As a sub-project of SWOU, we've launched Confide, a sex worker community support helpline. Confide is open 6pm - 9pm on Wednesdays, and is cheaper to call than a regular landline. The number is 0330 111 0514. You can read more at the website, http://confideinfo.com/

Confide offers a confidential, listening space for people who are, or have been in the sex industry. We are entirely run and staffed by current or former sex workers. Whatever you want to talk about, whether that?s the response you got when you told a partner what you do, a recent (or long-ago) incident of sexual violence ? regardless of if it occurred at work or not ? or something someone said that made you feel odd or uncomfortable and you weren?t sure why, we?re here to listen to you and give you a safe space to talk. http://confideinfo.com/what-can-we-offer-you/

We set this up because many services aimed that sex workers could access are kinda patronising, and state things like they don't "believe" that escorting - or sex work, or whatever you want to call it - can ever be a job/work. At Confide, we *believe* what a caller tells us about their own life; we're not gonna tell you you're wrong about *however* you feel about escorting, or sex work, or *whatever*. And we think there's something powerful about sex workers helping out other sex workers - we don't need charity! http://confideinfo.com/why-have-we-set-this-up/

You can email us for a chat or more info at confide (at) SWOU.org, as well.