The People's Chamber
ISSUE 78
JUN 5-11, 2026
Reform UK

Reform UK · Money map

Who actually funds the Reform UK

Every declared donation to the Reform UK on the Electoral Commission register, aggregated by year, by donor type, by sector and by accounting unit. The headline number on the policy page is £32,657,143 across 412 declared donations from 188 distinct donors. The figures below are the decomposition.

Lifetime declared
£32.7m
412 donations
Distinct donors
188
EC register, all-time
Top 10 donors' share
69.8%
of all lifetime income
Largest single donor
Christopher Harborne
£9m

By donor type

The most diagnostic single decomposition. Tells you who actually owns the party.

Donor typeDonationsTotal% of all-time
Individual204£26.3m80.6%
Company124£5.3m16.1%
Public Fund17£710k2.2%
Impermissible Donor66£368k1.1%
Unidentifiable Donor1£1k0.0%

Year by year

Declared total per calendar year. Election years and leadership-change years usually spike.

YearDonationsTotalScale
202616£5.5m
2025244£19.4m
2024113£4.1m
20235£250k
20221£20k
20216£148k
20207£1.3m
201920£1.9m

Where the money landed · accounting unit

Money that lands at Central HQ funds the party machine. Money that lands at a constituency association funds a single seat. The mix tells you whether the party is centrally bankrolled or locally rooted.

WhereDonationsTotal% of all-time
Other176£18.3m56.1%
Central HQ236£14.4m43.9%

Top funding sectors

Donor names matched against the site’s sector classifier. Untagged donors (individuals, generic companies) are not included — this is the political-economy view.

SectorDistinct donorsTotal
Finance10£1.2m
Property3£90k

Top 30 donors · lifetime

#DonorTypeDonationsLifetime total
1Christopher HarborneIndividual1£9m
2Mr Christopher HarborneIndividual10£4.5m
3Mr Ben Peter DeloIndividual2£4m
4Mr David John GraingerIndividual4£1.1m
5Leave Means Leave LimitedCompany1£990k
6Mr Jeremy HoskingIndividual8£760k
7Mrs Fiona CottrellIndividual3£750k
8Britain Means Business LimitedCompany7£623k
9TISUN Investments LimitedCompany33£613k
10Mr Nicholas CandyIndividual4£500k
11Nicholas CandyIndividual2£490k
12House of CommonsPublic Fund15£483k
13Mr Muhammad Ziauddin YusufIndividual3£406k
14Mr Bassim HaidarIndividual5£325k
15Mr David George Plumer LilleyIndividual5£274k
16E.I.R.P LimitedCompany2£270k
17John VerbeetenIndividual4£251k
18Mr Navroz D UdwadiaIndividual1£250k
19First Corporate Consultants LimitedCompany3£230k
20The Electoral CommissionPublic Fund2£228k
21William Alan McIntoshIndividual3£200k
22Mr Ashley Mark LevettIndividual1£200k
23J.C. Bamford Excavators LtdCompany1£200k
24London AC LtdCompany2£200k
25Oliver EvansIndividual2£200k
26Interior Architecture Landscape LtdCompany7£200k
27Mr Duncan MackayIndividual2£200k
28Evan Management LimitedCompany2£200k
29Mr Malcolm RobinsonIndividual5£160k
30Mr Oliver EvansIndividual8£140k

Source: Electoral Commission donations register, recipient_name = “Reform UK”. All-time, all accounting units. Includes both monetary donations and non-cash benefits.