FOI release

BSCC/FOI/0421/OC: Payments made to charities and third sector organisations

Updated 27 August 2021

Freedom of Information Request regarding payments made to charities and third sector organisations

Published 24 August 2021

Dear [redacted]

Letter by email

I write in response an email received from you to our office on 17 August 2021 in which you ask for information on payments made to charities and third sector organisations. Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Q1. Please provide the following information for 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21:

  • The value of grants made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information for each of the three financial years separately, and list all grants separately.
  • The value of loans made to each of the organisations listed below. Please provide the information for each of the three financial years separately, and list all loans separately.

The payments made to charities and third sector organisations relate to the following only:

  • Operation Black Vote
  • U.K. Black Pride
  • Mermaids
  • Ozanne Foundation
  • Gendered Intelligence
  • British Medical Association
  • ActionAid UK
  • Hope Not Hate
  • Led by Donkeys
  • Extinction Rebellion
  • Migrants Organise
  • CLASS
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Action on Smoking and Health
  • Action on Smoking and Health Scotland
  • Action on Smoking and Health Wales
  • Breath 2025
  • Association of Directors of Public Health
  • Improving Performance in Practice (previously Public Management Associates)

I am an independent regulator appointed by the Home Secretary and supported by Home Office staff. I do not hold the information which you have requested.

If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to the email address below, quoting reference BSCC/FOI/0121-2/KS. If you ask for an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.

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As part of any internal review my handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff that were not involved in providing you with this response. If you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.