I’ll look into this. That beaver woman always struck me as odd. In fact, I was told that she had ‘mental issues’.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001mt6s

The key to his prosecution was a broadcast where he said “Jews are filth. Jews are rats. They deserve to be wiped out”. I was wondering what views the Welsh Government has on sponsoring such rural businesses as we’re being told that these eco-retreats are wholesome and good for Welsh communities.

The amount appears in the Green Gathering annual accounts at the Charity Commission. The Green Gathering of festival was cancelled because of Covid, so it may have become insolvent without the grant.

Company number: 7720425
Charity Number: 1156593

In the latest financial report to the charity commission, they tell us “A grant of £45,000 was received from the Arts Council of England, Culture Recovery Fund and this was paid out to the trading subsidiary to enable it to continue functioning after the cancellation of the 2020 event.”

£44k went to Optimistic Trout Productions CIC.
£1k in travelling expenses to Muggeridge who does live in Maidstone, Kent.

The grant is from a fund set up by Westminster designed to keep theatres, opera, ballet, art galleries and museums solvent when they experience loss of revenue due to Covid lockdown.

https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/news/more-emergency-funding-cultural-organisations-and-creative-individuals

The granting body is Arts Council England and it is branded “Emergency Funding for Creative Individuals and Cultural Organisations”. I conclude that they claimed it is an event in England, or that an England only body has decided to overstep its remit and ventured into Wales.

This is while loads of native Welsh cultural events went bankrupt.

Why are they getting money from Arts Council England?

There has been a new trustee at Green Gatherings, Mr Buzz Cadel Marshall Jones-Medeema, appointed in November 2021. Buzz is a member of staff at the House of Lords. He works for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb. All was not lost for this festival of hippis held annually in Chepstow. Cancelled by the Covid pandemic, they got a Covid grant from the Arts Council of England for £44k to keep them afloat. Strange as the registered office in Wales and the event is held in Wales. Not all of the £44k has been spent, although there were some travelling expenses paid out to Stephen Muggeridge who lives in Maidstone, Kent. Presumably, he had to travel to Wales during the pandemic. The rest of the £44k was Arts Count for England grant to Green Gatherings was handed over to the trading company called Optimistic Trout Productions CIC of Llandysul.

Almost certainly.

So who is Tammi Dallaston?

She works as the communications and marketing officer at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) near Machynlleth. She is also a director of a company called Mach Maethlon (08026863) which changed its name from Green Isle Growers in 2016. Tammi was, until taking up her appointment at CAT, was also a director of a company called Moulsecoomb Forest and Wildlife Project (04334389) a charity based in Brighton which specialises in educational support services for excluded pupils in Sussex. She listed her occupation then as ‘Farm Manager’.

I wonder if a “grant to plant the trees” has been applied for?

The location of the “Green Gathering Festival” is Piercefield Park. This is the grounds of the now ruined 18th century manor, Piercefield House. The land was acquired by Colonel Valentine Morris of Antigua, using funds liberated from slavery and his sugar plantations there.

In 2005 the land and ruin was up for sale at a price of £2m. It did not sell and withdrawn from the market in 2012. So who owns it now? A clue comes from the latest ‘Green Gatherings’ newsletter (see below), which tell us that “Local action is crucial too and we’re researching how best to maintain and regenerate our festival site to enhance biodiversity.”

and

“We’re getting involved in managing the trees in Piercefield Park which means in future the festival’s firewood and benches will be made from the most locally sourced wood possible. We’re only taking out wood that really needs harvesting to keep the trees healthy and safe, we’re leaving lots of dead branches for the wee beasties to live in too, of course, and we’re aiming to plant more trees this winter. We’d love a grove and a forest garden.”

Which begs the question as to why the Welsh Government is sponsoring events on the landed estates of those who inherited their land and wealth from slavery?

As a kind of postscript to that strong piece I note that Plaid have announced yet another “partnership” this time with the Greens to tackle the City elections in Cardiff. They just can’t help themselves, can they ? Like a whore in the downhill part of her career climbing into any bed where there might be a few shillings ( or votes) they seek out partners of any creed. The Greens are obviously wedded to so much of the blashemy that encourages large scale windfarms regardless of the ecology that gets ripped up, so how is that partnership “good” by any yard stick other than it might pull a few votes ? All while one of the best they ever had in Cardiff is abandoned because he rejected the orthodoxy of sucking up.