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Umbrella Lane has been awarded funding Picture: In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images SEX worker led charity Umbrella Lane is to use new £50,000 funding to set up a street outreach project in Glasgow. Based in Glasgow, the charity works to support people who engage in selling or exchanging sexual services in person and/or online. Now it has earned £50,000 from the The National Lottery Community Fund’s Lived Experience Leaders programme. It comes as many workers are experiencing financial hardship due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Charity founder Dr Anastacia Ryan said: We are delighted to have been successful in our recent application to the Lived Experience Leaders Fund.
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Umbrella Lane will help sex workers facing financial difficulties due to the pandemic (PA)
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A charity says it is being forced to reopen its hardship fund for sex workers during the latest Covid-19 lockdown, as it claimed Scottish Government cash has failed to reach those hardest hit by the pandemic.
Umbrella Lane will relaunch the fund on Saturday to ensure sex workers and their families have “some financial support in these challenging times”.
Fewer people are seeking sex workers’ services because of lockdown and restrictions, she said. As a result, sex workers can’t pick and choose who they see and may be forced to go with dangerous clients.
Niki Adams, a spokesperson for the English Collective of Prostitutes, added: “Life has got worse. Women’s income has fallen off a cliff and they are not entitled to, or struggle to get, government support. People sound desperate. People haven’t eaten. I have got a list of people in dire straits. It’s horrifying what’s happening.”
The economic impact of successive lockdowns and restrictions has been severe. Sex workers have had to make decisions over whether to continue working and possibly risk their health or safety, or lose all income. Hundreds have contacted charities and support organisations asking for emergency food vouchers.