise.

Continued efforts to further criminalise s*x workers will cause considerable harm. S*xual exploitation is already a crime. Further criminalising and reframing all s*x work as exploitation does nothing to tackle poverty, inadequate welfare provision, or restrictive immigration policies.

If UK politicians are serious about promoting the rights and wellbeing of s*x workers, they should address poverty, social inequality and restrictive immigration laws.

S*x workers need rights and policies that reflect their lives to reduce their proximity to harm, not further criminalisation.

02/06/2025

SFW DAY OF ACTION - SUNDAY 8 JUNE 2025⁣
Join us in Wales for a DAY OF ACTION AND RESISTANCE to mark the 50th anniversary of International S*x Workers’ Day/International Wh**es Day!

WHEN: Sunday 8 June 2025, 1pm
WHERE: Cardiff⁣

International S*x Workers’ Day commemorates the day in 1975 when 150+ s*x workers occupied the Church of St. Nizier in Lyon, France. Fifty years later, s*x workers remain at the forefront of struggles against violence and criminalisation and for labour rights.

Right now, two prominent Welsh MPs, are pushing to bring in the “Nordic Model” - a set of laws that claim to ‘protect’ s*x workers but in practice increase criminalisation and police powers. Amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill are now at report stage. Rather than focusing on poverty in Wales’, the highest of all UK nations, these policies target and criminalise s*x workers, especially mothers who are working to support their children.

Enough is enough!

To demand an end to this injustice, we will be coming together as s*x workers and allies to build solidarity in Wales! The day will include:
❤️‍🔥 Banner making workshop
🖋️ Writing letters to MPs and Members of the Senedd
💭 Reflection space
🥖 French buffet provided
✨ Special surprise!

This event is free for s*x workers. Allies are invited to donate if they can to support the ongoing work led by s*x workers to end criminalisation and stigma and demand rights as workers.

Please RSVP via DM or email to [email protected] to receive the full location details.

This event is part of a series of actions and events from 1 - 11 June. For a calendar of UK actions see

30/03/2025

This Mother’s Day, we see and stand with s*x working mothers. Stop children being taken from their s*x working mums. Poverty is not neglect. Mothers need money not criminalisation.

Criminalisation makes s*x work more dangerous. It is illegal to work on the street and together from premises. These laws must be abolished. Decriminalisation is the only way to improve the safety, health and wellbeing of s*x workers.

31% of children in Wales are living below the poverty line. By 2026 child poverty will be at its highest in over two decades!
Children are poor because their mothers are poor. Yet s*x-working mums are constantly labelled as bad mothers, seen to be a risk to themselves and their children. Instead of giving money to mums, this money is spent on social services to remove children and keep them in care - separating families rather than keeping them together. Why isn’t this money directed to mothers, so they can stay with their children in the first place?

Most s*x workers are mums, working to put food on the table for their children.

This Mother’s Day send your love and support to mothers s*x working to support their families. Mothers need money, not criminalisation, to leave s*x work if they choose to.

Photographer: .so

*xworkersrights

08/03/2025

On International Women’s Day, we demand the decriminalisation of s*x work to prioritise the safety, health, and wellbeing of all s*x workers.

S*x work exists within a complex structure of labour and oppression. We abhor the genocide in Palestine and stand with Palestinian women resisting occupation, violence, and displacement.

In Wales, s*x workers, many of whom are trans women, migrant women, and women of colour, face high levels of poverty and are targeted by cruel policies that sanction and criminalise them. We demand change. We stand in solidarity internationally with s*x workers fighting criminalisation and police abuse.

Any feminism that excludes s*x workers is not feminism at all. If you are fighting for gender justice, you must fight for the decriminalisation of s*x work.
Wales must do better.

Join Safety First Wales in the fight for decriminalisation.

Photographer: .so

*xwork *xworkersrights

03/03/2025

Throughout history s*x workers have been obsessed over, vilified, fetishised, criminalised, dehumanised, classified and conceptualised on. All we want is the right to work safely, to support our families and have autonomy over our bodies and how we make money.

Criminalisation and the focus on policing as a way to reduce s*x work has distorted priorities so that money goes to law enforcement rather than the provision of benefits, housing and other resources for women to enable and empower women to leave and refuse prostitution, undermining s*x workers’ wellbeing and rights.

Today it is International S*x Worker Rights day. We urge you to campaign with us in Wales and wider for the full decriminalisation of s*x work.
*xworkersrights

17/12/2024

On International Day to End Violence Against S*x Workers we recognise that violence faced by s*x workers is poverty, the cruel removal of children from their mums, and the violent conditions that the state imposes on s*x workers.

Under prostitution laws, s*x workers in Wales live under constant threat of arrest, police raids, prosecution and imprisonment for working on the street or working with others, with these laws disproportionately targeting migrant, trans and women of colour.

To end violence against s*x workers we demand the decriminalisation of s*x work and for resources to be targeted at s*x workers to enable women to leave prostitution if and when they chose to.

Photo credit:

*xworkersrights

09/12/2024

On 6th November 2024, Safety First Wales officially launched at the Senedd, sponsored by Mabon ap Gwynfor, marking a significant milestone in advocating for the rights and safety of s*x workers.

Speakers included representatives from the Street Workers Collective Ireland, Women Against R**e, Global Women Against Deportations, Amnesty International UK, the English Collective of Prostitutes and Leanne Wood.

The event centered on the urgent need to decriminalise s*x work and direct resources to support s*x workers. Discussions emphasised how we cannot hope to promote the safety and wellbeing of s*x workers without recognising and addressing the broader social issues that underpin s*x work, including poverty, entrenched inequalities, the housing crisis and inadequate welfare and health care provisions.

Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to this historic event. We are grateful for your support and solidarity as we continue to fight for the safety, rights, and wellbeing of s*x workers.

Photo credit:

15/11/2024

It’s been one week since the official launch of Safety First Wales! This event underscored why Wales needs the full decriminalisation of s*x work and the targeting of resources to s*x workers to enable women to leave prostitution if they chose to.

Further updates to come!

See our briefing paper and petition in bio
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