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Stonewall Equality Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £4.7m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.stonewall.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Stonewall Equality Limited
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.7m£5.6m
  • 2024£6.9m£7.8m
  • 2023£7.8m£8.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.8m£8.2m
  • 2021£12m£13m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 9% · Government grants 10%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable 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.

Grants received

29 grants · £2,081,927 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

  • LGBT Consortium £6002021-01-22
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £98,9112020-10-05
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5,0002020-01-24
  • Comic Relief £49,9892019-07-03
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £494,8182018-05-18
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

9 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 5Finance 3Business services 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4.7m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.4 in 2021

76 from 135 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
18%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1101255
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09/08/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/09/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/04/2008AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 16/03/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 04/11/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07 FEB 2018
Companies House
Company number 02412299 · Active
Contact on the register
02075931850 · info@stonewall.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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