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Recent awards by the organisation - which dishes out more than £840 million a year in taxpayer cash and the National Lottery - included £100,000 for the Migration Matters Festival.

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Brimstone Report is tracking this as a curated border & immigration brief. The source report from Daily Mail says: Recent awards by the organisation - which dishes out more than £840 million a year in taxpayer cash and the National Lottery - included £100,000 for the Migration Matters Festival.
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- Primary source: Daily Mail
- Published: Aug 1, 2026, 7:53 PM UTC
- Coverage area: Border & Immigration
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- Topic signals: developing story metadata
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