Sir '''Ronald Cohen''' is a pioneer of Private Equity (PE) in the UK. He is reportedly close to [[Gordon Brown]].<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/27/jack-straw-tax-exiles Jack Straw to take on Labour MPs over tax exiles], Guardian, 27 Feb 2009</ref> He is chairman of the [[Portland Trust]] and [[Bridges Ventures]], a director of [[Social Finance UK]] and [[Social Finance US]] and is also advising the current UK Government on the establishment of The [[Big Society Bank]]. <ref> [http://www.portlandtrust.org/senior_management.html Senior Management: Sir Ronald Cohen], The Portland Trust website, accessed 4 October 2011</ref>

==Lobbying==

Cohen believes passionately that PE is good for the economy and, according to BBC journalist Robert Peston, has "lobbied tirelessly for favourable tax treatment for the industry he helped to create."

:"Brown was a sympathetic listener... and gave to the UK one of the most generous tax regimes.. of any developed economy. And for venture capital and private equity, the great news was that the tax rate on carried interest - the millions earned by PE partners from their share of the gains on big deals - would also be 10 per cent. At the time Cohen was over the moon. His lobbying had been extremely effective."<ref>Robert Peston, ''Who Runs Britain?'', Hodder and Stoughton, 2008</ref>

A further change in 2007 raised the rate of capital gains tax to 18 per cent, which still remains a lot less than most people pay on earnings.

Cohen has non-domicile status and pays tax on just some of his earnings.

(see also Affiliations below)

==Political funding==
Cohen is said to be close to [[Tony Blair]] but closer to [[Gordon Brown]], according to Robert Peston's 2008 book, ''Who Runs Britain?''. 'On 11 October 2006, Brown hosted a party in 11 Downing Street to celebrate Bridges' initial success.'

He has contributed £1.8m to the [[Labour Party]] according to Robert Peston's 2008 book, ''Who Runs Britain?''.<ref>Robert Peston, ''Who Runs Britain?'', Hodder and Stoughton, 2008</ref>

*He pledged £100,000 to the [[Labour Party]] on 16/4/99, £100,000 in 1997.
*He received a knighthood in the 2000 New Years Honours List
*He gave a further £100,000 to the Labour Party in June 2001

[[Tony Blair]] is reported to have turned to Cohen for help with fundraising for [[Labour]] before the 2005 election<ref>The <i>Jewish Chronicle</i> 'JC Power 100: Sacks stays on top, as new names emerge'. 9th May 2008.</ref>

*Chairman of the Government's [[Tech Stars Steering Committee Taskforce]]
*Member of the DTI's [[UK Competitiveness Committee]]

==Affiliations==
*[[British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association]], ([[BVCA]]) founder and ex-Chair
*[[European Venture Capital Association]], ([[EVCA]]) founder and director
*[[City Group for Smaller Companies]] (CISCO), founder and director alongside [[Katie Morris]]. *[[EASQDAQ]], European Stock Market, founder and vice-Chairman. It deals in stocks worth more than $36 billion). He has also provided funding for
*[[Institute for National Security Studies]], Israel, board of Trustees (2009)
*[[Tradepoint Financial Networks]], provided funding for. TFN is an electronic rival to the London Stock Exchange.
*Sits on the [[CBI]]'s City Advisory Group and Wider Share Ownership Committee.
*[[The Portland Trust]] - an non-profit organisation working with Israelis and Palestinians that he co-founded in 2003 with Sir [[Harry Solomon]], former chairman and CEO of [[Hillsdown Holdings]]. <ref> The Portland Trust,[http://www.portlandtrust.org/ Homepage], accessed 20 October 2010. </ref>

He was President of the Oxford University Union and went to Harvard Business School in America. He was one of the Bioscience bosses who wrote a letter to the Financial Times in May 2001 in support of the Labour Party.

===Conferences===
*[[Ninth Herzliya Conference]] - participant.<ref>[http://www.herzliyaconference.org/eng/_Uploads/2165executivesummary09.pdf Executive Summary], 9th Herzliya Conference 2009,p.57, herzliyaconferenceorg, accessed 22 November 2012.</ref>

==Apax Partners==
Apax Partners invested in [[Autonomy]], Britain's most successful internet company, making $600 million from a $3 million investment. They are also backers of [[Jazztel]], a Spanish business phone services company and an Israeli company [[Commtouch]], an e-mail provider.

==Career==
Cohen is Chairman of hedge fund [[Portland Capital]] and founder of [[Bridges Capital]], a fund 'with a social purpose'. In 2002 he founded, and became Chairman of, [[Apax Partners & Company]], an international PE company which manages $7 billion of investment. He was knighted in 2000. Cohen left Apax Partners in 2005.<ref>Robert Peston, ''Who Runs Britain?'', Hodder and Stoughton, 2008</ref>
Before founding Apax Partners, he was a consultant with [[McKinsey]]. He is Chairman of the Government's [[Tech Stars Steering Committee Taskforce]] and a member of the DTI's [[UK Competitiveness Committee]]. He sits on the CBI's City Advisory Group and Wider Share Ownership Committee.
<ref>Taken from 'Ronald Cohen' available through search function on http://www.red-star-research.org.uk/subframe5.html</ref>

==Charity==
In 1999 Cohen set up with his wife [[The R and S Cohen Foundation]]. It aims to donate money:

::‘(a) For the advancement of education;
(b) For the relief of persons who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress as a result of local national
or International disaster or by reason of their social and economic circumstances;
(c) In promoting and encouraging for the public all aspects of the arts, including painting, sculpture
theatre and music; and
(d) Other deserving causes as the Trustees see fit.’::<ref>THE R AND S COHEN FOUNDATION TRUSTEES' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2011</ref>

The main recipients of it funds are the Portland Trust (£500,000 in 2011) and the University of Sussex (£200,000 in 2011). Along with other foundations it supported the creation at Sussex University of a Chair in Modern Israel Studies.<ref>New professor will develop modern Israel studies, http://www.sussex.ac.uk/students/newsandevents/?id=11967, 26 April 2012, Sussex News, accessed 1 March 2014</ref> The Chair will be named after [[Yossi Harel]], father of Cohen’s wife and captain of the refugee ship Exodus in 1947.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The foundation has also funded Ian Duncan Smith’s [[Centre for Social justice]], the [[New Israel Fund]] and the [[Board of deputies for British Jews]]. [[The Fellowship Fund for Students from Israel]] at Harvard Business School was established by Cohen and his wife in 2005. The fund was set for MBS fellowships for student from Israel.<ref>http://www.hbsaai.org/article.html?aid=114 accessed 1 March 2014</ref>

