Mermaids
Donors
- Sport England
One of the cases that is understood to have prompted the move involved Sport England, which receives government grants and National Lottery money, paying more than £140,000 to Gendered Intelligence for transgender inclusion training over the course of two years.[1]
- Starbucks
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..[2]
- Lottery funding
At the England National Funding Panel meeting on 21st November 2018 an award of £500,000 was made to the charity Mermaids.[3]
- UK Youth
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.[1]
Stories
Trans charity Mermaids giving breast binders to children behind parents’ backs.[4]
People
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/09/02/trans-activist-charities-receive-taxpayers-money-loophole/
- ↑ https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/whats-your-name/#:~:text=Just%20like%20us%2C%20Starbucks%20believes,towards%20funding%20our%20helpline%20services
- ↑ https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/media/documents/Mermaids-UK-Review-Report_February-2019.pdf
- ↑ https://archive.ph/YuMU4#selection-1215.1-1215.90
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/patrons/