David Cain (Cosmic) has been active on the London fetish for some years now and supports the Spanner Trust through the London Alternative Market and Just Rope parties. An advocate of the rights of consensual adults to engage in SM play and relationships free for fear of persecution he views dominance as a sexuality worthy of the same rights extended to all alternative sexualities.

John Lovatt is a solicitor who first supported the Countdown on Spanner Campaign in the early 1990s when the Spanner Men were prosecuted. He was horrified at men being sent to prison and having their lives wrecked just for having SM sex with each other.After he was invited to attend a Meeting of the Board of Trustees in July 2000 to give legal advice specifically about the Crown Prosecution Guidelines he was invited to become a Trustee.