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:
Quakers take their duty to humanity very seriously, which is, of course, not an issue per se – but translates to the Barrow Cadbury Trust and other foundations splurging huge amounts on open-border organisations, such as Asylum Matters (a picture from its website below). You’d forget that Brits were being charged billions per year for migrant hotels, among other types of support for new arrivals, with so much Quaker funding making it easier for the world to move here.
Other groups receiving grants from the Barrow Cadbury Trust include Action for Race Equality (£428,750), Migrant Voice (£387,6000) and the Roma Support Group (£311,100), as well as the ghastly HOPE Not Hate Charitable Trust (£226,500):
The Barrow Cadbury Trust is author of Jami’an: Supporting families separated by prison, a publication that claims to be “grounded in Islam’s approach to justice” and bemoans the overrepresentation of Muslims in prison as if this is the result of some gross prejudice rather than quite troubling:
This resource has been created at a time when Muslims make up 18% of the prison population (as opposed to 6.5% of the general population) – a record high. This means that more and more families have loved ones in prison.
The trust says its “vision is of a just and peaceful society which recognises the equal value of all people”. Some of its goals include “putting diversity, equity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do” and “promoting sustainable development and addressing climate change”. Voters may not agree with the trust’s (or Quakers’) politics, but because of its large funds, they seep into our democracy anyway.
Moreover, there is even a Cadbury in Parliament: Ruth Cadbury, the Labour MP for Brentford and Isleworth since 2015, who is a Quaker and Humanist:
Before becoming an MP, Cadbury was a Director of the Barrow Cadbury Trust (for nine years)…
… and Barrow Cadbury Fund (22 years):
Her Parliamentary achievements include flying to the US to help promote Kamala Harris in last year’s US election…
…and she’s a sponsor of the Assisted Dying Bill (which Humanists support).
Cadbury sits on the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Choice at the End of Life…
…which is sponsored by Secretariat Dignity in Dying…
… and Dignity in Dying, in turn, leads back to the Barrow Cadbury Trust.
Below you will see its Chief Executive, Sarah Wootton:
Wootton is trustee of the Sheila McKechnie Foundation, which is funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust among others:
Moreover, the Canary did an excellent investigation (I can’t believe I’m praising this publication either) into how the GW Cadbury Trust handed £43,158 to Dignity in Dying’s sister charity Compassion in Dying, which Wootton was also CEO of:
In short, Cadburys and Quakers are having a lot of influence in our democracy – in ways I’m not sure British voters are going to be delighted with.
To top it all off? Taxpayers have been charged for the Barrow Cadbury Trust too…
Conservative ‘austerity’, eh…
Charlotte Gill regularly publishes about the use of taxpayers’ money to fund Left-wing causes and Left-wing researchers in Woke Waste, her Substack. You can subscribe here.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
Brilliant research again, Charlotte Gill. It makes me so angry and sick that we are being forced to pay for policies against our own best interests. And why is our warped government giving over a million in grants to such as Cadbury’s? They’re rich enough to start with. Why is some deluded, rich, old woman even allowed to go cap in hand begging the tax payer for more money to support her pet ideological projects. The govt gives around 50 billion away in tax payers’ hard-earned money, each year, to largely unvetted groups with little to no oversight as to where this money is going, from what I have read.
Another example of why we need Charlotte’s DOGE UK to highlight the government fraud against the taxpayers.
Excellent work,the Cadbury’s another bunch of entitled trust fund kids who believe it is their birthright to tell the rest of us what to think. do how to behave. There comes a point I think when tax payers who don’t agree with this misuse of our money to just stop paying. I am sure the Cadbury’s can well survive from their migrant supporters.
Governments will not change tack until the public stop funding them.
They cannot jail us all.
If immigrants are so in need, why can’t these trusts reimburse the government for the cost of putting them in hotels?
Militarism causes climate breakdown!
