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Stonewall welcomes Simon Blake OBE as new CEO

We are proud to announce Simon Blake OBE as our incoming Chief Executive. Simon, who will begin his new role in September, brings to Stonewall a...

Stonewall Appoints New Treasurer and Trustee

Stonewall continues to strengthen its Board of Trustees, with the appointment of a new Treasurer, Caroline Stockmann, and new Trustee Kushal Khandhar...

24 Celebrities Demand Immediate Action on Conversion Therapy from PM.

2nd November 2023 – Stonewall, the largest LGBTQ+ organisation in Europe, with the support of celebrities from across music, film and fashion call...

Catherine Dixon Appointed Stonewall Chair

Stonewall’s Board of Trustees have unanimously elected Catherine (Cat) Dixon as Chair. This follows Iain Anderson’s appointment by the Shadow...

246 Human Rights Organisations Urge PM: Respect the Lives of LGBTQ+ and Women Migrants

4th October 2023 – Europe's largest LGBTQ+ right charity Stonewall has been joined by 245 other organisations across the human rights, refugee, LGBTQ...

Read in full: Stonewall's written submission for the GRR Section 35 Judicial Review

We are pleased to note that Stonewall’s intervention submissions in the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill Judicial Review have been of value...

Stonewall appoints new Vice Chairs and Trustee

Stonewall continues to strengthen the diversity of its Board of Trustees, following the appointment of Cat Dixon and Jean Vianney Cordeiro as Vice...

LGBTQ+ Organisations to intervene on the UK Government's Block on the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in Scotland

18th August 2023, London – Europe's largest LGBTQ+ right charity Stonewall, Gendered Intelligence and the Institute for Constitutional and Democratic...

EHRC ‘actively harming’ trans people, ignoring international recommendations, charities warn

The UK’s human rights watchdog, the EHRC, is a ‘failed institution’ which is recommending the UK Government change equalities law in a way that rolls back the rights of trans people. This course of action goes against the advice of its own national committees