Over the course of the 2024-2025 year, ELSC employed several new models for our flagship life drawing class, providing much needed income and support to some who are particularly vulnerable, and others who live outside of London, thereby expanding our impact beyond our immediate environment. ELSC co-founder & director Stacey Clare began running an offshoot of our life drawing class in Edinburgh, called C U Next Tuesday. This expands ELSC’s reach into Scotland, providing Scottish sex workers with well paid, creative work & spreading the mission of decriminalisation & destigmatisation to Scotland, where implementation of the Nordic Model is an imminent threat. Over the Summer of 2024, Samantha and Maddie launched ELSC’s new and improved website, with the inclusion of ELSC’s talent agency booking page. The process enabled ELSC to centralise our ticket sales processes, allowing us to streamline operations. The agency is in its initial stages, but is already successful in securing well paid work for our members. In November 2024, we produced our first team photoshoot with the intention of using assets for the agency. These photos have gone on to provide ELSC with gorgeous imagery to use across our marketing channels. In August 2024, ELSC returned to the British Museum with Stripping & Strutting: Life Drawing & A Tour of the Nudes. This event was part of the British Museum’s Young People programming, and was free for the public to attend. Over 2 days, we hosted tours of the Museum’s nudes and sculpture collections, situating them within sex worker histories. This was followed by life drawing workshops in a private space. It is important for ELSC to have a presence at major institutions such as the British Museum to keep hidden, marginalised histories alive, bringing our cultural critique into the mainstream and complicating the public’s relationship with historical objects. In September 2025, ELSC community members modelled at the Sinead O’Dwyer show at London Fashion Week, providing a much needed spotlight on sex worker talent within the fashion world. Fashion trends constantly lift inspiration from sex worker aesthetics; Sinead O’Dwyer goes the extra mile by acknowledging her references & hiring sex workers as models. During this time, ELSC were platformed alongside our friends at Sex & Rage through Freeda, a platform with 493k followers on Instagram. Our members educated the public about decriminalisation and improving working conditions through sex worker collectives. The post was viewed nearly 40k times. In November 2024, ELSC won a funding bid from the Disrupt Foundation’s Call Out for Sex Worker-Led Organisations. We were awarded a lump sum to produce three resources: a Stripper Safety Starter Kit Zine, a research document on sex worker organising (named Hustle Culture), and a resource for friends and family of sex workers. This was our first experience of restricted funding. We enjoyed producing these and paid out £4790 to community & CIC members to contribute. However, we learned about the practical differences between working with restricted vs. unrestricted reserves. We came to realise that due to the changing needs of our members and community, unrestricted funds are more suited to ELSC’s operations. These learnings will go on to inform ELSC’s future fundraising strategies. In December 2024, CIC member Maddie Burdon and Director Samantha Sun spoke at Sexifier, an event held at University College London, that aimed to centre sex workers in research. These events situate us in academic spheres & institutions as stakeholders & producers of academic research, and not simply as static subjects. In November and December 2024, we hosted a stall at the Anarchist Bookfair in London, and Le Boutique Bazaar, respectively. By doing this, we were able to engage the public to discuss sex worker advocacy, whilst building connections with the kink community - connections that have historically been complicated by both conflict, infighting and solidarity. We were also able to sell merchandise to feed back into and support ELSC and its activities, as well as fundraising £609.34 to the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP). ELSC attended ECP’s parliamentary launch of Proceed Without Caution:The Impact of “Prostitute’s Cautions” and Convictions on Sex Workers’ Lives in November 2024, in addition to opposing amendments to the Crime and Policing bill that would make the lives of sex workers harder and more dangerous. In November 2024, CIC members and Directors had a run of press interviews about the Oscar-winning film Anora, discussing the rights (and wrongs) of sex worker representation in popular media. Platforms included BBC World Service, The Guardian and Screensphere. In February 2025 ELSC won funding from Spectra Charity to host monthly sex worker exclusive pole jams, hosted by CIC member Luna Minxx. At these jams, strippers and other sex workers were invited into a safe, relaxed pole space, surrounded by other sex workers of all kinds (not just strippers, but full-service workers, dommes, online workers, etc), to practise movement outside of the club. Thanks to Spectra’s funding, we were able to make these sessions free to workers, so that they were not left out of pocket by learning essential skills needed for their work. We also hosted a special Trans Pride pole jam, led by Ella Ava Crux. Trans sex workers are some of the most marginalised in our community and the most excluded, due to both financial barriers and transphobia, from classes in traditional pole studios. In addition to this, we celebrated Trans+ Day of Visibility with a dedicated newsletter featuring an article written by a new CIC member, Titan Reigns. Across April, May and June 2025 we hosted a series of hen-dos, many of which were queer events, thus serving a need for the queer community and enabling them to interact with sex workers in an ethical and exciting way, thereby challenging stigma. In May 2025 we launched the Shoreditch Strip Mile Walking Tours. These are history of tours of East London that educate the public on local hidden histories, destigmatise sex work, and engage older members of our community who are otherwise less active in ELSC. The Tours also challenge the ethos of other popular tours in the area, namely Jack the Ripper tours, by celebrating sex worker lives, rather than exploiting the violence they face historically and presently. We also introduced tiered ticket pricing, offering a lower price to entry for those who may be struggling in this harsh economic climate, and a higher priced, solidarity ticket for those with the means. Finally, In June 2025, members of ELSC organised the first sex worker bloc at London Dyke March, showing solidarity with the significant overlap in the sex worker and LGBTQIA+ communities. In the same month, we celebrated International Whore’s Day with a special edition life drawing class with Sabrina Jade.

We held our AGM in January 2025. We held a voting quorum on the direction of our pole jams, and what our members would like to see for October 2025’s edition of The Other Art Fair, and what they’d like to be involved with. We also held a vote on collaborating with Cybertease, another sex worker-led organisation who were seeking help with using ELSC’s formal structures to underwrite their events. Importantly, we held votes on the relaunch of our Sustainable Support Fund, as well as contributing significant sums of money to two members of our community in crisis. We also asked members for their input on the future direction of ELSC at this important stage of growth. The spirit of DIY needs to be kept alive vs. becoming a corporate, transactional, cold company. We are trying to build a culture of solidarity amongst each other to protect parts of the CIC that are outside of the economic marketplace, trading in different currencies such as skill swapping to build robust alternatives to money. This involved discussions of privilege, DIY, and unpaid labour. We also trialled using Slack over the year to gain clarity on structures for accountability and grievances.

The total amount paid or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £12,446. There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration