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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Mark Sweney

British taxpayers take stake in sex party planning firm Killing Kittens

Emma Sayle
Killing Kittens’ founder, Emma Sayle, at the launch of her book in 2014. She set up the company in 2005. Photograph: DZAA/ZDS/Derek Jarvis/WENN.com

Taxpayers have become shareholders in Killing Kittens, a sex party organiser, alongside a business looking to bring airships back to the skies, as part of the fallout from a government rescue funding scheme set up during the coronavirus pandemic.

The taxpayer-backed British Business Bank’s Future Fund, set up by the government to provide loans to startups during the pandemic, has spent about £1.14bn supporting 1,190 companies.

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