Stonewall Running Out of Money After Backlash Against Trans Activism
Stonewall is running out of money, with a deficit last year of nearly £1 million, after funding from the public sector and businesses dried up following a backlash against trans activism and DEI schemes. The Mail has more.
Stonewall has plunged into the red as funding from the public sector and businesses wilted.
The controversial LGBT group’s income fell from £6.9 million in 2024 to £4.7 million in the last financial year, accounts show, but spending of £5.6 million left it with a net deficit of £906,362.
This put its “total funds” in reserve at just £91,811 in March 2025 – down from £998,173 only 12 months earlier.
The group received £1.8 million in fees for its contentious diversity awards schemes – which rated workplaces’ LGBT inclusion levels – down from £2.4 million in 2024, after a host of big names began distancing themselves amid concerns over Stonewall’s radical stance on trans rights.
Corporation donations also fell to £143,149 in 2025, down from £348,636 in 2024. Stonewall said it received £454,645 in grants from “government sources” but did not include any details. In its previous annual report, the figure was £618,757.
The charity was co-founded in 1989 by actors Sir Ian McKellen and Michael Cashman, among others, and won a string of victories for gay rights, including legalising same-sex marriage. But in recent years it vociferously campaigned for trans rights – lobbying the NHS, police and Whitehall to introduce ‘inclusive’ policies and gender-neutral language.
John O’Connell, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said last night: “This is a spectacular implosion of a taxpayer-propped woke racket that is finally running out of other people’s money.”
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Good news.! An organisation that has existed far beyond any good that it has ever done. Turned and twisted to corrupt the minds and social reality of our existence.
Long overdue – Stonewall goes to the wall!
Hopefully dropping like a stone.
It should have been wound up after gay marriage but presumably only exists to justify the salaries of its workforce.
Gay marriage, hailed by Call Me Dave as one of the few ‘achievements’ of his disastrous leftwing governments but considered by the wider gay community not being paid like Stonewall as unnecessary given that civil partnership exists and that it provoked a negative response from normal people.
The late, great British patriot and free speech proponent: Peter Whittle, was married. To a man who was neither white nor indigenous English. At least two facts which will go down like a lead balloon with many on here. As somebody who is of a non-judgemental nature, I couldn’t care less what other adults get up to or how they choose to live their lives. I’m just glad he got to do that before he passed;
https://x.com/prwhittle/status/1933446523427209691?s=20
I’m not sure why Peter Whittles personal life, the race and nationality of his partner would “go down like a lead balloon with some on here”.? Not being judgemental, are we.?
Because the remarks posted by people on here about homosexual men, gay marriage and non-white people with a migration background are always so respectful and kind aren’t they?🙄
Fhs, you give us a list of (some?) of your trigger issues. Then your opinion, delivered as sarcasm, “…. always so respectful and kind, etc…” If I gave a monkeys, I might already be offended. In fact, I am, but likely not as you imagine.
Who exactly is always expecting (or arbitrating) respectfulness and kindness on here? DS’s mods or you? Ok, ok, you dislike being offended by the opinions of others. I and – I’m guessing – we get it. But Mog, that is the price of free speech.
We’re not children and you’re not the schoolyard monitor. You can have civility from me Mog and I never deliberately lie or deceive (except to my kids when they were very young) but, beyond that, you can whistle…
What “trigger issues”? Says the person who is doing a darn good demonstration of being effectively triggered. Projection, much? 🧐 You don’t appear to be very tolerant of anyone with opposing viewpoints. Could it be that you’re yet another member of the “Rules for thee but not for me” brigade? A.k.a: just another free speech fraud? You and your ilk get to say whatever the hell you like but God forbid anybody should have the audacity to remark on it. That’s called ‘hypocrisy’ where I’m from. Blatant double standards. Listen, people can be as bigoted as they like on here for all I care but don’t you dare attempt to place restrictions on MY free speech and dictate what I can and can’t say whenever I choose to challenge individuals or make observations on people’s behaviour on here, because that’s *censorship*. Get it?? And I, unlike you, am not attempting to censor or shut down anyone. And one last thing: “If I gave a monkeys, I might already be offended. In fact, I am,” I have never once stated that I’m offended on here. Again, that’s YOU projecting your hissy fit emotional rant on to ME! “Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean… Read more »
I tried to be concise, civil and clear for you, but a tirade of ad hominem bs is the best you can do? I’m thinking Q.E.D. Over and out.
