Woke Waste Road Map

A structure of how I see the flow of taxpayer funding (*a work in progress)

Amazingly, I made this without taxpayer funding

Hello my Fellow Awokens,

In the last week or so, as I post more content on X, I am starting to get very useful offers/ leads of people wanting to help the Woke Waste project. Thank you.

As a starting point, I thought I’d share a structure of how I see Woke Waste. This is very much a “work in progress”, not least because the wokery is endless. Also please excuse any typos; I have become a bit like Jake Gyllenhaal’s character in Zodiac (a film I wholly recommend) when he is trying to catch the murderer - apart from I am hunting for Wokies.

One challenge is that there’s lots of cross-pollination with Woke Waste. For instance, it would be much easier to show the flow of money if I had a series of umbrella organisations, money going from the top to the bottom, but the money flows all vertically, horizontally and I even found an accounting form where a foundation and Arts Council England were listed as separate funders, but then I found out the foundation was also funded by ACE.

One reader kindly directed me to the website My Little Crony as a suggestion of how WW could be structured - as it allows for a more complex representation, which would make it easier to see the “circular”/whatever you want to call it nature of things.

At the end of this Substack below you will see I’ve included trusts (in no way an extensive list - there are so many of them). I am including trusts/foundations if I think they are fuelling woke/ otherwise unhelpful for British society. For instance, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation funds a few companies that I find racially divisive:

Without further ado:

Below shows sources of funding (e.g. the Government) and how it flows into subsidiaries > more subsidiaries.

The Government:

• Department for Culture, Media & Sport

  • Arts Council England (ACE)

    • Arts Centres

      • Iniva

        • Staff profile - “focus on artistic practices from Global Majority”

      • Battersea Arts Centre

        • Trans artist’s search for a sperm donor given £64,000 of taxpayer cash

    • Theatres

      • Beyond Face

        • Devon’s first Global Majority theatre company

      • Marlborough

        • The "world's premier green, autistic drag queen" funded by Arts Council England

        • Trans artist’s search for a sperm donor given £64,000 of taxpayer cash

      • The Globe

        • Globe Theatre accused of ‘appeasing’ gender activists after staff inclusivity guidance leaked

      • The Roundhouse

        • Trans artist’s search for a sperm donor given £64,000 of taxpayer cash 

      • Soho Theatre

        • Soho Theatre tells white audience members to ‘check their privilege’

      • Tamasha Theatre

        • “emerging and established artists from the global majority”

      • The Southbank Centre:

        • Taxpayer-funded children's show with 'trans voices' branded tasteless

    • Publishing:

      • Peepal Tree Press

        • Arts Council accused of ‘cultural conformity’ in its funding of literary companies

      • Wasafiri

        • Arts Council accused of ‘cultural conformity’ in its funding of literary companies

  • The BBC (DCMS for overall oversight, but other Government departments linked to it)

    • BBC spends more than £600,000 a year on ‘diversity and inclusion’ staff

    • BBC accused of woke bias in its talent development projects

    • BBC accused of identity politics with £50k grant scheme aimed at ‘woke comedy’

  • The National Maritime Museum:

    • Admiral Nelson included in National Maritime Museum’s ‘Queer History Night’

  • Vercida (diversity recruiter)

    • Inclusive Job Board Provider and Strategic Diversity Partner

    • Napoleonic Wars labelled as part of ‘queer history’

    • How much is the Civil Service spending on diversity recruitment?

• UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

  • The BBC

• Department for Health and Social Care

  • The NHS:

    • Are you Demiboy, Genderfluid or Questioning? Patients asked to choose gender identity by NHS Trust

    • Nurse says not all people who give birth are women, on NHS-sponsored podcast

    • Dr Binta Sultan - “a Consultant Physician in Inclusion Health at HCLH, the first in the NHS”/We should have more gender categories, says NHS abuse services chief

  • National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR)

    • SWERV: Sex Workers Evaluate Reporting Violence/ Researchers investigating prostitution ‘worse than old-school pimps’

    • Dr Binta Sultan is an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow; “a Consultant Physician in Inclusion Health at HCLH, the first in the NHS”/We should have more gender categories, says NHS abuse services chief

