I'm concerned by the number of British charities/ otherwise funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation. PHF is a foundation that supports open borders. I have found two examples of it funding charities that advised the Government. One is HOPE not hate (advised the Home Office).
PHF has given hundreds of thousands to organisations whose raison d’être is magnifying racial differences and splitting society up by ethnicity. This is always presented as caring/social justice, but it's counterproductive to social cohesion and diversity.
It also has a "Migration Fund", which HOPE not hate has received three times (worth hundreds of thousands of pounds).
charlottecgill.co.uk/p/who-funds-yo…
The fund is about promoting open borders:
phf.org.uk/our-work-in-th…
You can see all of what PHF has funded since 2006 here (3300 grants in the UK): phf.org.uk/grants/
In 2020/21, PHF awarded £60,000 over 24 months to a student network wanting to "remove the social licence of companies running the UK’s immigration detention facilities."
In other words, PHF was allowed to fund a group trying to undermine British interests.
It also gave the Public Interest Law Centre (Camden Community Law Centre) £20,000 over 3 months, which helps with "asylum and immigration law matters".
Is it okay for trusts no one's heard of to be funding the opposite of government policy?
£30,026 over 12 months
"TO DEVELOP A CAMPAIGN STRATEGY TO END AUTOMATIC DEPORTATION"
£210,000 over 36 months (2023/24):
"building the capacity of local people with lived experience of the immigration system to advocate for themselves, strengthening the voice and influence of CEE migrants on local, regional and national policy."
£83,500 over 36 months
"will enable them to collect evidence for their policy advocacy and influencing work towards ending detention"
£150,00k over 36 months
"Asylum Matters works in partnership locally and nationally to improve the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum through social and political change"
£166,000 over 36 months
"climate justice, Gaelic and Scottish colonial history in a safe and supported way."
Anyway, it's all here. Genuinely will take me ages to go through all of them:
phf.org.uk/grants/?select…
Also just to say that there are other trusts on my list. Actually, a LOT. They present a serious problem for democracy. We have unelected/ unaccountable rich foundations - sometimes even partly funded by the public - pouring money into groups lobbying against the Government. Sigh
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