Trouble at Mermaids?

Talkinpeace · 12/07/2026 12:41

Mermaids has always historically had about 12 trustees
(page 4 of accounts here https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5054976/accounts-and-annual-returns?_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_organisationNumber=5054976)
so being down to 6 is interesting.

I agree with @Chersfrozenface that its a failing of the Charity Commission website that they do not track former trustees.

I have met their web team at several conferences and they confirmed that they hold the data but not publish it.
Until charities are charged for annual returns the CC does not have the funds to make the change

Search the register of charities - prd-ds-register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk

Charity details for MERMAIDS - Charity 1160575

https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5054976/accounts-and-annual-returns?_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_organisationNumber=5054976%29

TrainedByTheBiddyMafia · 12/07/2026 10:06

The charity commission report findings should have make them ineligible for some grants. There’s usually quite specific criteria.

The National Lottery funding for example claim to require strict organisational and financial management criteria.

GreenEyedFeminist · 12/07/2026 08:50

DearestGentleReader90 · 08/07/2026 16:05

Hi everyone,

I have been a long term campaigner against Trans organisations and in particular Mermaids, after my 16 daughter became involved in their service and attended a radical event without my consent or knowledge. They 'empowered' her to basically not listen to any of my advice and do whatever she wants.
A friend of mine has reason to believe that there is trouble brewing and a lot of the staff and trustees/patrons are stepping down!!! Has anyone else heard anything similar?

I also was informed that the current CEO Johanna Hardy was previously employed at Gingerbread and the president was no other than the wonderful JK Rowling. I am surprised the alphabet crew havent made more of a fuss about that!!! 😮😮😮😮

DGR

‘Trouble at Mermaids’? We can but hope! This organisation that has done so much to damage children (and their relationships with parents) is hopefully suffering its demise

lcakethereforeIam · 11/07/2026 10:11

John and Hank Green are Directors (not of Mermaids). Probably explains the stupid cool name.

SinnerBoy · 11/07/2026 10:06

Thanks.

AnonyMumAuDHD · 11/07/2026 09:48

SinnerBoy · 11/07/2026 09:45

What on Earth is Foundation to Decrease World Suck?

Not willing to add a link, bit this is their opening page. I mean… what are these guys smokin’??

SinnerBoy · 11/07/2026 09:45

What on Earth is Foundation to Decrease World Suck?

Bertiebiscuit · 11/07/2026 09:12

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 10/07/2026 12:11

Funding I can find

1
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
£283,000
2
The National Lottery Community Fund
£17,500
3
Henry Smith Foundation
£1,510

And also these named in their accounts for thanks

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
LGBT Consortium
MAC UK & Ireland VIVA GLAM
Foundation to Decrease World Suck

Surely they could all get some letters?

Reminds me why i never buy lottery tickets or anything from those horrible MAC shops

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 10/07/2026 14:08

Aposterhasnoname · 10/07/2026 12:50

How embarrassing you're going to do this at least the damn post

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I did.

AnonyMumAuDHD · 10/07/2026 12:51

IonianNerveGrip · 10/07/2026 12:40

Fucking hell. What a dreadful experience.

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Thank you - it was truly awful. SS interview everyone, they only stopped short of contacting my DH’s employers because I was the focus of the complaint. It could have ruined his career. But teachers, doctors, HV, CAMHS staff, even a supervisors at my kids clubs [poss because I was a guide leader/district commissioner and scout leader at the time], were interviewed about our family and me - my son (age 10 around that time) was interviewed twice, both alone in his room at home and at school. It was awful. We did get a 27 page report at the end however at the end that stated that we were engaged, loving and supportive parents who were taking reasoned and reasonable steps to safeguard a vulnerable, autistic child. I had been so scared that my DC would be removed and DH was going to a crap time at work concurrently so he could have done without it.

Didn’t stop us being reported again 2 years later by persons unknown, but that time they simply checked in on my son, got an update on DD from the GP and confirmed that their position had not changed since the earlier family review. Everyone says that if SS call to cooperate as it’ll be fine - and so you do, and it was in the end, but it is the most awfully exposing and invasive experience.

Aposterhasnoname · 10/07/2026 12:50

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 08/07/2026 16:22

According to co-pilot in answer to if JKR has ever been president of Mermaids

Short answer: No. There is no evidence that J.K. Rowling has ever been president, patron, trustee, ambassador, or in any leadership role at the UK charity Mermaids. All available reporting shows the opposite: she has criticised Mermaids publicly and repeatedly.
What the evidence shows:

Rowling has never been associated with Mermaids in any official capacity.
She has instead publicly condemned the charity, especially after revelations about a trustee’s past involvement with a conference linked to paedophilia advocacy.
She has criticised celebrities (including Emma Watson) for supporting Mermaids.

Of course co-pilot could be wrong, but I can't be arsed to look further, I suspect you're just trying to shit stir.

How embarrassing you're going to do this at least the damn post

AnonyMumAuDHD · 10/07/2026 12:41

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 10/07/2026 12:11

Funding I can find

1
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
£283,000
2
The National Lottery Community Fund
£17,500
3
Henry Smith Foundation
£1,510

And also these named in their accounts for thanks

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
LGBT Consortium
MAC UK & Ireland VIVA GLAM
Foundation to Decrease World Suck

Surely they could all get some letters?

This is why I don’t buy national lottery tickets any more - as I have no say where my money is going!