• Department for International Trade

  • Vercida (diversity recruiter)

    • HR Subscription (Diversity Careers Website)

    • Career Diversity Platform to promote jobs

• Department of Levelling Up

  • Charities:

    • Protection Approaches

      • The Government's hate crime spending

• Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

  • UK Research and Innovation

    • Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

      • Techne/ AHRC doctoral scholarship programme

        • The students strike back

        • Porcelain used as ‘critique of white supremacy’ in taxpayer-funded study

        • Taxpayer funds Phd in ‘how gardens can cultivate queer anti-racist communities’

      • Reach Consortium (Royal Museums Greenwich, National Portrait Gallery, Historic Royal Palaces, British Film Institute, National Trust)

      • The London Arts and Humanities Partnership

      • The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities

        • Ridicule over university’s ‘trans archeology’ course

    • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

      • Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership

        • How the taxpayer funds research into "women's experiences of climbing" and "ecocide"

    • Future Leader Fellowship Programme 

      • Research on ‘decolonising gender-based violence’ has cost taxpayers £1 million

    • Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)

      • GCRF Awarded Projects

    • The Science and Technology Facilities Council

• Department for Work and Pensions

  • Vercida (diversity recruiter)

    • Vercida Proposal 23_24

    • Online Diverse Jobs Board 22-23

    • Online Diverse Job Boards for DWP Staff to uterlise

    • Napoleonic Wars labelled as part of ‘queer history’

    • How much is the Civil Service spending on diversity recruitment?

• Home Office

  • Charities

    • HOPE not hate

• Ministry of Defence

  • Vercida (diversity recruiter)

    • Contract Award Notice Vercida Annual Membership 2024

    • DNO/268 - Vercida Membership 2023

• Local government

  • Birmingham City Council

    • ‘Bankrupt’ Birmingham held seminars declaring ‘we can’t survive without eating’

  • Islington Council

    • Charities

      • Labour councils spend hundreds of thousands of pounds in grants on LGTBQ+ paddleboards and cooking/ Islington and Camden Council's woke splurge on "Rainbow" kayaking

  • Camden Council

    • Charities

      • Labour councils spend hundreds of thousands of pounds in grants on LGTBQ+ paddleboards and cooking/ Islington and Camden Council's woke splurge on "Rainbow" kayaking

  • Colchester City Council

    • Charities:

      • The Outhouse

        • Teachers trained to tell children about hormone blockers

  • The Mayor of London

    • Charities:

      • Protection Approaches

        • The Government's hate crime spending

*Non-taxpayer-funded, but contributing to ideological capture in my opinion:

• National Lottery Project Grant

  • Trans artist’s search for a sperm donor given £64,000 of taxpayer cash (via National Lottery Project Grant)

• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

  • The BBC

  • Gates Cambridge Scholarships

    • Scholar 1 in “Decolonial economics”

    • Scholar 2 in “Multidisciplinary decolonial feminism”

• Paul Hamlyn Foundation

  • Migration Fund

    • Hope Not Hate

      • 2022-23 - https://www.phf.org.uk/grants/?select-region_country%5B%5D=uk&hidden-sele=&hidden-s=hope+not+hate

      • 2019-20 - https://www.phf.org.uk/grants/?select-region_country%5B%5D=uk&hidden-sele=&hidden-s=hope+not+hate

      • 2019-20 - https://www.phf.org.uk/grants/?select-region_country%5B%5D=uk&hidden-sele=&hidden-s=hope+not+hate

  • Backbone Fund:

    • Black Equity Organisation - £250,000 over 60 months

      • strives for "Black greatness"

  • Arts Fund:

    • Beyond Face - £166,000 over 36 months

      • Devon’s first Global Majority theatre company

  • Other Grants:

    • Actors Touring Company - £5,700.00 over 6 months

      • "safe space for Black audiences to view the play together in one night".

• The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

  • The Decolonial Centre

• The Carmack Collective

  • The Decolonial Centre

•  Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust

  • The Decolonial Centre

• Pluto Education Trust

  • The Decolonial Centre