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A further £5 million of public money will be paid to the #GardenBridge Trust to meet the failed charity's winding-up costs, including reimbursing some of the donors to the controversial Thames footbridge project.
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List of #GardenBridge donors to be repaid as at October 2018 
!!!!!!!!!!!! "Table tennis with Boris" - taxpayers will repay £3,200 to winner of #Gardenbridge auction as "prize not delivered" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roland Rudd advised his fellow #GardenBridge trustees not to draw attention to comparisons with Kids' Company
The #GardenBridge Trust spent £161,000 on its website.
Russian oligarch Petr Aven pledged £4 million for #GardenBridge
Michael Gross pledged £50,000 for a bench on the #GardenBridge.
Later he wrote "this is the most bogus and irresponsible shambles I have ever had the misfortune to get involved in".
Later he wrote "this is the most bogus and irresponsible shambles I have ever had the misfortune to get involved in".
Three donors who paid £17,000 each for "the #GardenBridge Experience" at fundraising auctions are entitled to taxpayer-backed refunds.
This is what the "experience" included:
This is what the "experience" included:
Winning bids at the #Gardenbridge auction at Harrods in 2015. Notable that several winning bidders were GBT trustees.
If a) the #gardenbridge had been built and b) ITV had kept its studios on the South Bank, this is how the studio audience for Loose Women would have had to share space with Garden Bridge construction traffic in the alleyway beside the IBM Building
