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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A Black Lives Matter protest in London in July. More than 260 towns and cities held protests in June and July â from Monmouth in south Wales to Shetland in Scotland. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock
Black Lives Matter UK will be releasing more than £100,000 to black-led organisations across the country by the end of the month, as protesters pledge to build on last yearâs anti-racism demonstrations.
The campaign group received £1.2m in donations via a GoFundMe appeal, following widespread protests last summer.
It registered as a community benefit society in September under the name Black Liberation Movement UK, which it had to do before it could receive the donations.
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