National Lottery funding is dished out to African dance troupes, prisoners’ painting classes and equipment for Peruvian guinea pig farmers — but not a single penny is available for any organisation which pledges to promote and protect English culture.
This shocking fact has emerged after South Wales British National Party superactivist Roger Philips asked the National Lottery Commission under a Freedom of Information (FOI) request about grants made to “good causes.”
The commission was “unable to assist” Mr Phillips, but they did provide a web link to the lottery grants database, which records all payments made since 1995 — and reveals some peculiar Labour government pet projects as the recipients of funding.
A search established that 153 grants amounting to £7,366,692 have been made to Muslim organisations, in comparison with 106 grants worth £3,366,924 made to Christian organisations, amounting to less than half of the total donated to Islamic causes.
There have been 2365 grants awarded to organisations which promote multicultural ideology, amounting to £184,278,549.
Schemes operating out of the heavily Islamified and Labour-controlled Tower Hamlets — with its 15,000 council staff and £1.1 billion budget — have received £207,563,446 in lottery grants since 1995.
The more unusual grants include:
£6,035,976 granted to the Black Photographers’ Association in 2002.
£5,078,472 granted to the British Refugee Council in 2007.
£2,000,000 granted to Pathe Productions for their Bollywood project in 2003.
£1,011,104 granted to Health Unlimited for a radio service broadcasting “in the vicinity of the African Great Lakes.”
£7,040,000 (2003) and £5,050,000 (2000) granted to ‘Rich Mix’ Cultural Foundation “for the promotion of ethnic minorities’ impact on the London economy and culture.” (The BNP website offers this service free of charge.)
The commission was keen to stress that they do not distribute the funds directly; responsibility is delegated to outside bodies who are selected by parliament, including arts, sports and films councils, and the Big Lottery Fund: the body responsible for distributing 670 million a year, of which 70 million goes to international projects.
The Big Lottery Fund receives around 14p of every pound paid into the lottery.
It has been heavily criticised in the past, once being compared to a Stealth Tax because the grants from this fund contribute towards projects that are usually, or should be, state-funded.
Labour ministers have been accused of using lottery funding to meet ministerial targets, or to meet Labour’s culturally Marxist ‘social objectives’.
The only indigenous English species the funding bodies seem concerned with are water invertebrates and plants.
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