Overall GiG Score: 22 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 13
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +13

NATIONAL UGLY MUGS 

Provides greater access to justice and protection for sex workers who are often targeted by dangerous individuals, but are frequently reluctant to report these incidents to the police. We provide a reporting and alerting service along with access to full professional support throughout the UK.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
Established: 16 years

www.uglymugs.org

admin@uglymugs.org

01616299861

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£621£667£-45£1£274£2103.8173
31/03/22£555£565£-10£8£320£2645.6150
31/03/21£949£792£156£11£329£2323.5160
31/03/20£451£407£44n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£403£323£80n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£286£286£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£280£309£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£233£225£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£215£163£51£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£139£130£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£137£156£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£38£41£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£71£73£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£40£33£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£56£70£-14£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 8%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 77%
Reserves/Spending: 3.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
Quick Ratio: 11.2
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 17 employees
  • 3 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£1,020,069
Esmee Fairbairn£248,200
John Ellerman Foundation£148,500
Tudor Trust£142,000
Trust for London£118,000
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£108,500
DCMS£73,114
The London Community Foundation£63,784
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
WCIT Charity - Grant to National Ugly Mugs
£15,000 06/09/2023
Funding for an Application Programming Interface to allow the National Crime Agency and police to safely access its database of harms against sex workers. Also for Artificial Intelligence to code ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to National Ugly Mugs (NUM)
£13,200 13/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to National Ugly Mugs (NUM)
£2,000 13/02/2023
Towards project costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
John Ellerman Foundation - Core support for sex worker-led anti-violence/anti-poverty advocacy and campaigning, and business planning towards ‘mainstreaming’ services to underrepresented women survivors.
£148,500 24/11/2022
Core support for sex worker-led anti-violence/anti-poverty advocacy and campaigning, and business planning towards ‘mainstreaming’ services to underrepresented women survivors.
Trust for London - National Ugly Mugs (NUM)
£8,000 29/09/2022
This is a cost of living uplift for grant reference 360G-trustforlondon-MAIN-S2-05.10.2021-9363
National Lottery Community Fund - Sex Workers Too: Increasing Safety Violence Reporting and Support to Survivors
£254,186 01/08/2022
The funding will help to deliver victim support services for sex workers across England. This will further fund research collaboration with sex workers into the barriers faced in accessing their ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to National Ugly Mugs (NUM)
£20,000 09/03/2022
6
Towards project costs to support development of deeper partnerships between three organisations supporting sex workers.
Trust for London - National Ugly Mugs (NUM)
£110,000 09/02/2022
This funding is for a Transitioning Services Development Coordinator to lead a multi-agency mapping/scoping exercise and needs assessment into transitioning services with sex workers. Results will ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to National Ugly Mugs
£20,000 25/01/2022
over three months as bridging funding to support the delivery of the Umbrella Lane project in Glasgow which provides a safe space and community support for sex workers (now known as NUMbrella Lane)
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to National Ugly Mugs (NUM)
£198,000 20/10/2021
36
Towards unrestricted core costs to support work to end violence against sex workers.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Grant to National Ugly Mugs (NUM)
£108,500 09/07/2021
24
Rights, Recognition and Redress: amplifying the voices BPOC (survival) sex workers about racism, safety and police protection
HM Revenue & Customs - SME Brexit Support Fund
£1,950 07/07/2021
Training Grant provided for Customs training purposes
Tudor Trust - Grant to National Ugly Mugs
£2,000 16/02/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
The London Community Foundation - Grant to National Ugly Mugs
£25,413 22/12/2020
5
The grant will pay for a full time caseworker as well as £8,750 for emergency support in food vouchers and to provide essentials such as hygiene supplies.
Tudor Trust - Grant to National Ugly Mugs
£120,000 17/12/2020
36
over three years towards core costs at a charity supporting sex workers across the UK
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 Emergency Response for UK Sex Workers
£309,550 03/07/2020
6
The organisation will use this funding to continue its work at a greater scale providing information and safety to sex workers. The funding will be used to ensure active sex workers receive warnings ....more
Comic Relief - Emotional and practical support for sex workers
£35,700 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
The London Community Foundation - Grant to UKNSWP/National Ugly Mugs (NUM)
£38,371 19/05/2020
Sex workers who are currently experiencing extreme hardship as a result of Covid-19. NUM will provide the resources necessary to support this marginalised population to isolate, stay safe and stay ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to National Ugly Mugs
£15,000 28/04/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
DCMS - NUM Victim Support Case Worker
£36,557 01/04/2020
Sex workers are at great risk of violence in their work but very few seek help or report incidents to the police. The impact on their mental and physical health is well known by specialist sex ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Sex Worker Online Safety and Education Project
£456,333 21/06/2019
35
This project is for National Ugly Mugs to scale up a safety platform for sex workers and all who are vulnerable to sexual violence across the UK. The organisation's aim is to use digital solutions to ....more
DCMS - NUM Victim Support Case Worker
£36,557 01/04/2019
Sex workers are at great risk of violence in their work but very few seek help or report incidents to the police. The impact on their mental and physical health is well known by specialist sex ....more
DCMS - NUM Victim Support Case Worker
£36,557 10/12/2018
Sex workers are at great risk of violence in their work but very few seek help or report incidents to the police. The impact on their mental and physical health is well known by specialist sex ....more
DCMS - NUM Victim Support Case Worker
£27,418 10/12/2018
Sex workers are at great risk of violence in their work but very few seek help or report incidents to the police. The impact on their mental and physical health is well known by specialist sex ....more
Comic Relief - NUM Victim Support Case Worker
£109,671 06/11/2018
36
Sex workers are at great risk of violence in their work but very few seek help or report incidents to the police. The impact on their mental and physical health is well known by specialist sex ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to National Ugly Mugs (NUM)
£60,000 12/03/2018
48
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
John Ellerman Foundation - Core funding including CEO salary
£90,000 25/01/2018
36
Towards the core costs of their work providing protection and access to justice and protection for sex workers who are at risk of being targeted by violent offenders
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to National Ugly Mugs
£90,000 18/12/2017
36
Towards the salary of the chief executive, to support greater access to justice for sex workers when they are victims of crime.
Trust for London - UK Network of Sex Work Projects / National Ugly Mugs
£80,000 22/02/2017
24
The funding is to support a full-time Police and Criminal Justice Policy Advocate to build knowledge and expertise in existing support services in London, and improve policing in relation to engaging ....more
Comic Relief - Tech for Good- SafetyNets app
£66,700 15/07/2015
12
We'll improve the safety of vulnerable, excluded groups by empowering them to share time-critical, safety alerts with others nearby via smartphones.We’ve developed a prototype app for testing with ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/01/2008, number: 1122461
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
15 returns made; all on time
Main office

National Ugly Mugs
Units 209
The Green Fish Resource Centre
46 -50 Oldham St
Manchester
M4 1LE

Objectives

3. (A) THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF SEX WORKERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM:I. TO PROMOTE PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE PREVENTION OF CRIME BY THE PROVISION OF SAFETYTRAINING, INFORMATION AND RESOURCES;II. TO PRESERVE, PROTECT AND PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH BY PROVIDING INFORMATION AND SUPPORTSERVICES;III. TO PROMOTE THE RIGHTS AND ENTITLEMENTS OF SEX WORKERS AS EQUAL CITIZENS BY PROVIDINGADVOCACY, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT SERVICES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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