Insofar perfectly random mumbo-jumbo of current and seriously dated¹ trigger words go, that’s certainly a record breaker.
¹ The term originally referred to the ultimately futile attempts of the German empire to maintain a standing army that was large enough that the country would stand a chance to survive the upcoming Franco-Russian revanche war against it intact. But Germany always lagged behind France wrt militarization of its peacetime society because of “costs”.
I would be interested to know what the tax status of the trust is. As they are a political organisation I think they should be subject to tax.
The trust is a charity (number 1115476)
I’m confused. I thought Quakers were Protestant Christians and humanists were atheists (like Mr Dawkins),
Yet Ms Cadbury is a quaker and also humanist.
Still, as someone put it very aptly, the final stage of Protestantism is atheism. So maybe there is no contradiction.
If you consider yourself to be a member of The Great and Good then you must find occupation that suits you. The kicker is that other members of The Great and Good will assist you.
But networks of patronage can be easily subverted I’ve heard.
Thank you, Charlotte Gill, for drawing attention to this gilded brigade of the Enemy Within – Marxists masquerading in Quaker pointed-hats.
If descendents of the filthy rich choose to assuage wealth-guilt through good works, that’s their prerogative. Not their prerogative to engage in wealth-guilt politics, that take a slice of the income, taxes, savings and cost of living of lesser erks like me, born not to silver cutlery but in a terraced house.
Gilded twerps who get their kicks out of Telling Other People What To Do – the engineers, plumbers, electricians, builders, materials scientists, software experts, etc, etc, etc, who are the real guardians of modern civilisation.
Just a reminder the Aristocracy went out of fashion a century ago. Get Lost.
The Aristocracy have been replaced by the Technocracy, who are very much in charge.
They are eugenicists hiding in plain sight.
Not down this country lane, they ain’t. Drawbridge, boiling oil and chainsaw at the ready.
Climate breakdown?
What does that even mean?
How does the climate breakdown?
The only breakdown I see is the breakdown in the cognitive faculties of people who write bullshit like “climate breakdown” and think it has meaning and worse still, look out the window and see the climate “breaking down”
Effing clowns.
“Climate Breakdown”——Isn’t that a Rap Record? ——-“Mutha Fukka Y’all give me your dollars to fight da storms in the hood”
I don’t think the people who invent these terms believe that they make any sense and I’m not really convinced that any of the people these terms get thrown at really believe the mean something beyond This is what we must repeat to avoid being labelled climate denier and suffer all kind of negative real-world consequences of that. That’s part of the official propaganda of the system and in the interest of having a quiet life, it’s highly advisable to pay lip services to it whenever being asked too, absolutely classic How to cope with totalitarianism-strategy.
“How does the climate breakdown?”
Down trodden, that’s what it is, by the Carbon (Dioxide) footprint.
No wonder 80% of our incomes vanish into the black hole of government debt and spending on total crap.
Nothing new here. They are one of the original antisemites of modern era:”Quaker leaders often equated Jews’ “chosen people” concept with the Nazi theory of an Aryan master race”.
Better said by Geoffrey Alderman: How Quakers turned spiteful
Infiltration can often happen by default when an inherent weakness in a system has no self-correcting mechanism. For example usury, comppund interest, Monopoly – someone may have no interest in the theological underpinnings of Islam (most religious people have no interest whasoever) but they might like the idea of Islsmic banking or Zakat. This teaches me that Islam has not been a seriously proseletyzing force in the last few decades because they could’ve won many converts by talking about Islamic banking.
Thank you for this illuminating article. I always had great respect for Quakers but this has really opened my eyes.
God obviously works in mysterious ways but I doubt these political ventures are spreading the word of God or Christian values. Much like Justin Welby led the CoE away from Christian ideals and towards political activism, turning away many believers in the process, these progressive political Quakers would appear to be destroying their founding principles and beliefs.
It’s no wonder we have become an increasingly secular society that has largely abandoned the Christian faith leaving a massive vacuum.