==References==
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The Anglo-Israel Association (AIA) is a charity founded in 1949 by Sir Wyndham Deedes, a Zionist sympathiser, the year after the foundation of the state of Israel. According to its website the AIA has 3 main objectives:

1. To support educational programmes enabling the people of both countries to deepen their understanding of each other.

2. To promote a wider understanding of Israel in the UK.

3. To foster goodwill between the two countries. <ref> The Anglo-Israel Association, http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/index.html, accessed 17 February 2014 </ref>

The AIA organises a wide range of activities ‘to promote education in particular and information in general about Israel.’<ref> http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/index.html accessed 17 February 2014 </ref> In the past, it has promoted talks by neo-conservative speaker Emanuele Ottolenghi and it has debated against the academic boycott of Israel. It has links with the Henry Jackson Society and the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).

It is partially funded by foundations, including the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust and the Lewis Family Trust, that are linked to Zionist and conservative thinks tanks.

==People==

===Wyndham Deedes===

Sir Wyndham Deedes was born in Kent, England, in 1883. In 1915 he was a brigadier general in Cairo where he worked to secure Arab support against the Turks. <ref> Spencer Tucker, ’The Encyclopaedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History’ (ABC, 2008), p. 292 </ref> From 1920 to 1922 he served as chief secretary under High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel. He strongly condemned the Arab riots of 1921 ans Deedes authorised the enlistment of Jewish volunteers to help defend Jaffa and Tel Aviv. He retired from military life in 1923 and moved to London, UK. In 1943 he founded the British Association for the Jewish National Home in Palestine. A year after the creation of the state of Israel in 1949 he formed the Anglo-Israel Association. He died in 1956.

Deedes was a deeply religious Christian and believed that the only way Christians could atone for their treatment towards the Jews was by working to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. <ref> Ibid. </ref> In 1918 he met and became close friends with Chaim Weizmnann, a Zionist leader who later became the first president of Israel. <ref> Ibid. </ref> In 1926 Deedes was invited by the Executive of the Zionist Organisation of Poland for a two week tour. <ref> http://www.jta.org/1926/12/19/archive/polish-zionists-invite-sir-wyndham-deedes </ref>

On March 14th 1927, Deedes and Weizmnann attended a banquet at the mount Royal Hotel in Canada to celebrate the opening of a local branch of Keren Hayoda, a Zionist fund-raising organisation.<ref>The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=883&dat=19270311&id=nY8cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1WEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2761,2630523, 11 March 1927, accessed 17 February 2014</ref> The same week the two friends also attended a lunch at the Commodore Hotel. According to the Jewish Daily Bulletin, Weizmann stated: ‘We Jews have no titles to confer. We have only one expression which may be properly applied to Sir Wyndham. He is one of the ‘Chassidei Umoth Ha’olam’ (Righteous men of the nations) and as such he will long be remembered.’<ref>Jewish Daily Bulletin, Sir Wyndham Deedes, Distinguished Visitor, is Feted by Zionists, http://pdfs.jta.org/1927/1927-03-21_722.pdf, accessed 17 February 2014</ref> Wyndham also claimed his support for Zionism on the basis of moral and historical reasons, stating ‘I often fail to understand why some view Zionism as a purely national movement which is totally secular and is opposed to religion. So far as Jewish life goes, the national idea and religion are so closely interwoven that they are inseparable'.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

In 2006, his nephew William Deedes wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph stating that ‘Muslims can never conform to our ways’.<ref>William Deedes, ‘Muslims can never conform to our ways' Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2006</ref>

===Officers (as of December 2012)===
*Lord P. Bew (Chairman)
*Mr M. Green (Vice-President)
*Mrs L. Hochhauser (Vice-President)
*Mr R. Bolchover (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Sir Michael Latham (Vice-President)
*Lady Sainsbury (Chairman of Council)
*Mr G.R. Pinto (Vice-President)
*MrJ. Marshall (Vice-President)
*Mr A. Epton FCA (Hon Treasurer)

===Executive Committee (Trustees)===
*Mrs J. Atkin
*Lord P. Bew (Chairman)
*Mr R. Bolchover (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Dr M. Brearley
*Mr A. Diamond
*Miss B. Dingle
*Mr A. Epton FCA (Hon Treasurer)
*Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Mr A. Reeve
*Mr W. Shawcross (resigned 4 October 2012)
*Dr A. Sher
*Mrs E. Tarling
*Mr T. Vince
*Mrs O. Polizzi

===Officers (2011)===
*The [[Paul Bew|Lord Bew]] (Chairman from 16 February 2011)
*Sir [[Andrew Burns]] KCMG (Chairman until 15 February 2011)
*Mr [[M. Green]] (Vice-President)
*Mrs [[L. Hochhauser]] (Vice-President)
*Mr [[R. Bolchover]] (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Lady Sainsbury (Chairman of Council)
*Mr [[G.R. Pinto]] (Vice-President)
*Mr [[J. Marshall]] (Vice-President)
*Mr J. Nedas FCA (Hon Treasurer until 4 April 2011)
*Mr A. Epton FCA (Hon Treasurer from 4 April 2011)<ref name="Accounts2011">[http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/accounts%202011.pdf Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2011], Anglo-Israel Association, accessed 10 March 2014.</ref>

===Executive Committee (Trustees) (2011)===
*Mrs [[J. Atkin]]
*The [[Paul Bew|Lord Bew]] (Chairman from 16 February 2011)
*Mr R. Bolchover (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Dr M. Brearley
*Mr A. Diamond
*Miss B. Dingle (joined 25 January 2011)
*Mr A. Epton FCA (Hon Treasurer from 4 April 2011)
*Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Mr A. Reeve joined 25 January 2011
*Mr W. Shawcross joined 5 July 2011
*Dr A. Sher (joined 25 January 2011)
*Mrs E. Tarling
*Mr T. Vince
*Mr G.A. Yablon (retired 5 July 2011).<ref name="Accounts2011">[http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/accounts%202011.pdf Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2011], Anglo-Israel Association, accessed 10 March 2014.</ref>

