Don’t be fooled by the marketing speak. Operation Fundraiser was simply “re-organised” for tax purposes, it happens all the time in the voluntary sector. Funds are still distributed in the same way but by a group appointed by Pride, administered by the LGF. It’s almost the same setup – infact it even has the same chair person. Emma Peate still chases groups for the buckets on their pride stall year after year, oh look the same person still has those responsibilities. Nothing has changed, just the set-up.

Members of the community have been calling for more openness and transparency around where the money goes for years, it only leads to more vague and misleading multi-coloured pie charts and expensive glossy annual reports designed to cover-up any discrepancies published by the same people who have lost their creditials and are flogging a dead horse to keep their own interests afloat.