The text below is taken from this online article edited down by myself to the headlines below. I encourage you to read the linked to article which gives way more interesting detail than my headlines below.
The headlines from the linked to above article
Paul Marshall as invested £10m in GB News and he & his wife have been worshippers at London’s Holy Trinity Brompton, (HTB - some £10m a year budget church).
HTB is also the church that was part of Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury faith journey. He was baptised there, married there and attended consistently until his mid-thirties.
According to the article linked to above, a Sequoia Trust is chaired by Marshall and in the year to mid-2022 dispensed some £80m in charitable giving. It gave £10m to the Church Revitalisation Trust (CRT). HTB, the CRT and the Alpha course share their offices and many of their senior staff.
In July 2020 culture secretary Oliver Dowden announced a Community Match Challenge, Marshall’s charities, the CRT and Ark, each received handouts of between £4m and £5m from the Match Challenge in 2020 and later £0.5m to HTB.
An independent review of the Church’s of England's Strategic Development Fund found that 14% of total funds had gone to projects run solely by the CRT, and an additional 29% to those in which the CRT was involved together with churches from other traditions.
Marshall’s latest reform project is the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (the acronym serving as a second take on the Ark theme). This Arc is crewed by right-wing politicians, activists and influencers, whose aim is to repair what their research describes as “the fraying of the social fabric”.
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