Stonewall Annual Accounts

[TheAbbotOfUnreason]

Stonewall accounts are now up on Companies House.

From a quick skim (bearing in mind that these accounts cover 18 months and the previous accounts in 2019 covered 12 months):

More than 900 employers are on the Workplace Champions scheme.

Annualised income down by £617k compared to previous period.

No Dept for Education grant (this had been £299k in 2019).

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

£50k grant from Government Equalities office.

£742k claimed from Government covid funding.

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

Big donation (£125k) from the BT Supporters Club (which funds sport), this fund was being wound up in autumn 2020.

Wasn't there a question of whether Stonewall should have charitable status as it is more of a political lobby group?

That question needs to be asked of quite a few charities, in many fields.

@DdraigGoch

Wasn't there a question of whether Stonewall should have charitable status as it is more of a political lobby group?

That question needs to be asked of quite a few charities, in many fields.

Wasn't there a question of whether Stonewall should have charitable status as it is more of a political lobby group?

It is a question that needs asking.

Do disabled charities, or Age UK for example get such access to Government and such wads of funding?

AFAIR Stonewall have a charitable arm or something to enable them to stay registered as such ... their main raison d'etre surely seems to be political lobbying. Greenpeace dont get gov funding, any NGO with political bent isn't supposed to. But actually I think Greenpeace do also have a charitable arm.

Have just noticed a short article "The manufacturing of consensus"

"Bodies like Stonewall are falsely creating an imprimatur of civil demand"

by Mary Harrington in UnHerd,

This highlights the figures for government funding of Stonewall but also the wider concern about the influence of such lobby groups and the quango system in policy-making; and a potential means of counteracting its undermining effect on democracy by producing alternative groups such as LGB.

unherd.com/thepost/the-manufacturing-of-consensus/?mc_cid=c81d7eac2b&mc_eid=31e133b3a4

Tim Loughton asked a number of questions about SW, here:

members.parliament.uk/member/114/writtenquestions#expand-1388567

His most recent questions are on Diversity Role Models and Global Butterflies. If anyone is a constituent of his, it may be worth writing to him?

A reminder of DRM from June 2020:

safeschoolsallianceuk.net/2020/06/18/love-has-no-age-a-letter-to-asda/

This is DfE recently paid DRM, which is well after the "love has no age limit" business:

During Anti-Bullying Week, the department announced funding to five leading organisations, including Diversity Role Models, to deliver new anti-bullying projects which are aimed at preventing and tackling bullying of all children and young people, including those with protected characteristics. Diversity Role Models has been offered £187,530.00 grant funding for the period from 10 August to 31 March 2022 Further details can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-support-for-schools-to-tackle-bullying.
In addition to this, across financial years 2016-2020 Diversity Role Models was involved in two projects as part of the Government Equalities Office (then part of the Department for Education) Anti-Homophobic, Biphobic and Transphobic (HBT) Bullying programme. They received a payment of £57,057.45 in April 2016 and were provided with £131,231.25 to as part of the 2019-20 financial year extension of the Anti-HBT Bullying programme. Further details can be found here: https://www.diversityrolemodels.org/news/diversity-role-models-appeals-to-schools-to-use-new-funding-to-tackle-bullying-of-lgbt-pupils.

£742 K covid funding? is that furlough money? Surely most of them would have been working from home? It could all continue really.

@VestofAbsurdity

Government is moaning about not having enough money and yet they have enough to spend on political Lobby Groups, they shouldn't be doing that in the first place but in these times that should have been the first funding to be stopped.

Yep. We all need to write to our MP's, and Liz Truss about it. Bonkers that the government is keeping this organisation funded.

Equality and Diversity has become a behemoth. The juggernaut rolling through society and nothing able to stop it. Maybe the financial squeeze will allow government to take stock of all the money that goes to charities with little oversite so far as I can tell. It's a way of getting work done without government having to employ people. E & D has grown massively, not only in all of government institutions but in the private sector. There are business/financial reasons to keep feeding the monster. The US loves this stuff but the ideals of equal rights have been lost, it's now loudest wins, which is the absolute opposite of equality.

Still.....progressives are on the right side of history

Has anyone released the trend of personal donations to stonewall?

It’d be interesting to see which direction it was going.

Individual and corporate donations and legacies page from the accounts.

Thank you OP. That is interesting.

Bear in mind this set of accounts covers 18 months, whereas the 2019 accounts were for a 12 month period.

yes.

The figure is:

2016: 1.36 M
2017: 943K
2018: 977K
2019: 1.06 M
2020: 928K * adjusted from an 18 month figure

So a general downward trend with a slight pick up in 2019. In five years the figure has dropped by nearly a third.

And yet activists tell us that Stonewall is still as important.

No... it is a third less important to the individual. If I was Nancy, I would be asking how to make my organisation relevant again.

[quote ArabellaScott]Poking about on Stonewall's website, bit surprised to find they've shuffled the pack and dropped the 'g' for this international venture:

'We aim to address human rights violations faced by lesbians, bi women and trans people (LBT+) worldwide.'

'This project will be rolled out globally in over 23 countries.'

outofthemargins.org.uk/[/quote]
Hang on, what now? They have 'dropped' the G, wtf!

Is this so they wont annoy fundermental islamist regimes (that we are best buds with, like Saudi)?

They cant get more craven.

There needs to be more players in the field to deliver projects.
Stonewall obviously benefit from being the household name.
I'm not sure that a lobbying group should be a service provider as well - surely there's a clash of interest?