"Who Funds You?"💳👁️ | HOPE not hate

As usual, the taxpayer is involved...

Congratulations to HOPE not hate, which claims it “stopped Susan Hall becoming the Mayor of London.”

Or should we be congratulating ourselves?

That’s because we, the taxpayer, have contributed a fair amount to HNH ourselves - just look at the Charity Commission website.

Here it turns out HNH is a charitable trust. A brief explanation from HNH’s website about the set up:

On the Charity Commission listing, if you click on “financial history” you can get a sense of how much HNH has received in government grants over the years. It adds up to £141,380 (2019-2020).

And here are some more detailed statements showing contributions from the Home Office.

For the year ended December 2021:

For the year ended December 2020:

For the year ended December 2019:

Clearly the Home Office leaned heavily on HNH - which “briefed multiple departments… on emerging trends in UK hate” and “presented a keynote at a Home Office conference on online hate in Derby.”

You can find other funders on HNH’s accounting forms.

For the year ended December 2022, these included Facebook UK Limited and Family Trust (Anon 1) and Family Trust (Anon 2).

One regular funder is the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Unlike Family Trust (Anon 1) and Family Trust (Anon 2), it’s quite easy to find some more info on the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

For instance, it has a “Migration Fund”, which envisions “a world in which everyone is free to move”:

HNH’s has been awarded the Foundation’s “Migration Fund” three times:

HNH has received a total of £585,000 from the Foundation (according to its website).

So there we are, the taxpayer under a “Conservative” government, is a joint-funder with a Foundation that supports open borders.

Sometimes I think our leaders may as well point a cannon at Britain and fire it.

But maybe that would be too cheap…