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• Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council
• Barnet London Borough Council
• Bexley London Borough Council
• Brent London Borough Council
• Brick Lane Circle
  A charity aimed at developing historical, cultural and heritage awareness among Bangladeshi communities in Britain
• Bromley London Borough Council
• Camden London Borough Council
• Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery
• City of London Corporation
• Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, London
  A commission appointed by the Greater London Authority and the Mayor of London 'to enrich and add to the current public realm and advise on better ways to raise public understanding behind existing statues, street names, building names and memorials. It is committed to building an accessible programme which is sensitive to the beliefs, views and opinions of all Londoners, helping people have a better understanding of London’s diverse histories.'
• Croydon London Borough Council
• Ealing London Borough Council
• Enfield London Borough Council
• Greenwich London Borough Council
• Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation
• Hackney London Borough Council
• Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council
• Haringey London Borough Council
• Harland & Wolff
  Major shipping company in the United Kingdom, formed in the mid-nineteenth century and still in existence today. Harland & Wolff was actively involved in supporting Britain's maritime empire with its ship-building yards across the UK. Harland & Wolff built ships for a number of companies involved in empire, such as the African Steamship Company, the Asiatic Steam Navigation Company, and the West India & Pacific Steam Navigation Company, During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Harland & Wolff allegedly received orders for steamers from the Confederate States of America, which was fighting to preserve the institution of slavery in the United States, although whether these orders were actually carried out has not yet been proven.
• Harrow London Borough Council
• Havering London Borough Council
• Hillingdon London Borough Council
• Hounslow London Borough Council
• Islington London Borough Council
• Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council
• Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council
• Lambeth London Borough Council
• Lewisham London Borough Council
• London Assembly
  Elected body that examines the policies, decisions and budget of the Mayor of London, with authority to require amendments in some areas.
• London Society of West India Planters and Merchants
• Merton London Borough Council
• Museum of London
• Museum of London Docklands
• Museum of the Home (formerly known as the Geffrye Museum)
• National Maritime Museum
• National Portrait Gallery
• Natural History Museum
• Newham London Borough Council
• Redbridge London Borough Council
• Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council
• Royal African Company
  English trading company, established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants, which was the single largest institution trading in enslaved people from Africa to the Americas during the history of the transatlantic slave-trade. Between 1672 and the early 1720s, the Royal African Company transported nearly 150,000 enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
• Royal Geographical Society
• Save Our Statues
  Right-wing pressure group, formed in 2020 and dissolved in 2022, which campaigned against the removal of colonial statues across the UK. The pressure group was based out of 55 Tufton Street (a notable hub for libertarian lobby groups) and was led by former UKIP politician Peter Whittle and Conservative councillor Richard Bingley. Save Our Statues ran a number of change.org petitions against the removal of statues during this period, some of which have been referenced.
• South Sea Company
  British joint-stock company in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. First founded in 1711, the company received the Asiento de Negros (a monopoly contract from the Spanish Crown) in 1713 to supply enslaved Africans to Spain's colonies in the Americas. Estimates of the number of enslaved people transported by the South Sea Company run to over 34,000, with an estimated 4,000 dying during the course of the Middle Passage. In 1720, the Company's finances dramatically collapsed in what came to be known as the South Sea Bubble.
• Southwark London Borough Council
• Sutton London Borough Council
• The British Museum
• The Church of England
• Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
• University College London (UCL)