Mermaids annual accounts

So the most interesting thing is the trustees signed in August 2019, and the independent examiner in October 2019. These are indeed accounts to March 2019. But I would have thought there would be a mention of the email breach in the trustee report.
That email breach was in the press just loads before then. For instance www.hayesconnor.co.uk/have-you-been-affected-by-the-mermaids-data-breach/ was posted on 18th June. These solicitors refer to the Sunday Times article and Mermaid’s press release and will help those affected make a data breach compensation claim. The charity was “deeply sorry” for this “historical data breach”. It reported the breach to the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Charity Commission. An independent investigation into the Mermaids data breach will now take place.

But this isn’t mentioned. The Sunday Times said more than Mermaids, saying, the emails contained “intimate details of the vulnerable youngsters it seeks to help”. It “reports that these emails could be found by entering the charity’s name and its number into a search engine).”

The next paragraph has “we are aware that Mermaids is being targeted by transphobes who wish to infiltrate our staffing ranks with malicious intent. ”

Yes, Double they aren’t new accounts. I don’t know when they sent them to the Charities Commission. They were finished in October 2019.

Page 8 in the PDF, numbered as 7, Trustees’ annual report, has gems like “increasingly hostile transphobic social and media onslaught”… “One disturbing example was the We Are Still Here transgender conference in September 2018, at which our CEO spoke alongside one of our young teens. Despite working with the organisers to maximise security for the event, an individual with transphobic motivations still manager to infiltrate the conference and share their negative views of it on social media.” The conference, that the CEO tweeted from!!!

Of interest:
The trustees
When the accounts were signed, 8 August 2019, there were only two trustees: Anna Chivers and Stephen Elllis. There had been more in the period of the accounts (1/4/18-31/3/19), Neil Mackin (until November 2018, was chair), Caroline Roberts and Janet Adams (both until December 2018). They’ve resigned. There is narrative about looking for new trustees.

Looking in January 2020 on the.charity commission site this is who we have, one from above and three new ones:
Stephen Timothy Ellis “Lloyds Banking Group” When I looked at the Charities Commission website, they had no other trusteeships on record.
Alex Feis-Bryce; previous work includes “my charity, National Ugly Mugs (NUM), which provides direct support to thousands of sex workers throughout the UK.” No other trusteeships on record.
Paul Devlin “Paul brings a wide range of experience from a career in the charity sector and as a Non-Executive Director and Trust Chair in the NHS”. No other trusteeships on record.
Dr [of Professional Studies (Public Works) in 2018] Belinda Bell “Programme Director at Cambridge Social Ventures, NeD at Foundation East and Noise Solution, Trustee at Mermaids UK” No other trusteeships on record.

The accounts are filed with the charities commission who also have info about the trustees etc. Here beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regid=1160575&subid=0