Mermaids being investigated by the charity commission

[MajorieEks]

“hoisted by their own petard” never seemed more apt, if true

"Silencing of critics by institutions
One fundamental aspect of predators committing child sexual abuse for years within organisations is the silencing of external criticism and internal whistle-blowing. "
How much down playing, cancelling, hounding and silencing of critics of gender ideology has there been?

Here's an archived copy from a couple of weeks ago. Breslow never made it onto the Mermaids website list, but is on the Charity Commission's one.

web.archive.org/web/20220930223818/mermaidsuk.org.uk/staff-and-trustees/

Wagamamma reverse-ferreting:

twitter.com/StoatlyL/status/1577367717442641920?t=TC57mt-HVhvABp2_OuATXA&s=19

Here's the archived Charity Commission one which someone posted upthread, I think:

archive.ph/2022.10.03-204542/register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/5054976/full-print

Yes, 100%.

It's so grubby and unnecessary. It can't be that hard to have robust systems in place to make sure you guard children's privacy, vet trustees and staff, refer to properly qualified medical authorities instead of disgraced suspended medics, refrain from sending out undergarments, don't promote harmful practises ... This organisation is running on around £1 million per year!

Susie Green pulls between 60 and 70k for running Mermaids. That's a decent salary. (I presume the one member of staff noted with this salary is Green, she's not named).

register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/5054976/accounts-and-annual-returns

Proper weird capitalisation:

It can't be that hard to have robust systems in place to make sure you guard children's privacy, vet trustees and staff, refer to properly qualified medical authorities instead of disgraced suspended medics, refrain from sending out undergarments, don't promote harmful practises

You’d think, wouldn’t you?

But it all does seem to be beyond them…and their cheerleaders, bafflingly, mostly do not give a shit.

TRA Twitter is very quiet right now. Very quiet indeed.

Susie Green has locked her twitter account.

I'm sure it's entirely unrelated

Oh to be a fly on the wall…

I've long been of the opinion that SG is not up to the job. Before she got the Mermaids job she worked for many, many years as the IT manager for the Leeds branch of the CAB, and I wonder how many of the skills the CEO of a large and fast-growing charity working with vulnerable children would be needed or developed in that job. She's not a graduate or an HCP. She's fanatical about the cause but what does she know about charity law? It's pretty clear she has no real understanding of safeguarding. Even her IT knowledge seems poor, given the data breach, which was caused by sheer sloppiness.

Yes, I would love to be there to hear how she makes it all the LGB Alliance’s fault. I’m sure it is…somehow…

I've been trying to see if Susie Green has been deleting tweets, but archive.org is overloaded right now

I've just checked the fox botherer's twitter and. It a single mention...🤷‍♀️

I don't really take much pleasure in saying 'See? We bloody told you'

But it's true.

Everyone said we were uptight squares.

This is what lack of safeguarding leads to.
This is what lack of due diligence leads to.

A massive charity led by someone who appears to have zero ability or understanding of both.

This is a national scandal.

Where are all those people who 3 days ago were praising mermaids to the skies? Surely if they really believed mermaids had done nothing wrong, we’d see the “island with mermaids” hashtag or similar?

Had this already been mentioned? According to Twitter Wagamama describes Mermaids as a "previous partner ".
Drop it like it's hot.

wagamama really backtracked fast. Wasn’t it only last month they were “proud partners”?

SOME are trying to argue this is not the sort of thing a charity would fine.

<because clearly, doing a quick Google check would not occur to anyone>

twitter.com/bluemouseeeek/status/1577327916995731459?s=61&t=KypU6EoBoDwgfIDqwQqNgQ

“Ok Mermaids trustee..

Standard safe recruitment practice will not detect a lecture given at a dodgy conference X years ago.

What matters is that as SOON as you find out anything like this as a charity you first of all prevent harm (resignation in this case), then you consider if any offense has or could have taken place (did the person spend time alone with vulnerable beneficiaries). You then consider if police are required and consider whether a safeguarding report is needed to the Charity Commission.

But an interview, references, signed statements on equality, diversity, financial suitability, a DBS check etc. None of that will detect either someone who knowingly has something to hide or doesn't even realise it might be an issue.“

This is a national scandal.

It worries me greatly that once Mermaids thankfully, come to an end, who will be waiting in the wings to offer “support” for venerable children and training for schools etc?

We can all see what will happen, government must step up and ensure that it doesn’t. It cannot be left to members of the public, yet again.

They could even say they've started doing it to pwn the T*#Fs. I don't really care if they start actually safeguarding out of spite or whatever, as long as it happens.

Eugh, that TRA is particularly disingenuous.
The "queer desires of children" is right there in the dudes LSE bio.
This wasn't buried deep.

It's in plain sight too. All the bloody time.

More receipts.

Mermaids showing solidarity with NSPCC after rubberwankman appointed MB as its advocate! You could not make it up.