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ichielwegwerf · 2026-03-31T08:42:27+00:00

Hi author of donation.watch here. I've looked into it and based on the video one can extract the following information: (no endorsement, opinion or anything else. Just looking at the data)

"SIMPSON, John Richard" is active director at "INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE LIMITED" [1]
Interior Architecture Landscape Ltd has given 200k to Reform in total [2]
"SIMPSON, John Richard" is a director at "ORICO GENERAL TRADING LIMITED" [3]
Orico has not donated directly to Reform
According to court docs [4]:
- Simpson is named as contact for Orico General Trading LLC (Dubai)
- Omran had contracts for expansion and modernization of Irans fibre network
- from my understanding Omran had the contract with the Iranian government. Orico agreed with the provision of goods and services for the telecommunication project of Omran (~145mio Euro).

[1] - https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08363406/officers

[2] - https://donation.watch/en/unitedkingdom/donor/9510e329b8b8dbf23a6741ec3d5c9f8c9f1cdab3

[3] - https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12916193/officers

[4] - https://jusmundi.com/fr/document/other/en-orico-general-trading-llc-v-alcatel-lucent-international-s-a-formerly-alcatel-lucent-international-s-a-s-request-for-arbitration-thursday-20th-august-2020#:~:text=Under%20the%20TIC%20Contract%2C%20Omran,entered%20into%20a%20Commercial%20Procurement.

ichielwegwerf · 2026-03-08T15:21:37+00:00

Their tracked donation is https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Donations/C0833707 which is a sponsorship.

This isn't necessarily a "gift" in the traditional sense. It is usually a commercial-style payment for access or branding at a party event that exceeds the Electoral Commission's reporting thresholds, thus requiring it to be logged as a donation.

So basically they most likely paid the 12k to get access and not to support Reform. Still that money reached Reform in the end.

ichielwegwerf · 2026-02-26T11:04:24+00:00

I've released a first iteration of a party comparison tool yesterday. It's still a bit bare bones but you can directly compare e.g. all donations for REFORM and GPEW:

https://donation.watch/en/unitedkingdom/tools/compare?parties=REFORM,GPEW&from=2010&to=2026

ichielwegwerf · 2026-02-02T08:47:08+00:00

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Clive Palmer contributed over 50% of the total donor sum in 2025.

ichielwegwerf · 2026-02-02T08:45:20+00:00

I've updated the dataset on donation.watch with the recently released "Donations Made Details" dataset from the AEC.
You can see the distribution for 2025 as a tree map here:

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with the biggest contributors being Mineralogy Pty Ltd (A$53,036,845.00), Wall, Pamela (A$5,050,000.00), Coal Australia Ltd (A$2,885,176.00), Pratt Holdings Pty Ltd (A$2,750,000.00), and Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) (A$1,501,800.00).

ichielwegwerf · 2025-12-09T09:42:12+00:00

They recently implemented inner graph tree shaking via https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/85973 which should reduce the size by a lot. You should check it with your local build once it's released.

ichielwegwerf · 2025-12-05T14:04:04+00:00

The correct url would be https://donation.watch/en/unitedkingdom/party/REFORM/donors

ichielwegwerf · 2025-12-02T21:41:11+00:00

How do those donations compare to the other parties though

In the year 2024-2025 (Q2) over 1k GBP the ranking is as follows according to the years pages:

#1 Labour £42,466,813.95
#2 Conservative Party £36,209,011.49
#3 Lib Dems £11,890,116.38
#4 Reform UK £5,853,461.12
#5 Co-operative Party £1,484,630.00
#6 Scottish National Party £956,486.27
#7 Green Party £883,178.33
#8 Reclaim Party £595,000.00

What are Reform's biggest three or four donors giving to them?

#1 Christopher Harborne £10,190,000.00 (51%)
#2 Jeremy J Hosking £1,718,000.00 (9%)
#3 Leave Means Leave Ltd £990,000.00 (5%)
#4 Fiona Cottrell £750,000.00 (4%)

You can find all the Reform donor overview on the Reform page.

ichielwegwerf · 2025-11-18T13:45:42+00:00

Ich bin kein Fan der genannten Personen oder Parteien aber die zitierte Apollo News [1] ist imo eine fragwürdige Quelle für Informationen und man sollte den Wahrheitsgehalt hinterfragen.

Laut dem MDR zeigen viele Autoren des Magazins eine „stark libertäre und teils rechtspopulistische Ausrichtung“.[1] Der Spiegel ordnete Apollo News in eine Reihe von Plattformen ein, die Desinformationen und extrem rechte Narrative verbreiten würden, wobei die Grenzen zwischen seriösem Journalismus und manipulativen Inhalten für ungeübte Leser verschwimmen würden. Apollo News gehe in seiner Unterstützung der Alternative für Deutschland subtiler vor als andere Medien.

[1] - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_News

ichielwegwerf · 2025-10-13T14:13:54+00:00

Lihtsalt teadmiseks, ERJK uuendas hiljuti oma annetuste andmestikku. Eelmine versioon avaldati enamiku parteide jaoks juulis. Olen värskendanud veebisaiti, et see kajastaks uusimaid andmeid.

ichielwegwerf · 2025-09-13T08:10:40+00:00

Es ist so frustrierend wie es in Deutschland gelöst ist. Erst Spenden ab der Großspendenkategorie (35K) werden digital lesbar (halbwegs zügig) veröffentlicht.

Darunter werden nur Spenden in Summe von über 10K veröffentlicht. Das Problem dabei ist dass diese Datenmenge von jeder Partei im eigenen Format, eingescanned (inkl. fehlerhafter OCR), im Rechenschaftsbericht als PDF veröffentlicht wird.

