The Guardian says sorry for slavery links and sets up £10m reparation fund.
Guardian owner The Scott Trust to launch 10-year programme of ‘restorative justice’
The Guardian has apologised for historic links to slavery and set up a £10m reparation fund after a three-year investigation into itself.
The Scott Trust, which owns Guardian Media Group, plans to launch a decade-long programme of “restorative justice” to make up for the role the newspaper’s founders played in the transatlantic slave trade.
This will include donating millions of pounds to communities harmed by the business interests of the Guardian’s 19th-century founders. The donations will be funded from The Scott Trust’s £1.3bn endowment.
It comes after an investigation commissioned by the trust found that the paper’s founder and the vast majority of his financial backers had links to slavery, mainly through the textiles industry. DT.
Blogger: Gotta wonder where the £10million appeared from. Thought The Grauniad was always broke?
