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Jules's avatar

Time to boycott businesses that are still trumpeting their support for this ideology. Obviously money is all that matters to them so presumably they'll think again if they start losing it.

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Jane Doe's avatar

The barrack lawyer in me led me to google the role of trustees. On the Government website it says since 2020 charity trustees details have to be in the public domain. The Charity Commission will allow dispensations - these have to be applied for and evidence provided to demonstrate why it would be dangerous for the trustees' names to be withheld. The dispensation application can take up to 30 days to process. This raises questions. I understand that Dr B was never shown publicly and that his name only came out through documents released to the courts as part of the Mermaids/LGB Alliance case.

So (1) Did Mermaids apply for a dispensation for Dr B when he joined the board.? And if so on what grounds? (2) Have Mermaids applied and have been granted in a few days dispensation for their other trustees whose names have disappeared from their website? Again, on what grounds? Methinks this is another area where the organisation has broken the law. I don't believe the trustees are going to have death threats, just people googling their past and asking serios questions. Perhaps a letter (recorded delivery) to trustees and senior management from a lawyer would produce results.

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