The claim "Those payments appear not to have been registered" refers to Nigel Farage's assertion that Hope Not Hate Limited had not registered donations (specifically grants from the Hope Unlimited Charitable Trust, totalling around £788,000 in 2024) with the Electoral Commission since 2019. Several important points emerge from the available evidence: 1. Hope Not Hate Limited is registered with the Electoral Commission as a non-party campaigner (third-party campaigner), confirmed by multiple sources including the organisation's own statements and reporting. 2. The grants are documented in Companies House accounts and Charity Commission filings — the £788,000 grant from HUCT to Hope Not Hate Limited in 2024 is a matter of public record through charitable and company filings. 3. Whether these grants must be registered with the Electoral Commission as donations depends on their purpose. A 2019 Electoral Commission FOI response explained that non-party campaigners must report donations received "in line with their campaign spending" during regulated periods, and only individual donations over £7,500 need detailed reporting. In the 2017 general election, Hope Not Hate reported an aggregate figure of donations between £500 and £7,500 but no individual donations above £7,500. 4. The characterization of the grants is disputed. HUCT and Hope Not Hate Limited both maintain that the grants from the charitable trust are "ringfenced for charitable and non-political work" and "not used to fund electoral campaigning." If the grants are genuinely for non-campaign purposes, they would not need to be registered as campaign donations with the Electoral Commission. Farage disputes this characterization. 5. The Electoral Commission had not ruled on the complaint as of the available sources (dated late June 2026). The Charity Commission had already dismissed Farage's first complaint against HUCT, finding that "the charity's funds were not used in producing or circulating the materials" in the Makerfield by-election. The narrow factual claim — that the HUCT grants do not appear on the Electoral Commission's register of donations for Hope Not Hate Limited — may be accurate as an observation. However, whether this constitutes a breach depends on unresolved legal questions about whether those grants count as campaign-related donations requiring registration. The Electoral Commission has not adjudicated this, and the current contents of the Electoral Commission's donation register cannot be directly verified from the available sources. The claim is fact-shaped but rests on an unresolved regulatory question and a disputed characterization of the payments' purpose. Sources: - Civil Society, "Farage files second Hope Not Hate complaint after charity cleared," https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/farage-files-second-hope-not-hate-complaint-after-charity-cleared.html - Civil Society, "Commission considers Farage complaint against anti-racist charity," https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/commission-considers-farage-complaint-against-anti-racist-charity.html - Third Sector, "Charity cleared by commission after Farage complaint," https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/charity-cleared-commission-farage-complaint/governance/article/1962712 - WhatDoTheyKnow, Electoral Commission FOI response on Hope Not Hate donation reporting (2019), https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/charities_confirming_donations - GOV.UK / Companies House, "HOPE NOT HATE LIMITED overview," https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08188502 - GOV.UK / Charity Commission, "Hope Not Hate Charitable Trust addresses concerns following intervention by regulator," https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hope-not-hate-charitable-trust-addresses-concerns-following-intervention-by-regulator