Jac o' the North Profile picture
Unreconstructed Nationalist
Feb 27 7 tweets 3 min read
Someone sent me this response to a FoI request about @WelshGovernment funding for charities and third sector bodies

I flicked though it and a few things caught my eye, but I'll just focus on one. (Though a fuller account, a blog piece, may follow.) 🧵
gov.wales/atisn24360 I'm referring to £19,920,937.65 paid in 2024 to @EnergySvgTrust

Registered with Companies House
…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/026223…

The EST directors are resident in England, and Scotland through the link with everwarmgroup.com/contact-us

Control of EST exercised by
linkedin.com/in/mike-thornt…
Jan 18 5 tweets 2 min read
Here's a news item from last July

Even in the squalid scam that is wind turbines, Hendy stands out; paid lots of money - but it never operated 🧵
countytimes.co.uk/news/24452987.… The following month there were changes in the directors at Hendy Wind Farm Ltd. Those representing @landsec_uandi left, to be replaced by Steven John Radford, a familiar face
…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/076386…
Oct 15, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
@Bute_Energy is planning 16 wind farms in Wales.

First, they recruited David Taylor, former Spad to Carwyn Jones, Leighton Andrews, and all-round @WelshLabour insider, who is now enriching himself through his Moblake companies.

(@lesley4wrexham will decide on the wind farms.) Image Next, Bute Energy set up a Welsh Advisory Board, headed by former Labour MEP Derek Vaughan. Image