JCB gave £480,000 to political recipients in six months, including £200,000 each to Reform UK and the Conservatives

J.C. Bamford Excavators Limited (company number 00561597) donated £480,000 to three political recipients between 27 October 2025 and 22 April 2026, according to the Electoral Commission register.

On 3 November 2025 the company made two cash donations of £200,000: one to Reform UK (C0835466) and one to the Conservative and Unionist Party (C0835903).

It gave £40,000 to Conservatives Together on 27 October 2025 (C0834200).

Three further donations went to the Conservative and Unionist Party in spring 2026: £25,000 on 24 March (C0838113), £5,000 on 1 April (C0838114) and £10,000 on 22 April (C0840321). Across the period the party received £240,000 from the company.

The register records the company under four spellings ("J.C. BAMFORD EXCAVATORS LIMITED", "J.C. Bamford Excavators Ltd", "J C Bamford Excavators Ltd" and "JC Bamford Excavators Ltd") and gives its company number both as 00561597 and as 561597. The donations appear as one pattern only when joined on the company number with leading zeros ignored.

Corporate donations to more than one party are lawful and routinely reported.

Loro has made no approach to the company and draws no inference about the reasons for the donations. The figures above are as reported to the Electoral Commission by the recipients.

Correction, 29 September 2026: an earlier version of this article said JCB gave £270,000 in four donations. It omitted a £200,000 donation to the Conservative and Unionist Party on 3 November 2025 (C0835903), recorded under company number 561597, and a £10,000 donation to the party on 22 April 2026 (C0840321). The headline, standfirst and figures have been corrected.