Why did Comic Relief award £340,000 to “Bail for Immigration Detainees”?

The charity also received £10,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund

It really beggars belief but Comic Relief awarded £340,000 to the charity Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID).

The £340,000 is comprised of two grants worth £300,000 and £40,000, as you can see below:

BID doesn’t beat around the bush about its aims. Its website explains:

BID is an independent charity that exists to end immigration detention in the UK.

We dream of a world free of immigration detention, where people are not deprived of their liberty or deported from their home.

We aim to end immigration detention in the UK through the provision of legal advice, information and representation alongside research, policy advocacy and strategic litigation.

On Instagram it is very vocal about its beliefs…

… and proposes that immigration detainees should get “automatic legal advice within 48 hours”:

Shockingly, this charity also received £10,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund, which I will be writing about next week. A preview below:

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BID’s other funders constantly come up when I am looking into other asylum and migration/ left-wing charities. These are:

  • AB Charitable Trust

  • City Bridge Foundation

  • John Ellerman Foundation

  • Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation

  • The Tudor Trust

  • Trust for London

You can read a bit more about some of these here:

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