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It seems @sheffcouncil fund @LGBTSheffield to run the City’s LGBT+ partnership, thereby helping deliver the City’s equality objectives. Is this good value and appropriate spending of residents money? 7/7

2026 looks promising with another large surplus accrued, a new grant from @TNLUK and presumably continued £10K funding from @sheffcouncil. Why are these organisations funding a charity that had over £48K misappropriated recently and can’t produce consistent accounts? 6/7

Accounts for 2025 show lessons have not been learned with this statement from the Independent Examiner. 5/7

@LGBTSheffield have just published long overdue accounts for 2024 - a bumper year showing an income of £53,770. Shockingly, standard outgoings are dwarfed by ‘loss of misappropriated funds’ of £40,640. 3/7

Evidence of yet another LGBT/Pride charity lacking financial management skills and possibly worse. @LGBTSheffield has over the years provided Pride events and LGBT network/drop-ins with an annual Pinknic, its flagship event. 1/7

Here is @heatherpaterson of @LGBTConsortium, at the @SheffCouncil-promoted #IDAHOBIT2025 day. #EqualityAct protects us all, yet Heather is unhappy that the @UKSupremeCourt has underlined the protection of woman as a sex class and clarified the definition of woman in law.

@_OliviaBlake tells us it will undermine the existence of GRCs IF THE GUIDANCE GOES THE WRONG WAY. but the guidance will follow the ruling & tells us a GRC does not grant person access to oppo sex services. @SheffCouncil please get your heads around this. Stalling helps no one

@tracygilbert72 intervenes: "Does she agree with me that Trans Women & Trans Men should have services & provisions on that basis & that sex & gender are two different things?" @_OliviaBlake thinks that's problematic & better that we interpret the EqAct as we did previously "

It is no longer @UKLabour Party policy to support Self ID, but one of our Sheffield MPs @_OliviaBlake carries on saying that we need to see self I.D.

#nomeninwomensprisons #KeepPrisonsSingleSex