===Executive Director===

Mrs Ruth Saunders

===Lord P. Bew===
Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew (born 22 Jan. 1950) is a Northern Irish historian. He has worked at Queen's University Belfast since 1979, and is currently Professor of Irish Politics, a position he has held since 1991.<ref>Richards Huw, ‘Paul Bew: Belfast's history man’, The Guardian</ref> He was an unofficial adviser to the former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and they are both signatories of the Cambridge neoconservative think tank the Henry Jackson Society's Statement of Principles.<ref>Signatories to the Statement of Principles, http://henryjacksonsociety.org/about-the-society/signatories-to-the-statement-of-principles/ accessed 19 February 2014</ref> Bew was appointed to the House of Lords as a Life Peer in February 2007 and sits as a cross bencher.<ref>http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-bew/3832</ref> He has been chairman of AIA from February 2011.

Bew has expressed praise for the Alliance for Middle East Peace, a group of over 70 leading non-governmental organizations working to foster reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
In a debate on the European Union’s role in the Middle East peace process in January 2014, Bew stated that:
the EU should focus on what it does well—state-building and creating an environment in which Israelis and Palestinians feel comfortable in engaging with each other in areas of mutual benefit, such as water and energy. The EU currently funds the Palestine Academy for Science and Technology, and could do even more to help the high-tech companies and thousands of technology graduates in the Palestinian territories.<ref>HL Deb, 14 January 2014, c191</ref>

===Mr M. Green (Vice-President)===
Martin Green was elected deputy Chairmen of the Executive Committee, AIA in 1994.<ref>The Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/appointments-1438994.html,28 May 1994 accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===Mrs L. Hochhauser (Vice-President)===
Mrs Lilian Hochhauser was born in 1926 in the UK.<ref>https://www.duedil.com//director/901580298/lilian-hochhauser, accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman)===
Daniel Hochhauser is Kathleen Ferrier Professor of Medical Oncology at UCL. He is a consultant medical oncologist at UCLH specialising in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer. On Thursday 13 January 2011 he participated at LSE at an event around the following motion: 'This house believes in an academic boycott of Israel'. Hochauser argued against the academic boycott and the motion was defeated.<ref>http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2011/20110113t1800vOT.aspx accessed 17 February 2014</ref> In November 2012 he wrote a negativity review for Jewish Chronicles of 'The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist' by Antony Lerman.<ref>Daniel Hochauser, Book Review, http://www.thejc.com/arts/books/90167/communal-courtier-controversy, The JC, November 9, 2012, accessed 19 February 2014</ref> In 2005 he was a signatory to a letter against academic boycott that was published by The Guardian.<ref>In 2005 he was a signatory to a letter against academic boycott that was published by The Guardian.</ref>

===Mr R. Bolchover (Co-Deputy Chairman)===
Bolchover is author of ‘British Jewry and the Holocaust’, published in 1993.<ref>http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-british-history/british-jewry-and-holocaust, accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===Lady Sainsbury (Chairman of Council)===
Lady Susan Sainsbury, was appointed as the new chairman of the Anglo-Israel Association in 2001. She is the wife of former Conservative minister Sir Timothy Sainsbury, who was also President of the Conservative Friends of Israel from 1997 until 2005.<ref>http://thepeerage.com/p20556.htm accessed 19 February 2014</ref>

===Mr G.R. Pinto (Vice-President)===
Mr George Richard Pinto was born in the UK in 1929 and has been the Director of Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies since 1991.3 In the third quarter of 2013 he donated £10,269 to the Conservative Party.<ref>Search the Money, ‘Conservative Party donors revealed for Q3 2013’, http://searchthemoney.com/blog/7 accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===Mr J. Marshall (Vice-President)===
John Leslie Marshall (born August 19, 1940) is a British Conservative politician. He was MEP for London North from 1979 to 1989. John Marshall was Mayor of the London Borough of Barnet in the Municipal year 2008-2009. He was appointed vice president of AIA in 1994.<ref>Search the Money, ‘Conservative Party donors revealed for Q3 2013’, http://searchthemoney.com/blog/7 accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===William Hartley Hume Shawcross===
William Shawcross is (born 28 May 1946, Sussex) is the Chairman of the Charity Commission for England and Wales and a British writer and commentator.<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/appointments-1438994.html4</ref>

Shawcross was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford. He was a member of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees's Informal Advisory Group from 1995 to 2000. From 1997 to 2003 he was a member of the BBC World Service Advisory Council. In 2008 he became a Patron of the Wiener Library and in 2011 he joined the board of the Anglo-Israel Association and was appointed to the board of the Henry Jackson Society.<ref>http://www.williamshawcross.com/index.php?page=cv accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

His daughter Eleanor from his second wife Michal Levin is a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to George Osborne.<ref>Ane Merrick, ‘George Osborne aide too posh for future tory leader’, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-osborne-aide-too-posh-for-future-tory-leader-8537668.html, The Independent, 17 March 2013, accessed 17 February 2014</ref> She had previously worked on Boris Johnson's mayor campaign. Eleanor is married to Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, the chief executive of the clothing retailer Next and a Conservative life peer.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He is the son of former Next chairman David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, also a Conservative life peer.

Shawcross resigned in 2012 from the AIA and Henry Jackson board to become Chair of the Charity Commission.

==Activities==

The AIA organises a wide range of activities ‘to promote education in particular and information in general about Israel.’<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/index.html accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===Ambassadors’ Round Table===
Since 2009 it has organised every year an Ambassadors roundtable on a specific topic, bringing together academics, MPS, diplomats and scientist from both Israel and Britain. The 4th Ambassadors' Roundtable was held on Renewable Technology on 16 October 2012 in the Great Gallery in Lancaster House. The conference, opened by AlA's Chairman Lord Bew, was chaired by Oliver Morton, senior Editor of The Economist and the keynote speech was given by Nick Butler, Professor and Chair of the Kings Policy Institute. The Opening Remarks were given by Matthew Gould, UK's Ambassador to Israel, and HE Daniel Taub, Ambassador of Israel to the UK.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

The Third Ambassadors’ Round Table held on the 3 November 2011 was titled ‘The Challenges and Opportunities of Moving from Innovation to Entrepreneurship: The UK and Israeli Perspective’.

