I wish they did share tokens. This is worth reading in full. Surely someone will archive it.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04/09/stonewall-accused-holding-no-10-ransom-650000-wasted-cancelled/
In addition to the £650K already spent:
"This newspaper has also learnt that the Cabinet Office signed off £5 million in February 2022 for the Government Equalities Office to bring the conference to fruition.
Official documents seen by The Telegraph show the total "required" budget for 'Safe To Be Me' was £8.1 million, with the remaining £3.1m expected to be approved closer to the time.
The true spending is likely to be higher than £650,000, as this excludes the salaries of at least eighteen civil servants who spent two years planning the event and ministers’ foreign trips to attract delegates and sponsors."
And there's reaction to this:
"Sir John Hayes, a senior Tory MP and former Cabinet Office minister, told The Telegraph: "If money has gone to groups including Stonewall, perhaps we can ask to send them a bill given this is taxpayers money.
"Involving Stonewall in anything like this was bound to lead to trouble. In the end it created the dilemma of not wanting them involved but on the other hand without their involvement, having no conference.
"The conference would clearly have been a facade given Stonewall were so heavily involved in shaping it. It's good that the Government have dropped that from the conversion therapy policy. Let's hope the lessons have been learned and we don't go down this road again, we don't want any of these people organising conferences on the taxpayer.
"Stonewall really needs to have no further involvement in Whitehall.""