On this page, you will find a list of NUM’s reports and publications. These include our impact reports, trustees’ annual reports, research publications and zines.

Our Impact Reports and Trustee Annual Reports are designed to provide a summary of NUM’s work. If you would like to find out about activities, please download, read and share!

Trustees’ Annual Report

• NUM Trustees’ Annual Report FYE March 2025
• NUM Trustees’ Annual Report FYE March 2024
• NUM Trustees’ Annual Report FYE March 2023
• NUM Trustees’ Annual Report FYE March 2022
• NUM Trustees’ Annual Report FYE March 2021
• NUM Trustees’ Annual Report FYE March 2020

Impact Reports and Strategic Vision:

• Strategic Vision 2023-27
• 2019/2020
• 2016/2017
• 2014/2015

Racial Justice Policy Briefs:

• Policing and racialised sex workers in the UK
• Healthcare and racialised sex workers in the UK
• Higher education and racialised sex workers in the UK
• Support services and racialised sex workers in the UK
• Housing and racialised sex workers in the UK

Additional Reports:

• ‘In an ideal world, it would be fully decriminalised’: Stigma, discrimination, and sex work laws in Scotland, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the Republic of Ireland, October 2024
• No Viable Option – Leaving the Game Summary Report, August 2024
• ‘Fighting for Fair Treatment’ – research commissioned by UCLH Find and Treat Service, Autum 2023
• Scotland Sex Workers Needs Assessment, Summer 2022
• NLCF Digital Build: Sex Work and Safety Online
• ‘Payment Rejected: Financial Discrimination of Sex Workers, December 2021
• Second Covid-19 Impact Report, June 2021
• ‘Sex Workers Too’ – a report to the Home Office Violence Against Women and Girls  Consultation, February 2021
• Covid-19 Impact Report, November 2020

To read more about NUM’s research and publications, have a look at our research page for our current and past projects!

Journal Articles and Publications:

• NUM’s submission to the NPCC Policing Guidance Consultation, July 2024
• Survival Sex Work, May 2024
• The Effect of Systemic Racism and Homophobia on Police Enforcement and Sexual and Emotional Violence among Sex Workers in East London: Findings from a Cohort Study, July 2022
• Why Report? Sex Workers who Use NUM Opt out of Sharing Victimisation with Police.’ Springer. Sept 2021
• TransActions: A Project with Trans People Who Sell Sex, 2017
• Policing Sex Work in Britain: A Patchwork Approach, 2017
• Male Escorting, Safety and National Ugly Mugs: Queering policy and practice on the reporting of crimes against sex workers, 2015

Under The Red Umbrella, a sex worker advocacy zine

Click here for all published zines. Individual Editions:

• • Issue 7, August 2025
  • Issue 6, March 2025
  • Issue 5, November 2024
  • Issue 4, June 2024
  • Issue 3, February 2024
  • Issue 2, November 2023
  • Issue 1, August 2023

Parliamentary Briefings:

• Adult Services Websites, February 2026
• Crime and Policing Brief, November 2025
• MSP Briefing on Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill, January 2026

Other NUM Publications:

• Strategic Vision, 2023-2027