The Second Ambassadors Roundtable, held on Tuesday 26th October 2010 looked at problems and issues relating to media coverage of Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and wider Middle East and brought together a journalists, media commentators, scholars and parliamentarians from Israel and the UK. Present was also Nachman Shai MK, Kadima Party Member who commented:

‘The conference was very important and focused on a very critical issue, how the media deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the way Israel is portrayed by the liberal press in Britain. We have a lot of questions on how the British media treats Israel and why Israel is treated differently. The conference delved into these issues and provided an excellent insight into these concerns.’<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===Annual Dinner===

Each year AIA holds an Annual Dinner attracting over 400 guests and supporters prominent in British society. The 2012 Annual Dinner hold at the Savoy Hotel generated an income of £55,781.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref> The guest speaker of the night was Major General Aharon Zeevi Farkash the former head of Israeli Military Intelligence. According to the AIA, website, Major Farkash’s main concern was that the West did not realise that its true enemy is Radical Sunni Islam.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 19 February 2014</ref> The Israeli Ambassador, Daniel Taub was also present.

===Speakers’ Programme===

From 2006 to 2010, the AIA organised a programme of regular speaking tours every two years by Prof Shai Feldman of Brandeis Univeity. He was formerly Head of the Jaffa Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Its current director, General Amos Yadlin who previously served as head of Military Intelligence and deputy commander of the Israeli Air Force<ref>INNS, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=508 accessed 20 February 2014</ref>, gave a round table briefing in 2012 for the AIA on 'The Security Challenges of the State of Israel in the 21st Century with a focus on the Iranian Nuclear Threat'<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 20012</ref>

Feldman presently serves on the Board of Directors of Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2009</ref> Feldman received from AIA £33,604 in 2009 and £81,556 in 2010.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2009</ref> It is not clear if this money went all to Friedman or also for general organisation expenses. In 2012, Feldman gave lectures at the Conservative Middle East Council, Henry Jackson Society and the Israel Diaspora Trust.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref>

In 2010, AIA started collaboration with Prof. Benny Morris from Ben Gurion University and Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2010</ref> In 2011 Benny Morris gave lectures sponsored by AIA at the London School of Economics and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 19 Fberuary 2014</ref>

Ottolenghi has written op-eds for the National Review, New York Sun, Jerusalem Post, the Guardian, mostly focusing on Israel and Iran. He claimed in 2003 on The Guardian that ‘anti-zionism is anti-semitism’, writing: 'by negating Zionism, by claiming that Zionism equals racism, goes further and denies the Jews the right to identify, understand and imagine themselves - and consequently behave as - a nation. Anti-Zionists deny Jews a right that they all too readily bestow on others, first of all Palestinians.'<ref>Emanuele Ottolenghi, 'Anti Zionism is anti-semitism', http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/nov/29/comment, The Guardian, 29 November 2003 accessed 19 February 2014</ref>

He has appeared twice at the UK House of Commons invited by the Henry Jackson Society and on both occasions he pushed for attacks/ sanctions against Iran.<ref>The latest Henry Jackson Society was with Ottolenghi as main speaker was on 1 November 2011. The previous appearance was 6 February 2008.</ref> In 2011 Ottolenghi also spoke at Pembroke College (Cambridge), Lincoln College (Oxford) and at the University of York.

AIA sponsored the programme ‘Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects’, a series of lectures, workshops and conferences at the University of Oxford. Other supporters of the programme are The Rothschild Foundation Europe, Lewis Family Charitable Trust and The Porter Foundation.<ref>http://talks.ox.ac.uk/show/index/1011 accessed 14 February 2014</ref> The Lewis Family Charitable Trust also funds the AIA.

===AIA/Sternberg Award===

The AIA/Sternberg is an annual award given for lasting contribution to the furtherance of good relations between Britain and Israel’.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 20 February 2014</ref> The prize has a value of £1000.

Recipients to date:

*Moshe and Hannah Raviv. Moshe Raviv was ambassador to Israel from 1993 to 1997. He is the author of 'Israel at Fifty: Five Decades of Struggle for Peace'.<ref>https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/moshe-raviv/israel-at-fifty/ accessed 21 February 2014</ref>
*Lady Sainsbury and Patricia Park
*Canon Andrew White
*Lady Cocks
*Sir Patrick Moberly and Lilian Hochhauser. Sir Patrick was Ambassador to Israel, from 1981 to1984, and then continued as Ambassador to South Africa from 1984 to 1988.
2012 winner: David Pryce-Jones.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/lib/ambassadors%20brochure.pdf accessed 19 February 2014</ref> Born on 15 February 1936 Vienna, Austria) Jones is a conservative British author and commentator. In his 1989 book 'The Closed Circle', Pryce-Jones examined what he considered to be the reasons for the backward state of the Arab world. A review described the book as more of an 'indictment' than an examination of the Arab world. Pryce-Jones considers as a negative factor in Arab society the influence of Islam, which hinders efforts to build a Western style society where the family and clan are not the dominant political unit. 3In his acceptance speech for the award he stated:

Throughout the continent, the lingering death of the basic instinct of self-preservation is in complete political, intellectual and emotional opposition to Israel’s will to survive. The vilification and criminalisation of Israel for defending itself has the further consequence of making Jews out to be destroyers of the peace, and that is an indispensable step in normalising the 1930s and the Holocaust. Israel is currently presented by Islamism and its supporters with a test greater than any other in the state’s history, but it has the life-force to deal with whatever materialises.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/lib/david%20pryce.pdf accessed 21 February 2014</ref>

===Scholarships===
21 scholarships were granted in 2012.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/lib/david%20pryce.pdf accessed 21 February 2014</ref> In 2011, Daniel Hochhauser, vice chairman of AIA, debated against the academic boycott of Israel in an event at LSE.

