GiveOut

Who we are

GiveOut is an award-winning international LGBTQI community foundation enabling individuals and corporate allies to give in one place to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) human rights activism worldwide.

Across the world, LGBTQI people face appalling human rights abuses for being themselves. Courageous activists are doing vital work to improve the lives of LGBTQI people, but they lack resources and funding is fragile, especially in the Global South and East. The LGBTQI community and allies want to provide support, but it is not always easy to do so. GiveOut’s purpose is to help address this urgent need by providing a platform for them to give tax efficiently in one place to fund LGBTQI human rights activism worldwide. The charity pools the donations it receives to provide grants to LGBTQI organisations globally, ensuring they have more of the resources they need to defend their communities, tackle inequality and campaign for lasting change.

Our culture and values

Our vision is of a world in which LGBTQI people everywhere can live their lives openly and fully, free from discrimination, fear and violence.

To achieve this vision, our mission is to grow giving to support the global struggle for LGBTQI human rights.  

To guide our work and decisions, we have five core organisational values: 

1. Respect – We are respectful to each other, our supporters and partners. We are an open and approachable grant-maker, providing resources not strategies, aware of our privilege, and working in a way that seeks to avoid power asymmetry.

2. Ambition – We are ambitious to make a meaningful difference to the global LGBTQI movement and the lives of LGBTQI people. We are aware that change may take time, are committed to learning, and hopeful that innovative strategies can achieve lasting change.

3. Integrity – We use our supporters’ donations responsibly, efficiently and effectively, working with transparency, integrity and accountability, and we strive to complement and collaborate with existing funding infrastructure in the LGBTQI movement.

4. Solidarity – We are part of and work in solidarity with the global LGBTQI human rights movement, harnessing the power of our community and allies, and fostering connections to provide long-term and sustainable support.

5. Equity – We recognise the diversity of the global LGBTQI movement and seek to reflect this. We provide support across the movement, understanding that different parts of our community need different levels of support in different places.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Key Principles

1. To provide equality, fairness and respect for all in our employment, whether temporary, part-time or full-time, paid or voluntary. This policy applies to anyone working for Give Out. This includes employees, contractors, work experience students, and visitors. The policy also relates to job applicants and is relevant to all stages of the employment relationship. The policy also applies to bullying or harassment by third parties.

2. To not unlawfully discriminate against the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

3. Oppose and avoid all forms of unlawful discrimination across all areas of the organisation. This includes, but is not limited to, pay and benefits, terms and conditions of employment, dealing with grievances and discipline, dismissal, redundancy, leave for parents, requests for flexible working, and selection for employment, promotion, training or other developmental opportunities.