Last week the charity Refugee Action penned a letter to Number 10, calling for the Government to “scrap the cruel new asylum bill”.
On Instagram the charity posted footage of its representatives handing the letter over…
… as well protestors standing in Parliament Square holding placards reading things like “SAY IT LOUD AND SAY IT CLEAR. REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE” and “ASYLUM MEANS SAFETY”:
What’s extraordinary about this charity is that it received £16,765,000 via government contracts and government grants between 2021-25:
Grants have come from multiple councils across the UK, including the Greater London Authority (£196,000, 2025) and Birmingham County Council (£1,141,000, 2025), the latter of which isn’t exactly renowned for having lots of disposable funds!
Refugee Action has also received funding from The National Lottery Community Fund and Comic Relief.
Despite such handsome funding – Refugee Action’s total gross income for 2025 was £6.86 million – its staff act like revolutionaries against the Establishment (rather than as they are, very much part of it).
Unfortunately, this trend of taxpayer-funded entities lobbying or protesting against the Government is completely normal. Almost every time I look into a new asylum and migration charity, I find it has engaged in some sort of activism – usually protests and open letters, which it tends to show off on its website. The Charity Commission is actually very relaxed about activism as long as charities aren’t being party political.
One example I recently stumbled on was the Helen Bamber Foundation,
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The same old names crop up time and time again. National Lottery, Joseph Rowntree, Comic Relief, Cadbury et al.
I may be stating the obvious, but I expect that most people don’t mind supporting genuine refugees. I’m thinking back to the influx of Ugandan Asians, expelled by Idi Amin, who have contributed to this country by dint of their hard work. To class economic migrants as refugees is to miss the point intentionally.
I read only 1% are actual refugees. And we won’t be able to help anyone if we are bankrupt.
£16million to spend and they only managed to find 8,450 people to sign their welcome card, this is £1,893.50 per signature. Surely they could of found more people willing to sign in exchange for a large wadge of cash. Given that the government won’t take any notice of the petition I’d of signed it for £500.
It’s a wonder we have any money left in our bloody pockets !
Say it loud, say it clear, we don’t want those c@@nts living here.
How’s that for a slogan?
Governments both Conservative and Labour give money to charities lobbying for migration and at the same time pretend to be trying to stop it. The truth could not be more obvious.
Very true what I cannot get my head around is why?
Presumably because ministers don’t get to see or authorise these small payments so the permanent bureaucracy just does whatever it wants.
A complete overhaul is required.
We are talking about millions even billions. Big money. It’s very naive to assume that powers that be are not in charge of what is going on.
And they go about it in a labyrinthine way. Our money gets bounced about from govt, through different charity outfits until it reaches its actual destination. Our govt is complicit. Plausible deniability.
Here is an easy win for Reform. Scrap all 27,000 grants.
Or Restore.
What’s extraordinary about this charity is that it received £16,765,000 via government contracts and government grants between 2021-25
Let us remind ourselves who was in government for most of that time. Yet we are told by supposedly right leaning political commentators that we should vote Conservative or that Reform should join some kind of alliance with the Tories.
Well done for calling all this out! Keep doing it.
Small request
Change
“£196,000, 2025”
To
“£196,000 in the year 2025”
I got a bit confused, the space wasn’t enough for a while!
Same for the figures for Birmingham. I don’t imagine they have over a billion pounds to spend on anything, not even this “worthy cause”!
Keep shining a light on this Charlotte. Many thnaks.