Since the beginning of 2024, Jolyon Maugham KC and his Good Law Project have been busy holding people and organisations they don’t like to account, standing against hate, and bringing hope. Or something. And, to support this transformational activity, they have launched no fewer than 34 crowdfunders (an average of 1.9 per month, or one every two weeks). Well, holding power to account doesn’t come cheap.

So much for legal action being the remedy of last resort, eh?

Those 34 crowdfunders have (so far) raised a combined total of £1,358,434. Of which a stonking £880,560 (65%) has been raised via the 11 crowdfunders in support of Maugham’s ‘Angry Dad’ lawfare on Transgenderism. One of those 11 crowdfunders – that in support of the GLP’s doomed legal challenge to the EHRC’s April 2025 Interim Update, dismissed by the High Court in February this year – has raised a mahoosive £489,487, making it the GLP’s most lucrative crowdfunder … EVER! And it’s still open and still accepting new donations. Ker-ching!

Whether or not the so-called ‘trans community’ and its allies consider themselves to be getting value for money from Maugham and the GLP is now an open question, but their remarkable generosity in handing over their spare cash is plain to see from the following chart. Since 1 January 2024, the average donation to the GLP’s crowfunders in support of lawfare to ‘hold power to account’ or ‘fight the far right’ has rarely been more than £19. But, with a few exceptions – such as the GLP’s trivial claim against the US law firm Morrison Foerster, and their latest crowdfunder in support of malevolent legal action against Ofcom – the average donation to the GLP’s crowdfunders on transgenderism is generally nearer to twice that amount.

Note that the average donation to the short-lived GLP crowdfunder in support of their attempt to intervene in the case of the EHRC office protest ban in June 2025 was not £50, as the chart suggests, but £833, as there were only ever 19 donations and one of them – made by the professional activist Patsy Stevenson – was for some £15,000. Ker-ching!

So, whatever happens in court over the next few months – and the GLP’s crowdfunder-funded application to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal the kicking they were given by the High Court in February is currently with a Lord/Lady Justice for a judicial decision on the papers – it seems likely that Maugham and the GLP will continue to beg money from the so-called ‘trans community’ and its allies.

Because … Ker-ching!