Updated 18/02/2021 08:21 GMT
Revealed: Who Will Get First Black Lives Matter UK Grants After £1m Fundraiser
Exclusive: The anti-racism collective names the first 14 groups receiving funding and addresses concerns around transparency.
Black Lives Matter UK has given the first grants from its £1.2million fundraiser to 14 Black-interest groups, HuffPost UK can reveal.
The anti-racism collective received more than 36,000 donations amid the global protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder last year.
The initial grants total £170,000 and a second round later this year will see that rise to £600,000 – half of the money received. The remaining £600,000 will be spent on “building an anti-racist organisation that can scale up its existing community organising, educational work and direct actions”.
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Britain’s Electoral Commission has rejected efforts to register Black Lives Matter as a political party on grounds that it would be “likely to mislead voters”.
“The application to register Black Lives Matter as a political party was refused by the Commission on the basis that the proposed name is likely to mislead a voter as to the effect of their vote,” said a spokesman for the controversial regulator in comments reported by MailOnline.
“As part of our considerations we examined the existing groups by the same or similar names in the UK. Having contacted a number of groups, they confirmed that the party was not associated with them,” the spokesman explained.