Neo-nazi ‘white homelands’ money and land may be confiscated

NOTE: This article was published on 16 April 2025A neo-nazi scheme which raised thousands of pounds to buy land all over the UK to establish white enclaves seems to have hit serious problems. The Woodlander Initiative (TWI), run by Simon Birkett (aka Woodlander), has so far raised over £150,000 from extremists in the UK, some…

NOTE: This article was published on 16 April 2025
Simon Birkett addresses Patriotic Alternative conference 2024
Simon Birkett addresses Patriotic Alternative conference 2024

A neo-nazi scheme which raised thousands of pounds to buy land all over the UK to establish white enclaves seems to have hit serious problems.

The Woodlander Initiative (TWI), run by Simon Birkett (aka Woodlander), has so far raised over £150,000 from extremists in the UK, some of which has already been used to buy two plots of land in Wales. Its aim is to raise £1 million and buy land in every county in the country.

Members of Patriotic Alternative, with which Birkett is closely linked, have been using the land in Wales for ‘camping’ weekends.

Struck off

But a notice filed yesterday at Companies House says that ‘unless cause is shown to the contrary’ the company will be struck off in two months’ time.

The reason for this is not given, but it means that Woodlander Initiative assets – principally their ‘white homeland’ plots of land in Wales and any remaining cash – will become the property of the Crown.

This will not please TWI’s far-right supporters who believed that their money would fund white enclaves, only to find out now that it might all end up in the hands of ZOG.

Many ‘shareholders’ will not have realised that when they parted with their money that they were, in effect, making a gift to Birkett. Although TWI described their contributions as ‘shares’ and ‘holdings’ they were not shares in any legal sense as TWI, which purchased the land, is under his sole control, as are its assets.

Far right history

Birkett has a long history on the far right going back to membership of the National Front and the BNP. But most recently he has been associated with Mark Collett’s Patriotic Alternative at whose conference he spoke last year.

Birkett, who has been interviewed several times on Collett’s online Patriotic Weekly Review, where TWI has been boosted, lives ‘off grid’ in Wiltshire and has a considerable following on You Tube. When he was hospitalised earlier this year, PA published updates on his condition on their Telegram channel.

Throw your money away

Writing in the neo-Nazi magazine Heritage and Destiny, Collett described TWI as:

“…a fantastic initiative that allows nationalists to pool their money in order to purchase land and property, so now we have places to meet, camp and socialise. This is a long-term plan that will hopefully catch on and turn into the establishment of indigenous heartlands; places for our people.”

Or, as is the way with so many far-right fund raising schemes, somewhere where you can just throw your money away.


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