The Basketweavers is one of the largest far-right networks currently active in the UK. There are 1,300 vetted members in the UK and an additional 1,100 in the US, Europe, Australia and beyond. Before the network was exposed by HOPE not hate in 2025, its existence had gone unreported. 

Basketweavers prioritise offline events rather than communicating online in channels that are vulnerable to anti-fascist infiltration. The network organises meet-ups for the British far right that have been attended by current and former members of Patriotic Alternative, the Homeland Party, Generation Identity UK, the Traditional Britain Group and more. It has been promoted by extremists like Edward Dutton, Keith Woods and Neema Parvini. 

The Basketweavers have intellectual pretensions and aspire to form a new elite that will displace the current system of government, and hope to create connections from which new far-right projects emerge. One such project is the creation of a separate whites-only community within Britain where they can live entirely outside mainstream society. The network is affiliated with a secretive conference group called Scyldings, which has hosted Curtis Yarvin (a neoreactionary blogger) and Michael Wright (AKA Morgoth).

Founded by Mark Houghton, the Lotus Eaters contributor, the aim is to provide community to isolated young men and radicalise them. “Meeting in person will do more for you – will do more for us – than a hundred online Discord sessions,” he said at a Scyldings conference. “It will do more for your thinking, for your social interaction, than listening alone to a dozen podcasts.”

Basketweavers belongs to an umbrella organisation called the Beowulf Foundation run by Henry Greidanus (AKA Eso), Eamon McDermott (AKA jackmaninov), Martin Judge (AKA Maven Politic), and Joshua Betts.

The network has local chapters in cities and regions, of which London is the busiest. In the capital, a calendar is circulated at the start of every month, advertising events that members can attend in pubs, nightclubs, galleries, other cities, and members’ homes. 

HOPE not hate sent an undercover reporter into the Basketweavers in 2022-2023. From the first meetings attended by our infiltrator, members discussed their affiliation to other far-right groups, their belief that Jews control global affairs, and violent fantasies about refugees. At some events, Basketweavers gave straight arm salutes, at others they shouted racial slurs and called for the murder of left-wing civil servants.