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Each year, Lasse Diding gives out the Lenin Award of 100,000 SEK to "an author or artist in Sweden, who operates with social criticism and in a rebellious leftist tradition" and the Robespierre Prize of 10,000 SEK to "a young Swedish writer or artist, who operates in a critical spirit". The awards originally also bore the name of Jan Myrdal and were given out by the Jan Myrdal Society, but since 2017 Lasse Diding stands alone behind the awards.

Lasse Diding was the initiator of the founding of the Jan Myrdal Society in 2008 and later in collaboration with Henning Mankell also made a house in Varberg available to the large private library Jan Myrdal donated to the society. The Jan Myrdal Library was officially opened in 2015.

Lasse Diding bought Susanna Arwin's statue "With the handbag as a weapon" (based on the 1985 photo A Woman Hitting a Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag) in 2015; the following year he donated it to Varberg Municipality for placement in Brunnsparken in the centre of Varberg. But the statue had been much disputed, and after extensive debate in the local press, the municipality decided not to accept the donation. After that, Lasse Diding chose instead to donate "With the handbag as a weapon" to Halland Museum of Cultural History at Varberg Fortress and in September 2016, the Halland County Museums Foundation made a unanimous decision to receive the statue. In connection with The Handbag's Day in May 2017, the statue was given its current location in the garden of Lasse Diding's Villa Wäring in Varberg, where passers-by can view the artwork.

Lasse Gunnar Diding, originally Lars Gunnar Diding, born April 24, 1953 in Varberg, is a Swedish hotel entrepreneur and celebrity. Between 1987 and 2018 he operated Hotell Gästis in Varberg and from opening 2013 to 2018 also Hotell Havanna in the same city. In 2007, Lasse Diding was named Entrepreneur of the Year in Varberg.