Funding Bonanza for Just Stop Oil

Funding bonanza for Just Stop Oil as Labour donor Dale Vince donates £170,000 to controversial climate group

• Just Stop Oil raised almost £1million in a funding blitz triggered by Dale Vince
• His move was followed by director Adam McKay- tripling the sum to £500,000
• It is anticipated this money will help bankroll more Just Stop Oil protests 

Just Stop Oil raised almost £1million in weeks in a funding blitz triggered by Labour donor Dale Vince.

The 61-year-old tycoon, who owns green energy firm Ecotricity, handed £170,000 to the climate group last month after promising to double all donations it received in a 48-hour period.

His move was followed by Hollywood director Adam McKay, who tripled the total sum pledged to Just Stop Oil during the following 48 hours – raising another £500,000.

It is anticipated the money will help bankroll more protests, which have included a stunt at Wimbledon, a vandalism attempt on Van Gogh's Sunflowers and throwing orange paint at the Chelsea Flower Show.

The MoS can also reveal that former New Age traveller Mr Vince donated £75,000 to vegan activist outfit Animal Rising, whose plot to sabotage the Grand National was foiled by this newspaper's undercover investigation. The group received £25,000 from Mr Vince in September and £50,000 in June.

Dale Vince, who owns green energy firm Ecotricity, handed £170,000 to the climate group last month

Hollywood director Adam McKay rose another £500,000 for Just Stop Oil's campaign

Simon Milner-Edwards, 66, a retired musician from Manchester, was among the Just Stop Oil fanatics to invade Court 18 at Wimbledon

A spokesman for Animal Rising admitted that Mr Vince, pictured, has made 'semi-regular large contributions', recently donating 'tens of thousands of pounds' following the failed Grand National protest.

Figures suggest Mr Vince – who also owns carbon- neutral football club Forest Green Rovers – spent around £220,000 bankrolling protest groups in the month of June alone.

Meanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has come under increasing pressure to return £1.5 million given to the party by Mr Vince.

Data from the Electoral Commission shows he has handed Labour a series of sizeable donations since 2013, including £500,000 from Ecotricity last October and another £200,000 six months earlier.

Mr Vince's firm also paid £20,000 directly to Sir Keir in 2020.

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Just Stop Oil donor Dale Vince has warned that the eco-mob will continue to disrupt 'high-profile' sports which are on its 'target list'. Pictured is Mr Vince joining Just Stop Oil activists during a protest by the environmental campaigners in central London. 

The multi-millionaire said protesters - such as this activist disrupting female British number one Katie Boulter's match - will continue to target big sporting events 

Dale Vince, who has donated money both to Just Stop Oil and Labour, said the weather was getting worse due to climate change

Labour Leader Keir Starmer frantically tried to distance himself from the activities of Just Stop Oil - and saw his own speech disrupted by climate activists (pictured). Sir Keir condemned the disruptive protesters as 'arrogant' 

Green entrepreneur Dale Vince was questioned on Sky News about the £1.5million donations he has made to the Labour party

Mr Vince argued that he is not a 'funder of zealots' despite having donated to Just Stop Oil. He compared those who are sceptical about man-made climate change to Holocaust deniers. Mr Vince also suggested Rishi Sunak's government is killing people with its stance on fossil fuels.

Mr Vince has given at least £1.5million to the Opposition under Sir Keir Starmer, as well as helping to bankroll the controversial activist group Just Stop Oil

In his days as a penniless hippy, Dale Vince (pictured) used to trundle around the country in a big yellow truck. That was before the lorry driver's son from Norfolk discovered there were fortunes to be made by leaping on to the green energy bandwagon. And leap he did

It's not hard to understand why the twice-married father-of-three has thrown his weight – and bulging bank account – behind the climate activist group Just Stop Oil whose protests have caused untold disruption across the UK 

His wind farm company, Ecotricity Ltd, has made him one of the UK's wealthiest businessmen, worth £100million

Millionaire business tycoon, Dale Vince, joined Just Stop Oil protesters outside Parliament. It follows revelations that he had donated £1.5 million to the Labour Party. Vince wielded a megaphone as he ranted against the Conservative Party during the march through central London

Just Stop Oil activists holding a slow march through Hammersmith, west London

Met Police officers arrested four Just Stop Oil protesters for refusing to leave the road in Trafalgar Square

Labour has accepted £1.5million from Just Stop Oil funder Dale Vince over several years

A protester is taken off the road in Trafalgar Square by police officers 

Activists in the capital were seen holding up signs that said 'end new oil and gas' and 'new oil = murder'

An activist being dragged off the road by a police officer in Trafalgar Square 

A cyclist told Met Police officers they should 'arrest' protesters for 'breaking the law'

Seconds later a woman trying to get to hospital pleaded with the activists to let her get around

Last week Mr Vince gave £340,000 to the group

A taxi driver in Hammersmith pleaded with the activists who held signs that read 'no new oil'

Police issued a Section 12 condition which ordered the protesters to move onto the pavement

Met Police officers arrested activist Pheobe Plummer for breaking her bail conditions

Mr Vince with his £1million electric supercar: His ex-wife Kathleen Wyatt claimed she tried and failed to get him to pay her maintenance and child support

Grand: The £3million, 18th-century fort owned and lived in by Dale Vince

Just Stop Oil continued their six-week campaign of disruption in London as they targeted Vauxhall, south-west London

a furious motorist rips three Just Stop Oil banners from the hands of the eco-zealots

After grabbing the banners from their hands, the angry motorist then dumped them on the side of the road

The Metropolitan Police was forced to stop three marches

Jonny Bairstow removed a Just Stop Oil Daniel Knorr from the pitch during day one of the second Ashes Test match at Lord's

Police officers picked up Knorr and carried  him away after Bairstow intervened

Wimbledon are planning to give the Just Stop Oil protestors unprecedented lifetime bans

Just Stop Oil has hinted that they will try to stop the British Grand Prix at Silverstone after posting a video on Twitter celebrating their protest at last year's race (pictured)  

The eco-zealots shared a music video poking fun at the disruption caused at Silverstone last year when protestors invaded the track

A Just Stop Oil protestor is tackled during Day One of the 2nd Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Lord's Cricket Ground

The Army will be deployed at Silverstone in a beefed-up security operation against protestors 

Police used a Section 12 Order to disperse a group of four Just Stop Oil activists protesting on Tower Bridge

A JSO protester interrupts day one of the second Ashes test match at Lord's

JSO has been staging daily protests since April 24. Pictured: Just Stop Oil members hold banners as they marched along Brompton Road in West London

Two JSO groups brought London roads to a stand-still at 8am in Victoria, central London

Police placed notices ordering both marches off the road by 8.30am

Home Secretary Suella Braverman lashed out at the group after it was revealed their traffic-stopping antics had cost the taxpayer millions

Just Stop Oil protesters were drenched in water by a furious Londoner standing on a balcony

The activists were sprayed with water from an upstairs balcony, the thrower (pictured) was seen shouting and pointing at the activists below

A Just Stop Oil protester attempted to disrupt the wedding of former chancellor George Osborne to his long-term partner yesterday. The organisation shared video of the incident, saying: 'You look good in orange George Osborne - congratulations to the newlyweds'

A woman ambushed George Osborne and his long-term partner Thea Rogers outside the 14th century St Mary's Church in the Somerset village of Bruton

The incident at Mr Osborne's wedding provoked fresh fury following Just Stop Oil's recent disruption of the Ashes cricket at Lord's and the tennis at Wimbledon