STONEWALL EQUALITY LIMITED

Registered charity 1101255 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q681943 · Wikipedia · also known as THE STONEWALL LOBBY GROUP LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC039681 (OSCR)

Promoting equality and human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.

Objects

TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS(A) MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS(B) RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES(C) EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS(D) PROVIDING ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS(E) CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW(F) COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION(G) RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES(H) PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS(I) PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS(J) INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS(K) ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTSIN FURTHERANCE OF THAT OBJECT, BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDE THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE CHARITY CARRIES OUT ITS OBJECTS.TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUND OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY;A) RAISING AWARENESS OF ALL ASPECTS OF DISCRIMINATION IN SOCIETY BY PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES, USE OF THE MEDIA, PUBLIC ADVOCACY AND OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATION;B) CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF THE SAME TO THE PUBLIC;C) ADVANCING EDUCATION IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY WHETHER BY TEACHING OR PRODUCING MATERIALS;D) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY BY THE USE OF PUBLICATIONS, CODES OF PRACTICE, SCHEMES FOR EMPLOYERS, AWARD SCHEMES, THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC ADVOCACY;E) PROMOTING THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW RELATING TO EQUALITY ISSUES BY;I) THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION TO PEOPLE WHO ARE UNABLE TO OBTAIN SUCH LEGAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION AS A RESULT OF THEIR LACK OF RESOURCE;II) THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST LEGAL INTERVENTION TO ASSIST THE COURTS; ANDIII) THE PROVISION OF ADVICE ON THE INSTITUTIONS, STRUCTURES AND MECHANISMS BY WHICH SUCH LAW IS ENFORCED;TO RELIEVE POVERTY; ANDTO PROMOTE ANY OTHER PURPOSE WHICH IS CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £906,362 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following significant restructuring costs. Unrestricted reserves fell to a negative £113,000 post-restructure, with the trustees noting there were no free reserves at the end of the year. Despite this, the trustees maintain a going concern basis, citing projections to March 2027 that demonstrate capacity to continue under the new cost base.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Nyman Libson Paul LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Stonewall (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Simon Blake OBE — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Debbie Doobay — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Catherine Riley — Director of Strategy, Communications and External Affairs (source)
• Ayla Holdom — Chair (Interim) (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (73% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 21.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kezia Dugdalechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clare Fielding
• Jake Graf
• John Dickinson-Lilley
• Sadiq Gillani
• Sean Latus
• Sir Ben Bradshaw
• Steven Friel · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tayibatu Oladunni Alao

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STONEWALL HOUSING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

• STONEWALL HOUSING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £30k
• TRUSTWELL LIMITED income £162k
• STONE CROSS MEMORIAL HALL income £33k
• RIGHTS & EQUALITY SANDWELL income £105k
• LGB ALLIANCE income £383k
• LGBT SHEFFIELD income £37k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.