"Who funds you?"๐ณ๐๏ธ Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Looking at the charity funding "Anti Racist Cumbria" and promoting open borders
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Today I will introduce you to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF), in case you have not heard of it.
I first stumbled on PHF when I was researching who funds HOPE not Hate (HNH).
HNH has received a total of ยฃ585,000 from PHF, thrice being awarded its โMigration Fundโ, according to PHFโs website.
Hereโs a bit of info about that specific fund, which essentially advocates open borders:
What is the PHF?
PHF is a charity (description below) based in London:
It has a lot of capital:
Hereโs its report for the end of year 2023, where it elaborates on how it spends this:
With that being said, from 2020-23 PHF has also been given just under ยฃ1.4 million in government grants:
Given its wealth, you have to wonder how this is justified.
And crucially, will taxpayers be happy knowing a trust theyโve funded also funds HOPE not Hate?
(Rhetoricalโฆ)
Hereโs The Telegraphโs write up on PHF last year:
โThe Government is funding a pro-migration advocacy group that believes UK borders are โsystemically racistโ, The Telegraph can disclose.
โCharity Commission accounts show that the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF), a Left-wing charity, received ยฃ1.36 million in government grants since 2020.โ
The significance of foundations/trusts
PHF is the first Foundation/ Trust I am delving into in WW, although I have been researching them for a while.
Funders play a huge role in our political system, regularly perpetuating woke ideology via the bodies they support.
The main way they do this is by giving registered charities large amounts of money, to pursue their own (often woke) agendas.
*To add, trusts/ foundations are often registered as charities too - as is the case with PHF.
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
To give an example, this week on a Channel 4 General Election debate, a lawyer (below) from The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) said she โcould dismantle allโ of the candidatesโ immigration policies.
It wasnโt hard to work out her leanings; someone who thinks that any kind of asylum deterrent/ controls on immigration are cruel; who will never suggest an end number for the amount of people the UK can reasonably accommodate; or acknowledge that for every vulnerable asylum seeker there are those who are exploiting the system and/ or dangerous.
Donโt just take my word for it. You get an idea of the JCWIโs worldview from its Instagram page, which I screenshot in this article. Its social media content makes clear its contempt for the Conservative government, especially former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, and its pride in having blocked a flight to Rwanda:
โSUCCESS! All of our clients who were facing removal to Rwanda have now been released thanks to the tremendous work of our legal teamโ
Charities can only be effective politically when they have funders, which pay for lawyers and other professionals to challenge government policies.
This brings us back to PHF, which has given hundreds of thousands to JCWI:
It has given money to other charities along the same lines, such as the African Rainbow Family - which focuses on โending deportationโ, albeit for LGBTIQ people - who are some of the most vulnerable coming through the asylum system.
Even so, the point remains that these charities are acting as a de facto opposition to the Government - and therefore undermining the way democracy is meant to work. Most voters donโt even know of their existence, never mind that some are acting against their wishes.
Another of JCWIโs funders is the Esmรฉe Fairbairn Foundation, which has a whole page dedicated to โMigrant Justiceโ.
Itโs not unusual to see the Esmรฉe Fairbairn Foundation and PHF together on funding pages, forming part of what I call the โimmigration lobbyโ.
Below is a page from โthe 3 millionโ, a โgrassroots organisation for EU citizens* in the UK, formed after the 2016 referendum to protect the rights of people who have made the UK their home.โ
Here you can see PHF and the Esmรฉe Fairbairn Foundation are listed as funders (as well as others I will write about in due course).
the 3 million maintains โEverything we do is about people, not politicsโ.
Looking at the picture above, thatโs not obvious.
But back to PHFโฆ
PHF does support worthy causes, I should add, before I move onto the next bit of this article. For instance, it has given ยฃ250,000 to the charity Access All Areas, which supports disabled and autistic artists in, and trying to break into, the TV, film, and theatre industry. These sorts of initiatives are very important. In general, I find that disabled people are routinely omitted from the โdiverseโ public sector - even being discriminated against in the case of Sadiq Khan and Will Normanโs floating bus stops - showing how phoney the Woke movement is in paying lip service to โinclusionโ.
Leaving that aside, PHF funds projects that are much harder to justify - many of which are racially-divisive. Take a look at these examples below, next to the amount PHF gave them:
Anti Racist Cumbria - ยฃ150,000 over 36ย months
Cumbria is Englandโs third largest county with a predominantly white and ageing population, but every district is growing more diverse at a faster rate than the rest of the nation, with increasing numbers of Black and Brown people moving to the area, and some hotels in these locations housing people who are seeking asylum. These factors highlight challenges for the county, with certain communities becoming increasingly suspicious of immigration and divisive narratives takingย hold.
Systemic Justice - ยฃ250,000
Driven by white, middle-class archetypes of what it means to be the โrightโ kind of activist, the mainstream climate movement has prioritised fast, visible, solutions-based action as the ultimate weapon against the unfolding climate crisis. Yet, this approach is dangerously close to replicating the harms caused by the very systems of domination responsible for this crisis. Furthermore, it often overlooks, excludes, and even goes so far as to exploit, the rich tapestry of experience, and generational knowledge and tradition held by racialised communities.โฏย
Kinfolk Network was established in 2017. At the time, Trump had just been elected and the Brexit referendum had rocked and divided the UK.
As a consequence, there was a felt need for accessible, well-resourced, restorative spaces for Black campaigners, grassroots organisers and activists - across the UK - to come together in community to rest, connect, strategise, heal and be held accountable.
Kinfolk Networkโs co-founders saw this as a crucially missing and necessary piece of infrastructure for the Black liberation movement.
A list of PHFโs Migration and Integration spending, including โHOPE not Hateโ:
Since 2006/07, PHF has given out 3,300 grants in the UK (and 394 in India) - so bear in mind that this piece is a relatively small sample of everything out there, which can be found on PHFโs grants database.
The issue we have - not just with PHF, but numerous other foundations who I will discuss on Woke Waste - is that they quietly disrupt democracy, injecting enormous amounts of funding into politically-active groups.
This presents a major problem for the UK, and why I feel the idea of voting has become so pointless (yes really). Democratic mandates mean nada when organisations with big funds can come along and make the opposite happen, all without the public realising.
In due course, my Woke Waste will be highlighting much more such examples.
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As someone who believes pretty absolutely in the right of each and everyone one of us, however rich or poor, to use our money however we wish I find it difficult to object to the rich using their money to advocate for causes in which they believe any more than I object to them owning vast yachts, which is not at all.
So much as I deplore the use to which the fortune of the late Paul Hamlyn is applied I canโt object in principle any more than I object (not at all) to those who direct their wealth towards the IEA, my idea of a worthy cause.
The big issues which your piece highlights which should exercise us all are the definition of a charity, whether a charity should ever be permitted to engage in political lobbying and whether charities should enjoy any special tax status under the law.
On the face of it charitable status is being grotesquely abused. There are simply far too many charities whose objectives would meet a narrow definition of charity which almost everyone could agree upon (eg the relief of poverty or the impact of natural disasters) as opposed to being middle class hobbies (eg beekeeping - disclosure I am a trustee of one such and believe it shouldnโt be a charity) or naked political campaigning.
The other insidious aspect of the vast network of interconnected, and often sock puppet, charities is their use as fronts by government to which taxpayer money can be directed to lobby the government to implement proposals that the government wants to implement anyway but would prefer the cloak of some apparently independent and worthy charity to hide in. All the stuff that Chris Snowdon valiantly exposes all the time.