YOU are OFFENDED. YOU are TRIGGERED. You are PROJECTING your feelings onto me. You talk about free speech but without reciprocation it’s a one-way street. You get to say what you want but I get effectively told to “shut up” and censored, all because I have different views? Does your right to free speech trump mine, then? If everybody gets to say what they want then that must also apply to those with opposing opinions. You do get that logic, right? And what’s this?: “We’re not children and you’re not the schoolyard monitor.” Where have I tried to be? Where have I ever told somebody to “shut up and stop saying that”, like some self-appointed moderator? Which is what numerous people have said to me in various ways in response to my comments on here. Making an observation or challenging somebody with a counter-argument is not remotely the same as trying to censor somebody just because you don’t like what they say. Which is what you’re accusing me of but ironically it’s what you’re attempting to do with me. You accuse me of everything you’re guilty of. There are too many intolerant free speech frauds on here. People who say… Read more »
I see very little on DS that is derogatory about homosexuals. Most people at least know, work with, or are related to a homosexual, and gay people are accepted. There are derogatory comments about how the progressive left have pushed this as a political campaign perhaps, but no-one gets their feathers ruffled by individual people being gay anymore.
Similarly, ‘non-white migrants’. On a personal level, I know lots of non white migrants and it doesn’t trouble me. There is usually enough common ground for us to be at least friendly and respectful to each other. On the other hand, we have a massive economic and societal problem with the overloading of uncontrolled migration. This is a different thing. Respectful and kind is a fallacy. IMO. This whole industry to tell us not to defend, protect, and respect our way of life due to ‘kindness’ is what has left us in the muddle we are in today. Kindness to others is our choice, not a compulsory response. My views only. Anyone else can speak for themselves.
Nah. You’re at it again Mog, making category errors, conflating the issues and so, reinforcing your own judgmental and entrenched opinions.
Er…what are you even on about? What’s “judgemental” about making observations about comments made on here on the regular?😄
Ooh, looks like the DS Borg has kicked into gear. All views which diverge from the general consensus and don’t conform to the permitted opinions of the collective hive mind must be dealt with, stat! Breaching the parameters of the DS echo chamber will not be tolerated. “Deploy the Thumbs of Dooom!”😱
Actually, I think loads of people on here would be lost without those thumbs, such is their over-reliance on this psychological tool. Imagine being such an impotent coward that you can’t even string a couple of sentences together by way of a counterargument…🤔 I assume that means you have none. But that’s free speech frauds for you. You wear your hypocrisy like a high vis jacket. Not much else to say, is there?😏
As you were> 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
Eric Hoffer.
“won a string of victories for gay rights, including legalising same-sex marriage”
As Justice Thomas put it in his dissent in Obergefell v Hodges:
“Since well before 1787, liberty has been understood as freedom from government action, not entitlement to government benefits.”
I don’t care much about “gay marriage” one way or the other, but I am not sure it should be termed a “rights” issue. I tend to think the state should get out of the marriage business entirely.
True, they should, but then how would they be able to own the children?
For clarity, I don’t think they should in any way, except to save children at risk from abuse, neglect or mistreatment.
In the words of the great Windsor Davies,
“Oh dear, how sad, never mind. BACK ON YER ‘EADS!!!”
I wonder if it’s staff get civil service pensions.
I’ll do whatever I want to with anyone who wants to join me. So, you do whatever you want, etc., just don’t, “do it in the road,” “frighten the horses,” or make me watch you and ffs, don’t insist on my approval. Now fck off, you attention-addicted megalomaniac narcissist cuhts.
* ‘Hats off’ to: the Beatles (The White Album, “Why don’t we do it in the road?”) and Mrs Patrick Campbell (in Dent (1961), p78)
How very sad….not…… what wonderful way to start the New Year.
Good. Vile organisation that had NO public mandate to go in and pervert people, the public sector and corporations.
It would be interesting to ‘follow the money’ and see just where, exactly, so much has gone in such a short time, particularly as they get paid for lecturing your staff on being kind…
Oh dear – what a shame! I shall look forward to the funeral.
Oh well
But, but, there will be all those ex-Stonewall people seeking employment in other ‘activist’ organisations.
They can retrain to learn the art / skill of dry stonewalling.
i.e. doing something useful for once in their pointless and miserable lives.
I’m heartbroken, I tell you – heartbroken!
It’s worth noting that some of the credit for Stonewall’s struggles and, with a bit of luck, its eventual death throes (and, as people and organisations desert the bandwagon, the failure of similarly deluded and divisive organisations) should go to Trump and Musk. Previously Stonewall received ~£250kpa from USAID.
Good. I hope that means they’re indoctrinating a few less schoolchildren with their “woke” trans nonsense.