Grantee-Partners Map
In the 10 years since our launch in 2012, Red Umbrella Fund has given 279 grants to 180 organisations in 68 countries. Every year we share our list of grants including the names of the grantee-partner organisations that request to be published on our website. Organisations that wish to stay anonymous do not have their name or country publicly available. Please contact us if you would like to contact any of our former-grantees or discuss their work.
In 2022 Red Umbrella Fund’s PAC awarded €1,300,000 – our first time giving more than a million in a single year – bringing total grants to €7,886,500!
| Organisation Name | Country | Region | Years |
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Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD)
Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD)Germany National English Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD) is a group that unites sex workers from all backgrounds and regions of Germany. The group engages in the public debate around fair and dignified working conditions in sex work. Operating as a professional union, BesD not only amplifies the voices of sex workers in media and with policymakers, but also fights for improved access to information, training and greater solidarity among the sex worker community. Learn more
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Germany | Europe | 2016 |
Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD)
Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD)Germany Local, National English This group unites sex workers from all backgrounds and regions of Germany to engage in the public debate around fair and dignified working conditions in the sex industry. Operating as a professional union, BesD amplifies the voices of sex workers in media, public debates and conversations with policymakers. The group provides information to sex workers and works to build greater solidarity among sex worker communities. In response to a recent law on mandatory registration for sex workers, the group is supporting migrant sex workers in Germany who are most affected by the change. Learn more
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Germany | Europe | 2018 |
Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD)
Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD)Germany National English This group unites sex workers from all backgrounds and regions of Germany to organise and engage in the public debate around fair and dignified working conditions in sex work. Operating as a professional union, BesD not only amplifies the voices of sex workers in media, public debates and conversations with policymakers, but also fights for improved access to information, training and greater solidarity among the sex worker community. Learn more
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Germany | Europe | 2014 |
European Sex Workers Rights Alliance (ESWA, former ICRSE)
European Sex Workers Rights Alliance (ESWA, former ICRSE)Regional Network - Netherlands based international English The European Sex Workers Rights Alliance (ESWA)’s membership comprises more than 100 organisations spread across the WHO Europe region. With their actions and approach inspired by their membership, ESWA works to build a strong, vibrant and sustainable network that mobilises national, regional and international advocacy activity that moves us towards long-term, systemic change. Learn more
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Regional Network - Netherlands based | Europe | 2022 |
Organización de Trabajadoras Sexuales (OTRAS)
Organización de Trabajadoras Sexuales (OTRAS)Spain National Spanish As a trade union, OTRAS works in Spain to defend the economic and labour rights of sex workers. Created in 2018, the organisation will use its grant to strengthen its communication and visibility as well as organising advocacy activities. Learn more
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Spain | Europe | 2021 |
PROUD
PROUDNetherlands Local, National English This recently created union works with sex workers from different sectors of the sex industry in the Netherlands to oppose criminalisation, stigma and discrimination against sex workers and improve their working conditions. PROUD builds capacity and leadership of sex workers of all genders and provides direct support and referrals, documents cases of human rights violations, reaches out to media, and advocates for the rights of sex workers in national and local legislation and policies. Learn more
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Netherlands | Europe | 2015 |
Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM)
Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM)United Kingdom National English This workers’ cooperative aims to strengthen the sex workers’ rights movement through organising community workshops and festivals, networking and collaboration. SWARM advocates for full decriminalisation of sex work through lobbying parliamentarians, amplifying sex workers’ voices in public debates, and speaking out in media. The cooperative actively campaigns against the recent rise in arrests, unlimited detention, and deportation of migrant sex workers in the UK who are being specifically targeted since the Brexit vote. Learn more
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United Kingdom | Europe | 2017 |
Sex Workers Intersectional Peer Education (SWIPE)
Sex Workers Intersectional Peer Education (SWIPE)Italy national English SWIPE was born in October 2020 to fill the need for an association that could work on a national level, for all sex workers and that could act as a public face at a country level. SWIPE (Sex worker Intersectional Peer Education) is a sex workers and allies association, created to support Italian sex workers’ rights, promote an inclusive culture and fight stigma, whorephobia and whorearchy. With this first grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation aims to organise workshops, a podcast, manage its website and social media platforms and continue strengthening its structures. Learn more
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Italy | Europe | 2022 |