===Wyndham Deedes Memorial Travel Scholarship===
The Anglo-Israel Association annually awards a limited number of travel scholarships to Israel. The objective of the awards is to enable graduates of British universities, who are normally resident in the UK to make an intensive study of some aspect, (sociological, scientific, cultural, economic, etc.) of life in Israel.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/scholarships.html accessed 18 February 2014</ref>

===Kenneth Lindsay Scholarship Trust===
The Kenneth Lindsay Scholarship Trust awards grants to enable students from Israel to advance their education in any subject at universities and institutions of higher learning in the UK. The awards attempt to encourage close collaboration between individuals of both countries. .

===FUNDING===

The total fund balances of the AIA on 31 December 2012 were £683,306.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref> Of this amount, £577,880 belong to the MCA Endowment Fund, ‘a separate fund for the purpose of promoting education in particular and information in general about Israel’. The donor has specified that the capital, which is to be invested on professional advice in order to obtain the maximum long-term total return may be spent provided that ‘the total of income and realised and unrealised gains spent in any full financial year of the Association does not exceed 8% of the original grant of £523,000 at 31 December 2000’.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref>

The current level of unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets is £120,251.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref>

The total incoming resource in 2011 was £186,800 and £141,236 in 2012.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref>
In 2012, £51,387 came from donations. £55,781 came from the annual dinner, £2,210 from subscriptions, £6,000 from patrons and £23,374 from Investment income.
The total expenditure of the AIA in 2012 was £168,308. Of this sum, £104,742 was spent on 'Promoting education about Israel', £24,744 on the Ambassador Round Table, £10,425 on Meetings, Briefings & Conferences, £ 5,285 on clergy visits in Israel, £ 8,670 on AIA magazines, and £5000 on grants.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref>

===The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust===
The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust is a charity run by Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale, who served as Thatcher‘s chief of staff.<ref>http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26767 accessed 18 February 2014</ref>
Simon Wolfson, son of Charles Wolfson, is the chief executive of the clothing retailer Next and a Conservative life peer. He was named by the Daily Telegraph as the 37th most important British conservative in 2007.<ref>Amy Wilson, ‘Simon Wolfson: Next chief who saw slowdown coming’, The Daily Telegraph, 6 January 2009</ref> He is married to Eleanor Shawcross who is an economic advisor to George Osborne. On 18 June 2010, Wolfson was created Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise, of Aspley Guise in the County of Bedfordshire, and was introduced in the House of Lords on 6 July 2010.<ref>House of Lords Business, 22 June 2010</ref>
The Charles Wolfson Trust was set up in 1960 to provide grants ‘with particular, but not exclusive, regard to the needs of the Jewish community’.<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April2009, p.3</ref> The trust has funded right-wing think tanks including Civitas, Policy Exchanges, the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Research Trust.<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April2007, p.23.</ref>
In 2007 the trust donated £5,000 to the AIA.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

G.R.P Charitable Trust
In 2011 the Trust made donations totalling £168,900.00. The largest donations in the year were £50,000.00 to the Jerusalem Foundation, £25,000.00 to Traditional Alternatives Foundation, £15,000.00 to Youth Aliyah - Child Rescue, £14,000.00 to the Weizmann Institute Foundation and £10,000.00 each to the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the United Jewish Israel Appeal.<ref>THE G.R.P. CHARITABLE TRUST STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5 APRIL 2011,
p.2</ref>
It has made regular donations to AIA (£13,500 in 2009, £2,125.00 in 2011 and £2,000.00 in 2012).

Lewis Family Charitable Trust
The Lewis Family Charitable Trust, constitute in 1969, is almost entirely funded from the Lewis Trust Group, an investment company that operates retail stores, real estate and hotels.<ref>LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST TRUSTEES' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2012, p1</ref>
From 12 June 2008, the trust exists to implement the charitable intentions of the family of David Lewis. David Lewis (June 2 1924- August 12 2011) was also a key supporter of the Israel Centre for Social and Economic Progress, the country’s main free-market think tank, and of the Conservative Friends of Israel.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8702861/David-Lewis.html15 Aug 2011 accessed 17 February 2014</ref>
The Lewis Family Charitable Trust gave £10,000 to Policy Exchange in 2007/8, £20,000 in 2008/9 and £10,000 in 2009/10.<ref>Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 May 2010.</ref> It has also funded Palestinian Media Watch, the United Jewish Israel Appeal and the Zionist Federation. It donated $10,000 to AIA in 2008.<ref>Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 May 2008</ref>

Stanley Kalms Foundation
The main objectives of the Foundation are the ‘encouragement of orthodox Jewish education in the UK and in Israel and to be particularly involved in the granting of scholarships, fellowships and research grants. Other activities include support for the arts and medicine and other programmes both secular and religious.’<ref>THE STANLEY KALMS FOUNDATION TRUSTEES' REPORT AND ACCOUNTS For the Year Ended
5 APRIL 2013</ref> The Foundation was created by Lord and Lady Kalms by a Trust Deed on 4 July 1989.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Harold Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms, Kt, (born 21 November 1931) is the life president and former chairman of DSG International plc (formerly Dixons Group). Lord Kalms was treasurer of the Conservative Party 2001-3 and the Director of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) think tank from 1991 to 2001.<ref>http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-kalms/3668 accessed 17 February 2014</ref>
Lord Kalms attacked William Hague for his position on the Israel attack in Lebanon, calling him an ’ignorant armchair critic’ and that his remarks were ‘downright dangerous’<ref>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2297096,00.html</ref>
The Foundation donated £5000 to AI in 20013.<ref>THE STANLEY KALMS FOUNDATION TRUSTEES' REPORT AND ACCOUNTS For the Year Ended
5 APRIL 2013, p. 7</ref>

==Notes==
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[[Category:UK]]

Anglo-Israel Association

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Matthew Burnett-Stuart:

The Anglo-Israel Association (AIA) is a charity founded in 1949 by Sir Wyndham Deedes, a Zionist sympathiser, the year after the foundation of the state of Israel. According to its website the AIA has 3 main objectives:

1. To support educational programmes enabling the people of both countries to deepen their understanding of each other.

2. To promote a wider understanding of Israel in the UK.

3. To foster goodwill between the two countries. <ref> The Anglo-Israel Association, http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/index.html, accessed 17 February 2014 </ref>

The AIA organises a wide range of activities ‘to promote education in particular and information in general about Israel.’<ref> http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/index.html accessed 17 February 2014 </ref> In the past, it has promoted talks by neo-conservative speaker Emanuele Ottolenghi and it has debated against the academic boycott of Israel. It has links with the Henry Jackson Society and the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).

