🏴🏴🏴🏴��WHO HAS FUNDED THE SCOTTISH REFUGEE COUNCIL?
While ordinary Scots are told public services are stretched, a refugee NGO in Glasgow has been able to draw support from government, banks, major brands, law firms, foundations and football-linked charities
We went back through a decade of Scottish Refugee Council reports and accounts.
And this is MUCH bigger than a few corporate donors.
LOTTERY MONEY
The National Lottery Community Fund National Lottery Heritage Fund and previously the Big Lottery Fund.
The Lottery also partnered with SRC on the Reaching New Scots Fund, with £1.5 MILLION raised by National Lottery players for grassroots refugee-integration organisations across Scotland.
GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC MONEY
Scottish Government
Glasgow City Council
Dundee City Council
Perth & Kinross Council
North Lanarkshire Council
Angus Council
Creative Scotland
Glasgow Health & Social Care Partnership
Plus substantial historic funding through the EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF).
In 2024/25 alone, SRC's accounts recorded around £5.66 MILLION from Scottish Government-funded programmes, dominated by the Refugee Support Service and Guardianship Scotland.
And that was BEFORE the new £8 MILLION Refugee Support Service contract began in October 2025.
CHARITIES, TRUSTS & FOUNDATIONS
The Robertson Trust
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Comic Relief
AB Charitable Trust
Justice Together Fund
BBC Children in Need
Trussell Trust
Foundation Scotland
William Grant Foundation
Oak Foundation
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
Corra Foundation
National Emergencies Trust
Network for Social Change
Legal Education Foundation
Wheatley Foundation
Celtic FC Foundation
Seattle Foundation
plus numerous smaller charitable trusts.
CORPORATE & BUSINESS SUPPORT
IKEA
Starbucks
Barclays
Santander Foundation
Shawbrook Bank
Baillie Gifford
Brodies LLP
Amiqus
Search Recruitment
McArthur Green
Lennox Partnership
and others publicly acknowledged in SRC reports.
Some were cash funders. Others provided sponsorship, fundraising or in-kind support — we're keeping those categories separate.
But the overall picture is unmistakable:
Government money.
Council money.
EU money.
Lottery money.
Major charitable foundations.
Banks.
Law firms.
Major brands.
All flowing into or supporting the same Glasgow-based organisation that also sits alongside the Scottish Government and COSLA as a formal partner in Scotland's New Scots refugee-integration strategy.
This is not a small grassroots charity.
It is a major institution inside Scotland's refugee and asylum infrastructure.
Next: the full ten-year money trail.
What is it about our political 'leaders' and free cash?
Now it emerges that Burnham has received £345,000 in donations in the last 12 months.
This amount of free money is obscene for 'public servaants'.
It's a joy ride on the gravy train.
@ABridgen Shame on them a;; that knew about this, iv been ill ever since I had those two jabs and I wish I never did in the first place, I do wonder how were ever get to trust any at the top and governments that knew about this and lied or any in the future, il never trust them again .
@TRobinsonNewEra I finded this sickening and it just shows what the younger generation are all about, they should be utterly ashamed of themselves, there smug smiles, just like todays govenments, evil doing such a thing ,