Soros spent $370k on campaign to "save the NHS"
The funding was awarded to the New Economy Organisers Network
Today I will reveal how George Soros spent $373,524 on a campaign to “save the NHS”, via his Open Society Foundations (OSF).
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The grant was awarded to The New Economy Organisers Network (NEON), which provides media training to young people - so that they can plug progressive talking points.
Alumni include Dr Faiza Shaheen, Zoe Gardner, Grace Blakeley, Maya Goodfellow, and Labour MPs Dr Jeevun Sandher (who sits on the Executive Committee of the Fabian Society) and Miatta Fahnbulleh.
Soros has awarded $1,822,049 in total to NEON (note: the timing of grants is not necessarily the same as when alumni attended):
In 2018, the OSF awarded a $373,524 grant to NEON for “Building a patient-led social movement to save the NHS”, to cover a two-year period:
In 2019, the OSF awarded $100,000 “to support Just Treatment, a patient-led movement campaign focused on advancing access to medicines to expand its remit to include efforts to challenge the privatization of the National Health Service”:
And in 2021, the OSF also awarded $70,150 to NEON to “support the work of Nurses United, a powerful movement of nurses supporting greater education and awareness raising to advance health rights in the NHS”:
More generic “health” grants from the OSF to NEON include $415,375 “to support the grantee’s work on health” and $70,000 “to support the Grantee’s work on nurses organizing for health rights”. You can see all of OSF’s grants to NEON listed below:
NEON regularly produces scripts for activists, including ones on NHS Charging and the NHS Whitepaper 2021:
Its NHS Charging Messaging guide, published in July 2022, tells NEON spokespeople how to “make the case for free access to healthcare for all regardless of immigration status”, including what words to use…
… and how to respond to “common attacks”:
To discover more about NEON, follow these links:
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