It is partially funded by foundations, including the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust and the Lewis Family Trust, that are linked to Zionist and conservative thinks tanks.

==People==

===Wyndham Deedes===

Sir Wyndham Deedes was born in Kent, England, in 1883. In 1915 he was a brigadier general in Cairo where he worked to secure Arab support against the Turks. <ref> Spencer Tucker, ’The Encyclopaedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History’ (ABC, 2008), p. 292 </ref> From 1920 to 1922 he served as chief secretary under High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel. He strongly condemned the Arab riots of 1921 ans Deedes authorised the enlistment of Jewish volunteers to help defend Jaffa and Tel Aviv. He retired from military life in 1923 and moved to London, UK. In 1943 he founded the British Association for the Jewish National Home in Palestine. A year after the creation of the state of Israel in 1949 he formed the Anglo-Israel Association. He died in 1956.

Deedes was a deeply religious Christian and believed that the only way Christians could atone for their treatment towards the Jews was by working to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. <ref> Ibid. </ref> In 1918 he met and became close friends with Chaim Weizmnann, a Zionist leader who later became the first president of Israel. <ref> Ibid. </ref> In 1926 Deedes was invited by the Executive of the Zionist Organisation of Poland for a two week tour. <ref> http://www.jta.org/1926/12/19/archive/polish-zionists-invite-sir-wyndham-deedes </ref>

On March 14th 1927, Deedes and Weizmnann attended a banquet at the mount Royal Hotel in Canada to celebrate the opening of a local branch of Keren Hayoda, a Zionist fund-raising organisation.<ref>The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=883&dat=19270311&id=nY8cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1WEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2761,2630523, 11 March 1927, accessed 17 February 2014</ref> The same week the two friends also attended a lunch at the Commodore Hotel. According to the Jewish Daily Bulletin, Weizmann stated: ‘We Jews have no titles to confer. We have only one expression which may be properly applied to Sir Wyndham. He is one of the ‘Chassidei Umoth Ha’olam’ (Righteous men of the nations) and as such he will long be remembered.’<ref>Jewish Daily Bulletin, Sir Wyndham Deedes, Distinguished Visitor, is Feted by Zionists, http://pdfs.jta.org/1927/1927-03-21_722.pdf, accessed 17 February 2014</ref> Wyndham also claimed his support for Zionism on the basis of moral and historical reasons, stating ‘I often fail to understand why some view Zionism as a purely national movement which is totally secular and is opposed to religion. So far as Jewish life goes, the national idea and religion are so closely interwoven that they are inseparable'.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

In 2006, his nephew William Deedes wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph stating that ‘Muslims can never conform to our ways’.<ref>William Deedes, ‘Muslims can never conform to our ways' Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2006</ref>

===Officers (as of December 2012)===
*Lord P. Bew (Chairman)
*Mr M. Green (Vice-President)
*Mrs L. Hochhauser (Vice-President)
*Mr R. Bolchover (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Sir Michael Latham (Vice-President)
*Lady Sainsbury (Chairman of Council)
*Mr G.R. Pinto (Vice-President)
*MrJ. Marshall (Vice-President)
*Mr A. Epton FCA (Hon Treasurer)

===Executive Committee (Trustees)===
*Mrs J. Atkin
*Lord P. Bew (Chairman)
*Mr R. Bolchover (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Dr M. Brearley
*Mr A. Diamond
*Miss B. Dingle
*Mr A. Epton FCA (Hon Treasurer)
*Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Mr A. Reeve
*Mr W. Shawcross (resigned 4 October 2012)
*Dr A. Sher
*Mrs E. Tarling
*Mr T. Vince
*Mrs O. Polizzi

===Officers (2011)===
*The [[Paul Bew|Lord Bew]] (Chairman from 16 February 2011)
*Sir [[Andrew Burns]] KCMG (Chairman until 15 February 2011)
*Mr [[M. Green]] (Vice-President)
*Mrs [[L. Hochhauser]] (Vice-President)
*Mr [[R. Bolchover]] (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Lady Sainsbury (Chairman of Council)
*Mr [[G.R. Pinto]] (Vice-President)
*Mr [[J. Marshall]] (Vice-President)
*Mr J. Nedas FCA (Hon Treasurer until 4 April 2011)
*Mr A. Epton FCA (Hon Treasurer from 4 April 2011)<ref name="Accounts2011">[http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/accounts%202011.pdf Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2011], Anglo-Israel Association, accessed 10 March 2014.</ref>

===Executive Committee (Trustees) (2011)===
*Mrs [[J. Atkin]]
*The [[Paul Bew|Lord Bew]] (Chairman from 16 February 2011)
*Mr R. Bolchover (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Dr M. Brearley
*Mr A. Diamond
*Miss B. Dingle (joined 25 January 2011)
*Mr A. Epton FCA (Hon Treasurer from 4 April 2011)
*Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman)
*Mr A. Reeve joined 25 January 2011
*Mr W. Shawcross joined 5 July 2011
*Dr A. Sher (joined 25 January 2011)
*Mrs E. Tarling
*Mr T. Vince
*Mr G.A. Yablon (retired 5 July 2011).<ref name="Accounts2011">[http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/accounts%202011.pdf Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2011], Anglo-Israel Association, accessed 10 March 2014.</ref>

===Executive Director===

Mrs Ruth Saunders

===Lord P. Bew===
Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew (born 22 Jan. 1950) is a Northern Irish historian. He has worked at Queen's University Belfast since 1979, and is currently Professor of Irish Politics, a position he has held since 1991.<ref>Richards Huw, ‘Paul Bew: Belfast's history man’, The Guardian</ref> He was an unofficial adviser to the former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and they are both signatories of the Cambridge neoconservative think tank the Henry Jackson Society's Statement of Principles.<ref>Signatories to the Statement of Principles, http://henryjacksonsociety.org/about-the-society/signatories-to-the-statement-of-principles/ accessed 19 February 2014</ref> Bew was appointed to the House of Lords as a Life Peer in February 2007 and sits as a cross bencher.<ref>http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-bew/3832</ref> He has been chairman of AIA from February 2011.

