New financial declarations from top woke charities Stonewall and Mermaids show massive declines in income. Spare a thought for Jolyon Maugham…
Mermaids incurred losses of £285,496 with final reserves of minus £33,056, down from £226,224 last year. The charity reports reduced activity and that it has undergone “a full restructure to reduce costs.” Shedding jobs…
Stonewall is in an equally bad position. Its income fell from £6.9 million last year to £4.7 million. Higher spending of £5.6 million have produced a deficit of £906,000. Their cash reserves are down to £92,000 from £1 million…
The organisations are also supported by piecemeal grants from taxpayer-funded sources in their activities. At a university talk late last year trans campaigner Jolyon Maugham said the two charities were “essentially killed” by the Charity Commission after having to fight legal cases. The same strategy Jolyon is using unsuccessfully against the Institute of Economic Affairs…
It was actually Maugham’s Good Law Project which crowdfunded and supported Mermaids in its massively unsuccessful litigation against fellow charity the LGBA to have its status revoked. That’s what kicked off the downward spiral…
In other Jolyon news the campaigner told students he was setting up Good Law Project associations in universities in the New Year to establish them as “centres of resistance.” He’ll find a way to lose at that, too…
Speaking on Trump’s military action in Venezuela, Kemi Badenoch told the Today Programme:
“Where the legal certainty is not yet clear, morally, I do think it was the right thing to do.”