Mermaids: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:26, 9 January 2024

Regulator announces statutory enquiry after identifying concerns about its governance and management.^[1]

A transgender children’s charity is giving potentially dangerous chest-flattening devices to 14-year-olds against their parents’ wishes^[6]

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 == Donors ==
-* Lottery funding
+* Received £500,000 National lottery funding.<ref name="lottery">https://archive.is/quOFy</ref>
+* Starbucks donated 50p per Mermaids cookie and committed to send £100,000.<ref name="starbucks">https://archive.is/DTzD4</ref>
-<blockquote>At the England National Funding Panel meeting on 21st November 2018 an award of £500,000 was made to the charity Mermaids.<ref name="lottery">https://archive.is/quOFy</ref></blockquote>
+* Received £10,000 from [[UK Youth]].<ref name="ukyouth">https://archive.is/PaVyq</ref>
-* Starbucks
-<blockquote>Mermaids is delighted to announce that we have partnered with speciality coffee retailer Starbucks...During the campaign, they’ll be selling a limited edition Mermaids cookie in selected stores across the UK. 50p from each cookie sold will go towards funding our helpline services...Starbucks has committed to a contribution of £100,000 to Mermaids for this partnership..<ref name="starbucks">https://archive.is/DTzD4</ref></blockquote>
-* UK Youth
-<blockquote>Mermaids, another transgender charity, received £10,000 in the 2019-20 financial year from a fund administered by UK Youth, a charity which receives hundreds of thousands of pounds each year in government grants and lottery funding.<ref name="telegraph">https://archive.is/PaVyq</ref></blockquote>
 == Charities Commission ==