Bew has expressed praise for the Alliance for Middle East Peace, a group of over 70 leading non-governmental organizations working to foster reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
In a debate on the European Union’s role in the Middle East peace process in January 2014, Bew stated that:
the EU should focus on what it does well—state-building and creating an environment in which Israelis and Palestinians feel comfortable in engaging with each other in areas of mutual benefit, such as water and energy. The EU currently funds the Palestine Academy for Science and Technology, and could do even more to help the high-tech companies and thousands of technology graduates in the Palestinian territories.<ref>HL Deb, 14 January 2014, c191</ref>

===Mr M. Green (Vice-President)===
Martin Green was elected deputy Chairmen of the Executive Committee, AIA in 1994.<ref>The Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/appointments-1438994.html,28 May 1994 accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===Mrs L. Hochhauser (Vice-President)===
Mrs Lilian Hochhauser was born in 1926 in the UK.<ref>https://www.duedil.com//director/901580298/lilian-hochhauser, accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===Professor D. Hochhauser (Co-Deputy Chairman)===
Daniel Hochhauser is Kathleen Ferrier Professor of Medical Oncology at UCL. He is a consultant medical oncologist at UCLH specialising in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer. On Thursday 13 January 2011 he participated at LSE at an event around the following motion: 'This house believes in an academic boycott of Israel'. Hochauser argued against the academic boycott and the motion was defeated.<ref>http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2011/20110113t1800vOT.aspx accessed 17 February 2014</ref> In November 2012 he wrote a negativity review for Jewish Chronicles of 'The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist' by Antony Lerman.<ref>Daniel Hochauser, Book Review, http://www.thejc.com/arts/books/90167/communal-courtier-controversy, The JC, November 9, 2012, accessed 19 February 2014</ref> In 2005 he was a signatory to a letter against academic boycott that was published by The Guardian.<ref>In 2005 he was a signatory to a letter against academic boycott that was published by The Guardian.</ref>

===Mr R. Bolchover (Co-Deputy Chairman)===
Bolchover is author of ‘British Jewry and the Holocaust’, published in 1993.<ref>http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-british-history/british-jewry-and-holocaust, accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===Lady Sainsbury (Chairman of Council)===
Lady Susan Sainsbury, was appointed as the new chairman of the Anglo-Israel Association in 2001. She is the wife of former Conservative minister Sir Timothy Sainsbury, who was also President of the Conservative Friends of Israel from 1997 until 2005.<ref>http://thepeerage.com/p20556.htm accessed 19 February 2014</ref>

===Mr G.R. Pinto (Vice-President)===
Mr George Richard Pinto was born in the UK in 1929 and has been the Director of Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies since 1991.3 In the third quarter of 2013 he donated £10,269 to the Conservative Party.<ref>Search the Money, ‘Conservative Party donors revealed for Q3 2013’, http://searchthemoney.com/blog/7 accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===Mr J. Marshall (Vice-President)===
John Leslie Marshall (born August 19, 1940) is a British Conservative politician. He was MEP for London North from 1979 to 1989. John Marshall was Mayor of the London Borough of Barnet in the Municipal year 2008-2009. He was appointed vice president of AIA in 1994.<ref>Search the Money, ‘Conservative Party donors revealed for Q3 2013’, http://searchthemoney.com/blog/7 accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===William Hartley Hume Shawcross===
William Shawcross is (born 28 May 1946, Sussex) is the Chairman of the Charity Commission for England and Wales and a British writer and commentator.<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/appointments-1438994.html4</ref>

Shawcross was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford. He was a member of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees's Informal Advisory Group from 1995 to 2000. From 1997 to 2003 he was a member of the BBC World Service Advisory Council. In 2008 he became a Patron of the Wiener Library and in 2011 he joined the board of the Anglo-Israel Association and was appointed to the board of the Henry Jackson Society.<ref>http://www.williamshawcross.com/index.php?page=cv accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

His daughter Eleanor from his second wife Michal Levin is a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to George Osborne.<ref>Ane Merrick, ‘George Osborne aide too posh for future tory leader’, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-osborne-aide-too-posh-for-future-tory-leader-8537668.html, The Independent, 17 March 2013, accessed 17 February 2014</ref> She had previously worked on Boris Johnson's mayor campaign. Eleanor is married to Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, the chief executive of the clothing retailer Next and a Conservative life peer.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He is the son of former Next chairman David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, also a Conservative life peer.

Shawcross resigned in 2012 from the AIA and Henry Jackson board to become Chair of the Charity Commission.

==Activities==

The AIA organises a wide range of activities ‘to promote education in particular and information in general about Israel.’<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/index.html accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===Ambassadors’ Round Table===
Since 2009 it has organised every year an Ambassadors roundtable on a specific topic, bringing together academics, MPS, diplomats and scientist from both Israel and Britain. The 4th Ambassadors' Roundtable was held on Renewable Technology on 16 October 2012 in the Great Gallery in Lancaster House. The conference, opened by AlA's Chairman Lord Bew, was chaired by Oliver Morton, senior Editor of The Economist and the keynote speech was given by Nick Butler, Professor and Chair of the Kings Policy Institute. The Opening Remarks were given by Matthew Gould, UK's Ambassador to Israel, and HE Daniel Taub, Ambassador of Israel to the UK.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

The Third Ambassadors’ Round Table held on the 3 November 2011 was titled ‘The Challenges and Opportunities of Moving from Innovation to Entrepreneurship: The UK and Israeli Perspective’.

