As if taxpayer-funded grants weren’t bad enough, The National Lottery is pretty hideous too – as I have been keen to emphasise in past pieces:
Today I will explain how The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) recently funded “a gender identity support group” titled “Squirrel Friends”:
I discovered this using the excellent “Doge Finder” tool created by my colleague Sean Proctor. You can find it at doge-uk.com (we are still beavering away on operation “DOGE UK”!)
If you go to the website and click “Menu”, you will be able to trawl multiple grants (from universities to charities):
Here are TNLCF’s grants (for 2004-2025) – a whopping £12.18 billion’s worth!
I clicked on TNLCF Grants 2024-25, and then chose “Transgender” from the dropdown menu. Our search tool is quite crude but incredibly useful for identifying woke waste (given we are combing through masses of data):
Behold, the grants that “Transgender” bring up:
I’m afraid my eyes were most-drawn to the word “Squirrel” (even though I know there are other problematic examples above).
Below I have highlighted a £19,482 grant that went towards “Squirrel Friends – A Transgender Network”:
It’s description reads:
Squirrel Friends – A Transgender Network in Merthyr Tydfil is using a £19482 grant to provide a safe and welcoming space for members of the LGBTQ+ community providing drop in support services counselling a safe space and to get advice through a peer-to-peer network.
On its website, Squirrel Friends says it’s a “Peer-to-Peer support group founded by three trans women from South Wales, with the aim to provide a safe and engaging place for anyone within the UK who needs support with their gender identity issues, as well as family members who may be having difficulty understanding their loved one or who just need support themselves. We were later joined by another to become what the members refer to as the Elder Squirrels.”
Nutmeg (below) is the group’s “cheeky mascot who helps us to raise awareness of our group so that we can help and support more transgendered individuals.” You can also see the National Lottery Community Fund mentioned below:
One of Squirrel Friends’ founders says “I try my best to keep our mascot #Nutmeg_Squirrel out of trouble while at public events, ( A very tricky task indeed! )”
Anyway, aren’t you soooooo glad TNLCF is supporting this…
Yet another reason not to buy a Lottery ticket!
