The Barrow Cadbury Trust, Quakers and the Assisted Dying Bill
Exploring the connections
In this article, I wanted to introduce readers to The Barrow Cadbury Trust - which regularly comes up when I am researching left-wing funding networks.
The Trust has enormous amounts of money at its disposal. Indeed, from 2012 to October last year it handed out over £43 million in grants, according to 360 Giving Data:
The Barrow Cadbury Trust was founded by two Quakers, Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury - the former being the grandson of John Cadbury, founder of the Cadbury chocolate business (hence why the Trust has such wealth).
Its preoccupations reflect those of Quakers more generally, one of the most left-wing cohorts of Western society. Just take a look at these images below from British Quakers’ Instagram feed, which could have been posted by a Momentum activist:
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