IonianNerveGrip · 10/07/2026 12:40

AnonyMumAuDHD · 09/07/2026 12:15

I cannot wait to see this organisation fold - it was my writing to the Dept HT at my daughter’s school [asking the school not to affirm or to reference/rely upon any material from Mermaids] that lead to a surprise visit from social services and a 3-4m full and invasive investigation. It was horrendous. Susie Green was still there and I pointed out that their charity had a non-neutral agenda and that I wished to allow my child to explore and mature before ‘affirming’.

I think they may have assisted in supplying breast binders, too, though I’ve no evidence of their being the direct source. As a result of binding, DD spent her 13th birthday in hospital on IV fluids before having a breast cyst aspirated [by two male doctors, compounding the trauma].

Fucking hell. What a dreadful experience.

IceLollly · 10/07/2026 12:27

I know someone doing a fundraiser for them soon. What a waste of time and money that could go and do something good. She’s one of those mothers who has fully embraced the trans thing and her trans child is definitely the golden child of the family now. I feel sorry for her siblings.

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DearestGentleReader90 · 10/07/2026 12:21

Anyone fancy putting an application in for head of trustees? Wonder how many we could submit? 🙈😈

OP posts:

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 10/07/2026 12:11

Funding I can find

1
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
£283,000
2
The National Lottery Community Fund
£17,500
3
Henry Smith Foundation
£1,510

And also these named in their accounts for thanks

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
LGBT Consortium
MAC UK & Ireland VIVA GLAM
Foundation to Decrease World Suck

Surely they could all get some letters?

AnonyMumAuDHD · 10/07/2026 10:40

RobinEllacotStrike · 10/07/2026 09:57

Emma Watson will no doubt soon be along to fundraise for mermaids 🤪

She’s been rather quiet/absent in recent years, hasn’t she? Though I think she is at uni doing a postgrad, so maybe keeping her head below the parapet for now.

hethor · 10/07/2026 10:12

Bertiebiscuit · 10/07/2026 08:56

There's literally no unproven slander the moronic j k Rowling hating sheep won't sink to.

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You've misunderstood - the claim is that the current Mermaids CEO previously worked at an organization JK Rowling was the president of.

BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 10/07/2026 10:07

WittyLimeBiscuit · 10/07/2026 08:43

Rats leaving a sinking ship?
Let's hope so

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@RedToothBrush (thanks!) has a good analysis of what's possibly happening to these charities in general (and Amnesty in particular) over on the Amnesty thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5552410-a-growing-threat-the-anti-rights-movement-in-the-uk-says-amnesty-who-claim-over-50-are-gender-critical-groups?page=3

Similar grifting running up against funding issues and the road running out.

Page 3 | A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK says Amnesty who claim over 50% are Gender Critical groups | Mumsnet

Quote: ^Anti-rights actors seek a society in which women and men have fixed and distinct roles, based on what they view as ‘natural’ and ‘traditional...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5552410-a-growing-threat-the-anti-rights-movement-in-the-uk-says-amnesty-who-claim-over-50-are-gender-critical-groups?page=3

RobinEllacotStrike · 10/07/2026 09:57

Emma Watson will no doubt soon be along to fundraise for mermaids 🤪

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 10/07/2026 09:50

SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 09/07/2026 20:59

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1urvmyj/feminist_identified_transphobes_planning_to_take/

they think we’re serious

Off the scale levels of irony here.

Bertiebiscuit · 10/07/2026 09:00

heathspeedwell · 08/07/2026 16:11

I very much hope they are closed down.

The former head of Mermaids, Susie Green, was always saying that puberty blockers are a 'harmless pause button'.

But if you type 'Susie Green laughing' on YouTube you can see her admit in an interview that her son never went through puberty properly because she gave him blockers. His genitals literally never grew and that's why they had to remove part of his colon to create a 'neovagina'.

Of course a normal mother might be concerned that if one part of his body never formed properly, maybe other parts of his development were permanently stunted? But this didn't occur to her.

I'm looking forward to the champagne I'm going to drink when mermaids and stonewall go bust. They are as much a part of the woman hating manosphere as the Tate brothers, and should be as ruthlessly prosecuted for crimes against women and girls

Bertiebiscuit · 10/07/2026 08:56

DearestGentleReader90 · 08/07/2026 16:05

Hi everyone,

I have been a long term campaigner against Trans organisations and in particular Mermaids, after my 16 daughter became involved in their service and attended a radical event without my consent or knowledge. They 'empowered' her to basically not listen to any of my advice and do whatever she wants.
A friend of mine has reason to believe that there is trouble brewing and a lot of the staff and trustees/patrons are stepping down!!! Has anyone else heard anything similar?

I also was informed that the current CEO Johanna Hardy was previously employed at Gingerbread and the president was no other than the wonderful JK Rowling. I am surprised the alphabet crew havent made more of a fuss about that!!! 😮😮😮😮

DGR

There's literally no unproven slander the moronic j k Rowling hating sheep won't sink to.

WittyLimeBiscuit · 10/07/2026 08:43

DearestGentleReader90 · 09/07/2026 09:14

My daughter is unfortunately signed up to their volunteers newsletter so gets these updates. Luckily all the news of Trustees and staff leaving is making her question the stability of the charity 🤞

Rats leaving a sinking ship?
Let's hope so

KnottyAuty · 09/07/2026 22:58

This is from the charity commission website. Mermaids’ spending has been outpacing income for the last 3 years.

Surprising that it’s hung on for so long.