Trigger warning *not everyone will want to look at this ahead of the Budget.
But a list of things taxpayers have been charged on - which you can refer to when Rachel Reeves/ Labour/ whoever says there was "austerity" or they had to make tough economic choices.
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1) £841,830
The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
2) £136,909
Perverse Collections: Building Europe's Queer and Trans Archives
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
3) £805,769
Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India (DiMuse)
4) £185,627
Trans Performance Now: Glitching cisgenderism
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
5) £805,745
Diverse alarums: centering marginalised communities in the contemporary performance of early modern plays gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
6) £23,556
Trans Archiving Network (TAN)
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
7) £205,543
(De)colonial Ecologies in 21st-century insular Hispanic Caribbean film
8) £35,285
Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions
9) £759,293
Comics and Race in Latin America
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
10) £81,635
Listening to the 85%: exploring how recording and listening to underwater sounds can increase environmental awareness on Isle of Man.
11) £24,292
Sports media and identity: a theory-practice network
12) £123,470
Decolonizing South East Asian Sound Archives
13) £786,083
Everything Is Connected: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of the Internet
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
14) £29,956
MAUSI Net. Menopause Artivism in UK, Sweden and India
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
15) £452,623
Screen Encounters with Britain: What do young Europeans make of Britain and its digital screen culture?
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
16) £200,462
Decolonising the Page: The Visual Politics and Poetics of Postcolonial Arabic Publications
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
17) £310,724
The Tipuna Project: Intergenerational Healing, Settler Accountability and Decolonising Participatory Action Research in Aotearoa
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
18) £802,442
Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the present
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
19) £1,183,769
The Cultural Legacies of the British Empire: Classical Music's Colonial History (1750-1900)
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=M…
20) £84,098
South African Modernism (Follow-on-Funding): Decolonising English Literary Studies In and Beyond the Classroom
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
21) £307,021
The Future of Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities: Ancestral governance, environmental stewardship, language revival, and cultural vibrancy.
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
22) £814,847
Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: Tracing Divergent Healing Practices Across the Mongolian-Chinese Border
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
23) £1,056,814
The Abundance Project: Enhancing Cultural & Green Inclusion in Social Prescribing in Southwest London to Address Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
24) £847,202
Communication and Creativity: An Arts-Based Study Focusing on Marginalised East African Communities in Kenya, Uganda and the United Kingdom
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
25) £2,064,125
Centre for Cultural Value
culturalvalue.org.uk
26) £839,632
Colonial Reels: Histories and Afterlives of Colonial Film Collections
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
27) £761,286
The Colour of Diversity: A Longitudinal Analysis of BFI Diversity Standards Data and Racial Inequality in the UK Film Industry
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
28) £720,390
Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality Before Liberation
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
29) £311,002
Indigenous Film Ecologies in India
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
30) £263,427
Romani Migration between Germany and Britain (1880s-1914): Spaces of Informal Business, Media Spectacle, and Racial Policing
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
31) £242,596
Global Leadership of Women in Web 3 (GLoW3) (2020-2024)
"GLoW3 seeks to interrogate, understand and foreground women, non-binary and trans (W, NB and T) contributions to the conceptualisation, commercialisation..." gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
32) £2,947,162
Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage
UAL Decolonising Arts Institute
arts.ac.uk/ual-decolonisi…
33) £1,505,777.39
The Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in London: a mixed-methods study of benefits, harms, and experiences
fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR1350…
34) £201,013
The Environmental Impact of Filmmaking: Using Star Wars to Improve Sector Sustainability Practices
35) £120,766
Cuteness In Contemporary Environmental Culture: Developing Ecopoetic Practice
36) £34,611
In Our Own Words: Documenting Everyday Lives of Queer People in Central Asia
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
37) £1,989,742
Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
38) £314,712
Nasawe'sx ya'yu'cenxi (Weaving Our Own Justice): Justice and Authority in the Nasa Communities of the Sa'th Tama Kiwe Territory, Caldono, Colombia.
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
39) £269,716
Solid Water, Frozen Time, Future Justice: Photography and Mining in the Andean Glaciers
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
40) £295,165
Komon Sajb'ichil for Ixil Cartographies during the Cold War: Knowledge Exchange for Intergenerational Justice
gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=A…
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