Sex Matters has published its first annual report

[IwantToRetire]

Just posting the link to this as I thought others might be interested.

Not only about the work they have done but provided breakdown as to how money donated has been used.

https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/sex-matters-has-published-its-first-annual-report/

Thank you for the link IWTR.

Sex Matters are great but they’re also very well paid. They’re making millions of pounds annually. They should spread their good fortune around a bit- for women Scotland for instance

Sex Matters are great but they’re also very well paid. They’re making millions of pounds annually. They should spread their good fortune around a bit- for women Scotland for instance

I see no evidence for your claim. Last year Sex Matters raised £1.2 million & according to the report

The charity spent £843,730 during the year, split between staff and contractor costs, legal fees and other running costs. None of the trustees were paid by the charity.

Less than £850K for all the good work they do seems very good value for money.

Less than £850K for all the good work they do seems very good value for money.
Quite! Looking at the report, they have done so much. Even with the funding, quite incredible how much they have achieved. They must be working their asses off.

Who is making millions annually? There's no 'millions' in the accounts? You think they should give money to other organisations? How much? To whom? For which reason?

They spent:

• £120,000 on research
• £120,000 on legal action
• £250,000 on campaigns
• £152,000 on maintaining the helpdesk, resources and advice
• no fees to the trustees

And carried over the remainder to the next year.

For all they do it's incredibly good value for money. Even the comment by that poster that 'they are making millions' is untrue.

Sex Matters are a charity so can only spend the money they receive in accordance with their charitable objectives so cant necessarily just spread it around

I think they did give some money to FWS - it was mentioned in their report

A good reminder for me to up my donation a bit. There are still far too many entities ignoring the high court ruling that need legal support.

SM are good people doing good work. A great bunch of lads, you might say.

Evidence for this please? Im fairly sure they’re mostly/entirely voluntary.

That’s a shocking thing to allege if you have no evidence for it. In fact it’s probably defamatory, given that they’re a non profit body aren’t they?

Oh dear my mistake. I gathered they were on super salaries. Are they voluntary? I’m totally wrong if that is the case

What’s your source?

The number of employees, total salaries paid and highest salary paid are disclosed in the accounts if people want to check them.

I think it depends on who you mean by "they". The trustees are unpaid, but they do pay some people, clearly. It also depends on what you consider to be "super" salaries. Maybe you should provide some sources?

Yes, I've just looked it up: eight employees and £331,985 in salaries, which is an average of £41k per employee. Only one person has a salary of over £60k, and that person gets between £100-110k, which brings the remainder for the others get well below that £40k average, around £33k in fact.
Decent salaries but hardly fabulous amounts. Media and legal people are expensive. Even a secretary/PA: how much would one be paid in London?

Doubtless MF is the person paid between £110k and £100k.

Yes I assume the CEO gets the highest pay. But that's one person - which is not what the poster was saying - she said they were all paid "super salaries". They aren't.

Why do people make stuff up like that?

I agree that FWR seems to get more and more totally off the rails comments that randomly appear on threads.

But in this instance I think that Maya Forstater is the CEO.

https://sex-matters.org/about-us/team/

I think that's what I was saying? Not that who that is matters here - the point is that one person gets a relatively high salary and the others are around the 30k mark. That's hardly the "super salaries" and the "making millions" that was alleged.

I read it the other way!

Sorry.