Operating protective services and administering platform participation

South West Grid for Learning Trust / SWGfL

South West Grid for Learning Trust, usually called SWGfL, is the charity behind StopNCII and the Revenge Porn Helpline. It combines frontline support with technical services, controls routes into its partner programmes and contributes expertise used in UK online-safety regulation.

SWGfL is a charity operating practical online-safety services, including the Revenge Porn Helpline and StopNCII. Its position in this network comes from running services other organizations use, as well as participating in the policy debate. Its trustees are the company's members and hold management and appointment powers, with delegations that can be limited or revoked.

StopNCII helps address non-consensual intimate images through a system of reference information and participating services. Its technical documentation describes several routes for information to enter the system, including public users, reviewed NGO cases and provider submissions. The documentation also distinguishes statuses and feedback. These details matter because a reference supplied to a platform begins a process that the receiving service must interpret and act upon.

SWGfL administers routes for businesses to join that infrastructure. Its published diagrams describe registration, verification, agreement, payment and technical integration for an approved participant, with additional engagement for programme partners. Its screening policy provides human consideration of adverse results and a review route where screening informs a negative decision. The service therefore depends on organizational access decisions as well as software.

Its resources come through several channels. The 2025 accounts recognize £773,395 from Nominet for UK Safer Internet Centre work and £225,000 from the Home Office for violence-against-women work. Ofcom's September 2026 non-consensual-image announcement describes SWGfL expertise through a partnership and recommends StopNCII as one suitable option. That connection shows how a charity-operated service can move from practical assistance into the set of tools a regulator points companies toward.

Assessment updated 2026-09-12

Detailed records and research

What the records show

Nominet UKSouth West Grid for Learning Trust / SWGfL

was identified as the source of a recognized UKSIC grant

Recipient accounting period, not exact payment dates.

SWGfL Note19 records Nominet grant income and expenditure of GBP 773,395 in FY 2025, zero opening/closing restricted balance, and expressly states UKSIC consortium-operation purpose. FY 2024 comparative income was GBP 842,780. Recognition requires entitlement, relevant performance conditions, probable receipt and measurement; these are not bank receipts or a donor acceptance certificate. Pershing/StopNCII remains a separate purpose. Financial details: value: 773,395; currency: GBP; kind: SWGfL recognized Nominet restricted-grant income; period: Year ended 31 March 2025

MetaSouth West Grid for Learning Trust / SWGfL

is labelled as comparative restricted support in the accounts

META/Facebook fund:FY2024£20000 incoming and expended, purpose combating NCII sharing/supporting victims. Exact paying Meta entity and StopNCII-only allocation unestablished; no FY2025row does not establish all support ended. Financial details: value: 20,000; currency: GBP; kind: comparative restricted income; equal expense; period: Year ended31March2024

South West Grid for Learning Trust / SWGfLPartner business screening / challenge process

publishes human screening review and narrow challenge commitments

Adverse screening results receive human context review; not solely automated refusal. Where screening informs an adverse decision, uninvolved review, correction/annotation and vendor correction are offered; acknowledgment2workingdays,response30workingdays. Not universal admission appeal or observed performance.

South West Grid for Learning Trust / SWGfLPosted StopNCII partner terms / missing DSA

posts an access instrument with unresolved drafting and identity conflicts

Introduction company5589479/charities1120354,SC051351 contrasts definition03948864/1099649. Empty hash definition, undefined-purpose terminology and bracketed periods remain. No legal entity is merged based on those erroneous/conflicting fields.

South West Grid for Learning Trust / SWGfLStopNCII reference/status dataset

documents provider credentials and several input categories

API describes CSP submissions, NGO-reviewedActive and public-userReceived entries, associated cases and independent feedback. Public-user eligibility is not the only institutional input; described types are not proof every function is deployed.

SWGfL trustees / corporate membersSouth West Grid for Learning Trust / SWGfL

may impose budget limits and revoke recorded delegations

2024-10-10 – 2024-10-10

Articles19–26 give meeting/alternate agreement rules, qualified conflicts, CEO appointment and recorded/revocable committees. Terms may require Board approval or agreed budget; no actual StopNCII delegation/minute acquired.

Pershing Grant — legal donor unresolvedSouth West Grid for Learning Trust / SWGfL

is recorded as restricted incoming and expended resources

Pershing Grant FY2025£75802 and FY2024comparative£78847 each matched by expense with zero opening/closing restricted balance. Legal donor unresolved; accounting recognition, not bank cash or full StopNCII budget.

SWGfL trustees / corporate membersSouth West Grid for Learning Trust / SWGfL

hold sole corporate membership and management rights

2024-10-10 – 2024-10-10

Articles8/10/13–14 make trustees the only members, with one vote each and trustee appointment by resolution. Corporate membership differs from paying platform participation.

Further reading

Nominet resources: recipient accounts and delivery

Status of remaining Additional Safety Measures

SWGfL, StopNCII and the Revenge Porn Helpline: operator resources and decision rights

Partner access, contributions and downstream actions

StopNCII public-user authority: entry, withdrawal and continuing platform decisions

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What the connections say

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Metais labelled as comparative restricted support in the accountsSouth West Grid for Learning Trust / SWGfL

META/Facebook fund:FY2024£20000 incoming and expended, purpose combating NCII sharing/supporting victims. Exact paying Meta entity and StopNCII-only allocation unestablished; no FY2025row does not establish all support ended.

Financial details: value: 20,000; currency: GBP; kind: comparative restricted income; equal expense; period: Year ended31March2024

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South West Grid for Learning Trust / SWGfLposts an access instrument with unresolved drafting and identity conflictsPosted StopNCII partner terms / missing DSA

Introduction company5589479/charities1120354,SC051351 contrasts definition03948864/1099649. Empty hash definition, undefined-purpose terminology and bracketed periods remain. No legal entity is merged based on those erroneous/conflicting fields.

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South West Grid for Learning Trust / SWGfLpublishes human screening review and narrow challenge commitmentsPartner business screening / challenge process

Adverse screening results receive human context review; not solely automated refusal. Where screening informs an adverse decision, uninvolved review, correction/annotation and vendor correction are offered; acknowledgment2workingdays,response30workingdays. Not universal admission appeal or observed performance.

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