What’s US billionaire George Soros funding in the UK? This week a US analyst titled 'DataRepublican' (on X) released a spreadsheet of grants from Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF) spelling it all out.
Although individual grants can be found on the OSF grant-finder, it’s the first time everything has been laid out in the same place – providing a fascinating trawl.
Without further ado, here are some examples for Daily Sceptic readers:
Ashden Climate Solutions – $200,000, 2022
Most people will have never heard of Ashden Climate Solutions, but UK taxpayers were charged £1,044,290 from 2019-23, rolled in with its funding from Soros and others. Ashden, a registered charity, runs a climate campaign for schools titled 'Let’s Go Zero' and has been endorsed by Green MP Carla Denyer and Labour’s Nadia Whittome. Its other funders include IKEA and BloombergNEF, which also fund C40 Cities along with Soros (Left-wing and green funding networks tend to have a lot of crossover).
Athena Foundation Ltd – $635,775, 2022
The Athena Foundation describes itself as “a non-profit organisation with a vision of a UK financial sector which properly supports society and the planet”, and claims to be a “respected interface between industry, civil society and Parliament”. Accordingly, it provides secretariat services to three All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) on:
The APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax partners with Patriotic Millionaires and Tax Justice UK, which have been lobbying hard
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Regarding Ashden Climate Solutions, isn’t political activism, i.e. running a climate campaign, in schools illegal?? Or is it because it’s ‘climate’, so the favoured political rhetoric of most political parties, it’s somehow permissable. Why aren’t head teachers up in arms about this activism, or are they also too sunk into the green mire?
UCL and Imperial College seem to attract funds from Soros and Gates?
You mean the Imperial; ‘our very accurate (not) models say we’re all going to die from covid’ College?
Well done, Charlotte.
Climate, the EU, and Immigrants. Quite a Venn Diagram.
what do they all have in common? They are all vehicles by which our sovereignty is imperilled, undermined, and removed.
How many on here have genuinely benefited from the interventions of a charidee?
As you say above, just small, local ones
Sir, you jest!
That’s an awful lot of people employed in totally unproductive, utterly useless, nation destroying non-jobs.
Why are taxpayers paying “charities”? By definition these are not receiving voluntary donations and must considered wings of the state.
The theory is that some charities provide goods and services more cost effectively than would be done by the govt, not a difficult hurdle. Problem is that the govt does not fund the charities that it should, such as the RNLI (some may disagree) and Air Ambulances, at the same time as funding charities that it shouldn’t.
Largely irrelevant. All but small, local charidees are nothing more than grotesque money-laundering operations. They are of no or little benefit to society, well apart from keeping a few people off the streets, and serve no genuine purposes.
Charidees are a Scamdemic industry.
Why do these organisations require funding from anyone? Can’t people just pay for their services when they need them, or subscribe to them, or buy insurance? Should the government fund the AA and the RAC?
RNLI certainly, when of course they stop aiding and abetting illegal people traffickers.
Do I remember correctly the uproar when it was suggested that the foreigner Elon Musk was offering money to Reform? Seems all funders are equal but some funders are more equal than others.
Yet I reckon if you asked lefties about rich people and big business and their influence on politics they would quote you Trump, Musk and Big Oil. As far as I can see, most of the influencing these days is in favour of the political left. Politicians and media outlets on the political right should be getting this information out there every time they get the chance.
Taking hypocrisy to a whole new level…
Money laundering, corruption, fraud…..flowing through ‘charities’ based on ‘science’ (fiction).
Thank you for that rogues gallery of Enemy Within.
“A greener and more prosperous society” – another luxury believers’ oxymoron.
Green is the new brown.
Green is the old red.
And if spreadsheets are your thing, somebody’s been a very busy beaver here and done some impressive work. You’ll need a bit of time on your hands to sift through all of this;
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTfdxZDLIvNWx9XK61YK0-JyLWJJMsUvmADQn7eUQ1BSovT7e0oDxFzHDVxU1H8So2jMmoy3e2UXVFs/pubhtml
https://x.com/milsimrooster/status/1922263574480638188