Stonewall Annual Accounts

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/01/06/stonewall-gets-12m-taxpayer-cash-foreign-office-accused-propping/

Presumably Stonewall will be able to provide the receipts detailing their expenditure for their 3/4 million ££ work done in Afghanistan? This is precisely what I would expect a charity to be involved in so hopefully the receipts will forthcoming shortly.

Thank you @OldCrone. I've seen the gov.uk press release they refer to. It doesn't tell you much. It doesn't answer 1 or 2 in that FOI.

I think this needs questions from MPs.

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/charity_stonewall_involvement_in#incoming-1945843

They provide a link to this information:
www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-government-helps-lgbt-afghans-start-new-life-in-britain

All the other information they hold is witheld under various exemptions.

Any investigation of the FO will discover the same issues that were revealed at the DfE when their lavish funding of Stonewall was revealed and uncritical promotion of them (and Mermaids etc) to children in schools became evident. All in clear defiance of the Nolan principles and the actual law about political impartiality in schools.
They'll find some very self interested individuals (probably in receipt of lavish wining and dining from Stonewall as with the DfE) pushing their personal beliefs along with unthinking "allies" seeking to educate "foreigners" without using any critical thinking about what this should look like.

3/4 of a million £££ to Stonewall's coffers is massive.

I read that they make 7 million pa from the champion scheme, fundraising and selling rainbow lanyards etc.

So, why do they need so much funding?

And, what on earth do they do with all the money?

Because, if they wanted to help trans people they could have build refuges, services, trained health care professionals, funded research and provided networks of actual experts who have actual skills.

Instead of which they just seem to have done a lot of whining about why I'm a terrible person for wanting to keep the rights earned by my grandmothers.

How many staff do they have? And what do they earn?

IT's a racket. An absolute racket.

I think the FCO has funded Stonewall in the past in order that SW can do work overseas. I believe the funds are restricted. However, wasn't Liz Truss furious that the FCO had gone ahead despite her views. I am more interested in next years accounts. They certainly aren't flush. I also think there is a bit of a re-think about the west shipping their views out across the globe and expecting other cultures to just role over. Change is in the air and next years accounts may be more interesting. I don't want SW to fold, I just want them to be a good, honest champion of gay rights and I would back, wholeheartedly a third space campaign.

That Foreign Office grant needs an investigative journalist on the case. I mean how can that be justified when people cant work out how to pay their gas bills in the coming months. What's going on? What's the real story? They are propping up a failing charity. Who signed off that eye watering amount of money.

Wow hope someone is preparing a FOI to the foreign office on that increase

All the grants need an explanation but this one is eye-popping:

Foreign Office grant up from £145k to £765k.

What exactly did they do for/in Afghanistan? We've really no idea but this is one of the things they've tweeted about.

There would be good reasons for not revealing detail that would lead to evacuees being identified. Against that, we know they don't run frontline services, so what did they do to help? How could they have assisted?

Presumably the Foreign office's shameful increase is one of the reasons why Stonewall are currently removing women's rights to safety in India?

vaishnavisundar.com/ezine/indian-ezine-gender-ideology/

I thought they charge for their training and membership programmes? Why do they need so much funding? Do they have an enormous work force? It's usually next to impossible to fundraise for things like salaries. (For other charities anyway).

Foreign Office grant up from £145k to £765k

Why? What is this for? Serious question need to be asked about this.

And these:

£50k grant from Government Equalities office.

£742k claimed from Government covid funding.

Scottish Government grant £150k, Welsh Government grant £236k.