HEALTH EQUALITY AND RIGHTS ORGANISATION
Registered charity 1076854 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5513764 · Wikipedia · also known as GAY MEN FIGHTING AIDS, GMFA, LGBT HERO
HERO provides LGBTQ people with accurate and credible information so they can build skills that enable them to make informed choices about their health and well-being. HERO encourages LGBTQ people to create social change in our communities by providing a platform where LGBTQ people are heard and valued.
Objects
(A) TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE PUBLIC HEALTH IN PARTICULAR AMONGST THE GAY MALE, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER POPULATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. (B) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE SUBJECTS AFFECTING THE HEALTH OF THE GAY MALE, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER POPULATION INCLUDING THE CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF ILLNESS IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF RESEARCH.
Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON
The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts
Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £145,515 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £132,381. The trustees note that the organisation faces financial pressures due to the conclusion of contracts and delays in securing new income, but confirm that current reserves and confirmed income allow the charity to deliver planned work beyond 2025-2026.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three to six months of operating costs (reserves figure: £132k)
“allows the charity to hold sufficient cashflow for approximately three to six months of operating costs”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Policies the charity declares
In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)
Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 119
- Government income: £32,960 — grants £32,960 (2); 20% of the £168,568 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 89
- Government income: £52,964 — contracts £50,995 (1), grants £1,969 (1); 16% of the £329,403 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 100
- Government income: £60,079 — grants £60,079 (1); 14% of the £430,158 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
Corporate structure
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- KOSECKI, Slawomir Karol — director, appointed 25/03/2026on trustee list
- FOLARIN, Taofique — director, appointed 25/03/2026on trustee list
- POMEROY, Matthew — director, appointed 25/03/2026on trustee list
- HAWORTH, Jonathan — director, appointed 13/09/2023on trustee list
- HARVEY, Michael — director, appointed 22/06/2022on trustee list
- WATTERS, Ian Richard — director, appointed 14/01/2020on trustee list
- BRUNNER, Roland Thomas — director, appointed 13/11/2018on trustee list
Official officers record.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England
Income and spending
Common questions
Is HEALTH EQUALITY AND RIGHTS ORGANISATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £145,515 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £132,381. The trustees note that the organisation faces financial pressures due to the conclusion of contracts and delays in securing new income, but confirm that current reserves and confirmed income allow the charity to deliver planned work beyond 2025-2026. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds HEALTH EQUALITY AND RIGHTS ORGANISATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name HEALTH EQUALITY AND RIGHTS ORGANISATION as a grant recipient include THE MCCARTHY & STONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
Known funders
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Government & lottery funding
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