Last week I showed Daily Sceptic readers the enormous amounts of taxpayer funding going towards migrant charities. Today I am continuing that theme, showing a selection of five charities that have received over £47 million between them over the last five years. I have recently logged 40 charities spending on my Substack, and found the total comes to £346 million, so goodness knows what the figure would be if a whole team was auditing!
Without further ado, today’s examples:
Asylum Aid (£837,000, 2020-2024)
Asylum Aid provides “legal advice and representation on behalf of asylum seekers and refugees”, and is now part of the Helen Bamber Foundation Group (which received £881,170 in taxpayer funding between 2020-24). Last year the charity spoke out against “far-Right attacks outside asylum hotels and threats of more organised violence across the country”. It added that: “The horrific and recurring attacks are a direct outcome of the constant vilification and scapegoating of people seeking asylum in our politics and the media.”
Breaking Barriers (£3,037,800, 2020-24)
Breaking Barriers is “a specialist refugee employment charity" that enables "refugees to build new lives”. It has its own “Lived Experience Panel”, “a group of consultants from a lived experience background” (meaning “those who are seeking asylum with the right to work, refugees and those who have experienced Breaking Barriers support”).
Bristol Refugee Rights (£510,260, 2020-24)
The charity runs “services for asylum seekers and new refugees to get the help they need”,
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Add all this wasted money up and you can scrap the interitance raid on family firms and farmers.
I wonder how often such charities are audited by the Charities Commission or HMRC. Payroll audits would be in order too.
What do the Tories have to say about this. Do they say “no one asked us”, “no one told us”, “ it all started under Starmer”,”we can’t hear you”.
What genuine charities do should not be a matter for governments beyond checking the rules are followed. No subsidies, no funding, no payments for services and no special access to Whitehall.
You can’t do anything about the Government transferring your money to these “charities” but you don’t have to voluntarily feed the beast.
So don’t buy a Lottery Ticket. Don’t buy scratch cards. Don’t do the Postcode Lottery. Don’t give money to Comic Relief, Sports Aid, Children in Need or any other of the Establishment-approved “charity fundraisers.”
If you want to support a charity, make it a local one where the volunteers are not paid £six figure salaries to launder your money abroad or into the “refugee” scam.
And if you do donate to a charity, do some research into what sort of people they employ, what they actually do, and what they are paid.
This is in part only possible because a) there is a whole class of people grifting off various benefits and b) spending by government is so vast and so diffused .
This can and must be solved by eliminating benefits as a lifestyle choice.
The second simply requires a government machine with some respect for taxpayers and their money, that’s not been seen since 1997.
Simple starting point would be a law stating that any charity in receipt of state funding is automatically no longer a charity and and tax privileges would be lost, retrospective for 5 years. For example.
Hats off to Charlotte Gill for her work on this.
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