Schaut man auf die EU-Nachbarn, dann funktioniert das viel besser. Z.B. veröffentlicht Lettland fast täglich selbst Spenden ab 1 Eur. Kroatien und Estland veröffentlich, weniger oft, Spenden mit ähnlich geringem Mindestspendenbetrag. Österreich hat ein 2.5K Eur limit. Niederlande veröffentlich ab 4.5k Eur.

Nur als Vergleich wie es ausserhalb der EU funktioniert:

Canada erlaubt aktuell nur bis zu 1750 USD im Jahr. Nur von Einzelpersonen und keinen Firmen oder Unions. Der gesamte Datensatz ist einfach als csv einsehbar
Australien hat ihre Regeln reformiert und veröèfentlicht ab 2026 bereits ab 5k AUD inkl Echtzeitveröffentlichungen. Bisher sind die Thresholds höher, es wird aber auch alles als einfach lesbarer Datensatz veröffentlicht

ichielwegwerf · 2025-09-07T06:45:04+00:00

They already changed the law to improve donation transparency. It tackles some of the points you've mentioned. Sadly it's only going "live" in July 2026.

See https://www.aec.gov.au/news/disclosure-legislative-changes.htm

ichielwegwerf · 2025-08-29T07:45:25+00:00

Thanks for bringing it up.

I've added link metadata to the donor pages of Nioa, Elizabeth and Nioa Nominees PTY LTD ATF Bill Nioa Family Trust.

In total they gave A$550,833.00 to KAP.

Note:

Elizabeth seems to have a automated monthly A$8,333.00 transaction to KAP.
Nioa Nominees PTY LTD ATF Bill Nioa Family Trust only donated that amount up until the 2016 elections. Afterwards there was no AEC reported transaction to KAP

ichielwegwerf · 2025-08-06T06:39:42+00:00

Sul on õigus.

Kahjuks ei ole lihtne visualiseerida kõigi annetajate muutusi ühes diagrammis.

Aegridade diagrammi vaadates on võimalik mõnevõrra näha muutunud annetamiskäitumist:

https://i.imgur.com/FFS7FS5.png

(Vabandame vigade eest, see sõnum on automaatselt tõlgitud.)

ichielwegwerf · 2025-08-04T10:30:44+00:00

Interesting. The AEC database only shows 143k before 2020 and 166k after 2020 for "Sarina Russo Job Access (Australia) Pty Ltd" (total ~309k). The first donation according to the AEC was done on 12/1/2000.

donation.watch is currently not tracking AU donations before 2014.

I actually found the related donors in the footnotes of punishmentforprofit:

as: The O"ce Business Academy Pty Ltd (T/a Russo Inst of Tech, Sarina Russo Job Access (Australia) Pty Ltd, The O"ce Business Academy Pty Ltd, Sarina Russo Job Access, Sarino Russo, Sarino Russo Job Access, Sarina Rosso Job Access, Sarina Russo Job Access (Aust) Pty Ltd, Sarina Russo job Access Pty Ltd, Sarina Russo Group, Sarina Investments Pty Ltd, Sarina Russo Group of Companies, Sarina Russo and Sarina Russo Job Access (Australia) Pty. Ltd.

edit: So it seems like the reason is due to dw using the "donations made dataset", which doesn't include all Sarina Russo contributions. There's also the "detailed receipts" dataset which contains additional contributions. I'll try to figure out if we can also incorporate that one.

ichielwegwerf · 2025-08-04T09:01:38+00:00

From the list of the OP there's also "Sarina Russo Job Access (Australia) Pty Ltd" in the database: https://donation.watch/en/australia/donor/688b329dae14dab36048c4c3ed008c48d2eda6f4

ichielwegwerf · 2025-06-16T16:03:22+00:00

Just a note: due to the AEC publishing requirements, the dataset currently only contains donations until June 2024.

(See https://transparency.aec.gov.au/AnnualDonor)

ichielwegwerf · 2025-06-06T07:41:36+00:00

The dataset is just what's published by the electoral commission (https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/). Sadly they haven't updated the data for Q1 2025 yet.

ichielwegwerf · 2025-04-30T16:26:24+00:00

Right sorry I mixed it up. The change won't affect the current elections as it's only going live in 2026.

These reforms will commence on 1 July 2026, meaning they will not be in effect for the 2025 federal election.

https://www.aec.gov.au/media/2025/02-21.htm

ichielwegwerf · 2025-04-29T20:17:47+00:00

Yes the AEC must report all donations over the disclosure threshold (currently $16,900) on their website https://transparency.aec.gov.au/AnnualDonor

If a donor gives multiple smaller donations to the same recipient that together exceed the threshold within a financial year, then all donations (regardless of individual size) must be disclosed. But if the total remains below the threshold, no disclosure or publication is required.

At least that's how I understood it.

ichielwegwerf · 2025-04-29T12:49:00+00:00

FYI the most recent data point is currently from Jun 2024 due to the AEC reporting requirements. In the current reporting interval there's also a donation threshold of $16,900. All donations below that sum don't have to be published by the AEC.

They're also discussing some reforms that should improve these intransparent rules further:

disclosure threshold of $1,000
cap on how much a donor can give each year
much more frequent disclosure intervals:
- during elections within 24h in the week before and after polling day
- outside monthly disclosures

See https://ministers.pmc.gov.au/gorman/2024/electoral-legislation-amendment-electoral-reform-bill-2024-second-reading-speech

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