The largest single grant Hope Not Hate received last year did not come from a foundation with a website or a press office. It came from a company registered at Companies House as non-trading, whose record states it knows of no registrable owner.
The grant
- NPT Transatlantic Ltd — £208,000 (FY2024)
- SIC code 74990 — “Non-trading company” — yet it handed over £208,000
- Registered office: Third Floor, 20 Old Bailey, London EC4M 7AN
- PSC: “The company knows or has reasonable cause to believe that there is no registrable person or registrable relevant legal entity” — no beneficial owner on record
Who is really behind it
The listed officers are not donors. They are the administrators of a Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) — the tax wrapper that lets a wealthy individual make a charitable gift while remaining off the public record.
- Officers include tax and estates professionals from the cross-border wealth industry (KPMG Switzerland advisory, US tax counsel, and others)
- The underlying vehicle advertises that you can “remain anonymous in your giving if desired”
The structural point
The biggest cheque to the anti-hate campaign operation arrived by a route specifically engineered so the true donor cannot be identified from public filings. That is not an accident of paperwork. It is the design.
So: £208,000, no owner, no trading, no public questions answered. When the machine that lectures the rest of us about transparency takes its biggest single donation, the donor does not want to be named.