Can you give me a list of all of the donations made to the labor party and by whom in march 2025
Executive summary
A complete, itemised list of every donation to the Labour Party in March 2025 cannot be produced from the reporting provided here because the primary source that would contain transaction-level detail — the Electoral Commission’s registers and search tool — is referenced but not reproduced in full in these materials [1] [2]. What the sources do allow is a summary of quarter‑level totals for January–March 2025 and the names and sums of the largest donors disclosed in that quarter by secondary reporting [1] [3].
1. What the official quarterly report shows: totals and context
The Electoral Commission reported that political parties in the UK accepted £12.95m in donations and public funds in the first quarter of 2025, covering January to March, and warned that published totals can differ from sums actually accepted because of aggregated, late or impermissible entries [1]. That release is the authoritative quarterly summary for Q1 2025 and is the starting point for reconstructing donations in March 2025, but the commission’s statement as provided here does not list each March transaction in full [1].
2. Named large donors in Q1 2025 identified in reporting
LabourList’s reporting on Electoral Commission figures identifies several of the biggest Labour donors for the first quarter of 2025: Reginald Collins is described as the largest individual donor, Unite (the trade union) donated more than £400,000 — more than any single individual — and the Starmer‑aligned think tank Labour Together gave almost £100,000 [3]. Those are headline names and sums reported by LabourList drawing on the Electoral Commission dataset, but they are not presented as an exhaustive March‑only ledger [3].
3. Legal thresholds and why some names may or may not appear
Labour’s own guidance and the statutory rules explain why small gifts won’t show up in public registers and why some donor names are tied to annual thresholds rather than single payments: donations above set thresholds must be reported and published — for example, donors giving more than £2,230 to a constituency Labour Party or more than £11,180 to the national party in a calendar year will have their name and the donation value sent to the Electoral Commission [4] [5]. That means many smaller contributions in March 2025 would not be individually visible in national registers, complicating any attempt to list “all” donors for that month from the summaries available [4] [5].
4. Why an exhaustive, per‑donation March 2025 list is not provided here
The materials supplied include the Electoral Commission’s Q1 summary and media coverage that highlights the largest donors, but they do not include the transactional donor register entries for March 2025 necessary to compile a complete per‑donation list for that month [1] [3]. The Electoral Commission’s public search tool and full donation registers — which would contain date‑stamped, donor‑by‑donor entries above reporting thresholds — are the sources to consult for an exhaustive list; those detailed records were not reproduced in the reporting provided [2] [1].
5. Practical next steps to obtain the full March 2025 ledger
To compile a definitive list of every registered donation to the Labour Party in March 2025, the Electoral Commission’s donation register and search interface must be queried for donations to the Labour Party dated within March 2025 [2] [1]. Secondary outlets have already extracted headline donors from the commission’s Q1 file — for instance, LabourList’s naming of Reginald Collins, Unite and Labour Together as leading donors in that quarter — but those pieces should be treated as summaries unless paired with the commission’s transaction‑level export [3] [1].
6. Alternate perspectives and transparency caveats
Campaign finance experts and watchdogs stress that published totals and named donors tell only part of the story — aggregated entries, loans, “donations in kind,” thresholds for disclosure, and permissibility checks all affect what appears publicly — and the Electoral Commission itself has said the regime needs legal strengthening in areas such as know‑your‑donor checks and limits on company donations [1] [2]. Media coverage highlighting headline donors (LabourList) and broader historical fundraising context (BBC/analyses) are useful but cannot substitute for the commission’s granular registers if the aim is a complete, per‑donation March 2025 list [3] [6].