Biscuit is becoming a charity!

Aim

After more than a decade as a community group, we're BECOMING A CHARITY! Help us transition and meet our first year of costs.

Since 2014, a dedicated team has run Biscuit for the bi+ community. Last year, we produced a poster celebrating our first 10 years. Take a look at it here.

We've run numerous social events, published resources, lobbied government at local and national levels, run training courses for our community, educated allies, and supported our community in countless ways.

We've also run bigger projects aimed at increasing bi+ visibility, like taking the first ever bi+ float to Pride in London, or putting up billboards all over the country. 

We genuinely love what we do! Our enthusiasm never wavers, however we have been limited by charity law.

Until now, charity law has limited how much we can hold, spend, and raise. That reality has meant stepping back from bigger ambitions and constantly tightening our costs just to keep moving forward. We want to change that. Becoming a charity will open new doors: the ability to apply for grants, to join the Gift Aid scheme so every donation goes further, and to build a sustainable long-term future for Biscuit. It means investing in our people; supporting volunteers to step into paid roles so they can dedicate real time to strengthening bi+ lives. It means building deeper and stronger partnerships with other charities, grassroots groups, and corporate allies.

In short, it allows us to grow the movement with the stability, reach, and purpose our community deserves.

Our year one plans

• Set up a community venue accreditation scheme to keep you safer from biphobia

• Open our archive of 70+ years of press clippings up to researchers, students and the community so that our history is better understood 

• Work with employers so you're better supported at work

• Increase the number and quality of resources we can offer - and make more of them available in print

And longer term

• Work with mental health service providers to give you a better chance of staying healthy

• Train the new generation of activists to keep our movement growing

• Fund research so we can better understand your needs

• Financially support smaller initiatives and volunteer led projects

• Send our team on training courses to keep their skills polished

Of course, we'll continue to offer all the services we currently do, like our pride packs and meetup packs for organisers, our regular meet up Bi+ Brixton and our other events, like the annual picnic. We'll also continue our visibility campaigns (like our Think Again posters and our 2019 billboards).

What we're asking for

We'd like to raise £2500 to help us transition to registered charity status and set the foundations needed to operate responsibly and effectively.

That will cover

• Legal advice (to make sure everything is by the book)

• Professional accountancy (so we start off on the right foot)

• Our most basic first year costs (like keeping our site online and reprinting our resources with our registered charity number)

• Training costs for our team to learn how to write effective grant applications

• And lots of small expenses like making sure our trustees can attend meetings, our shop has enough envelopes and our donated printer doesn't run out of ink 

For more than a decade Biscuit's success has been down to you. You've given time, money and effort and energy to making every project we've run a success. By supporting this campaign, you’re helping us turn a grassroots community idea into a lasting organisation dedicated to connection, community and visibility. Thank you.

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 15th June 2026 at 2:29pm