The Second Ambassadors Roundtable, held on Tuesday 26th October 2010 looked at problems and issues relating to media coverage of Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and wider Middle East and brought together a journalists, media commentators, scholars and parliamentarians from Israel and the UK. Present was also Nachman Shai MK, Kadima Party Member who commented:

‘The conference was very important and focused on a very critical issue, how the media deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the way Israel is portrayed by the liberal press in Britain. We have a lot of questions on how the British media treats Israel and why Israel is treated differently. The conference delved into these issues and provided an excellent insight into these concerns.’<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 17 February 2014</ref>

===Annual Dinner===

Each year AIA holds an Annual Dinner attracting over 400 guests and supporters prominent in British society. The 2012 Annual Dinner hold at the Savoy Hotel generated an income of £55,781.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref> The guest speaker of the night was Major General Aharon Zeevi Farkash the former head of Israeli Military Intelligence. According to the AIA, website, Major Farkash’s main concern was that the West did not realise that its true enemy is Radical Sunni Islam.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 19 February 2014</ref> The Israeli Ambassador, Daniel Taub was also present.

===Speakers’ Programme===

From 2006 to 2010, the AIA organised a programme of regular speaking tours every two years by Prof Shai Feldman of Brandeis Univeity. He was formerly Head of the Jaffa Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Its current director, General Amos Yadlin who previously served as head of Military Intelligence and deputy commander of the Israeli Air Force<ref>INNS, http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=508 accessed 20 February 2014</ref>, gave a round table briefing in 2012 for the AIA on 'The Security Challenges of the State of Israel in the 21st Century with a focus on the Iranian Nuclear Threat'<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 20012</ref>

Feldman presently serves on the Board of Directors of Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2009</ref> Feldman received from AIA £33,604 in 2009 and £81,556 in 2010.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2009</ref> It is not clear if this money went all to Friedman or also for general organisation expenses. In 2012, Feldman gave lectures at the Conservative Middle East Council, Henry Jackson Society and the Israel Diaspora Trust.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref>

In 2010, AIA started collaboration with Prof. Benny Morris from Ben Gurion University and Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2010</ref> In 2011 Benny Morris gave lectures sponsored by AIA at the London School of Economics and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 19 Fberuary 2014</ref>

Ottolenghi has written op-eds for the National Review, New York Sun, Jerusalem Post, the Guardian, mostly focusing on Israel and Iran. He claimed in 2003 on The Guardian that ‘anti-zionism is anti-semitism’, writing:

by negating Zionism, by claiming that Zionism equals racism, goes further and denies the Jews the right to identify, understand and imagine themselves - and consequently behave as - a nation. Anti-Zionists deny Jews a right that they all too readily bestow on others, first of all Palestinians.<ref>Emanuele Ottolenghi, 'Anti Zionism is anti-semitism', http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/nov/29/comment, The Guardian, 29 November 2003 accessed 19 February 2014</ref>

He has appeared twice at the UK House of Commons invited by the Henry Jackson Society and on both occasions he pushed for attacks/ sanctions against Iran.<ref>The latest Henry Jackson Society was with Ottolenghi as main speaker was on 1 November 2011. The previous appearance was 6 February 2008.</ref> In 2011 Ottolenghi also spoke at Pembroke College (Cambridge), Lincoln College (Oxford) and at the University of York

AIA sponsored the programme ‘Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects’, a series of lectures, workshops and conferences at the University of Oxford. Other supporters of the programme are The Rothschild Foundation Europe, Lewis Family Charitable Trust and The Porter Foundation.<ref>http://talks.ox.ac.uk/show/index/1011 accessed 14 February 2014</ref> The Lewis Family Charitable Trust also funds the AIA.

===AIA/Sternberg Award===

The AIA/Sternberg is an annual award given for lasting contribution to the furtherance of good relations between Britain and Israel’.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/events.html accessed 20 February 2014</ref> The prize has a value of £1000.

Recipients to date:

*Moshe and Hannah Raviv. Moshe Raviv was ambassador to Israel from 1993 to 1997. He is the author of 'Israel at Fifty: Five Decades of Struggle for Peace'.<ref>https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/moshe-raviv/israel-at-fifty/ accessed 21 February 2014</ref>
*Lady Sainsbury and Patricia Park
*Canon Andrew White
*Lady Cocks
*Sir Patrick Moberly and Lilian Hochhauser. Sir Patrick was Ambassador to Israel, from 1981 to1984, and then continued as Ambassador to South Africa from 1984 to 1988.
2012 winner: David Pryce-Jones.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/lib/ambassadors%20brochure.pdf accessed 19 February 2014</ref> Born on 15 February 1936 Vienna, Austria) Jones is a conservative British author and commentator. In his 1989 book 'The Closed Circle', Pryce-Jones examined what he considered to be the reasons for the backward state of the Arab world. A review described the book as more of an 'indictment' than an examination of the Arab world. Pryce-Jones considers as a negative factor in Arab society the influence of Islam, which hinders efforts to build a Western style society where the family and clan are not the dominant political unit. 3In his acceptance speech for the award he stated:

Throughout the continent, the lingering death of the basic instinct of self-preservation is in complete political, intellectual and emotional opposition to Israel’s will to survive. The vilification and criminalisation of Israel for defending itself has the further consequence of making Jews out to be destroyers of the peace, and that is an indispensable step in normalising the 1930s and the Holocaust. Israel is currently presented by Islamism and its supporters with a test greater than any other in the state’s history, but it has the life-force to deal with whatever materialises.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/lib/david%20pryce.pdf accessed 21 February 2014</ref>

===Scholarships===
21 scholarships were granted in 2012.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/lib/david%20pryce.pdf accessed 21 February 2014</ref> In 2011, Daniel Hochhauser, vice chairman of AIA, debated against the academic boycott of Israel in an event at LSE.

===Wyndham Deedes Memorial Travel Scholarship===
The Anglo-Israel Association annually awards a limited number of travel scholarships to Israel. The objective of the awards is to enable graduates of British universities, who are normally resident in the UK to make an intensive study of some aspect, (sociological, scientific, cultural, economic, etc.) of life in Israel.<ref>http://www.angloisraelassociation.com/scholarships.html accessed 18 February 2014</ref>

===Kenneth Lindsay Scholarship Trust===
The Kenneth Lindsay Scholarship Trust awards grants to enable students from Israel to advance their education in any subject at universities and institutions of higher learning in the UK. The awards attempt to encourage close collaboration between individuals of both countries. .

===FUNDING===

The total fund balances of the AIA on 31 December 2012 were £683,306.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref> Of this amount, £577,880 belong to the MCA Endowment Fund, ‘a separate fund for the purpose of promoting education in particular and information in general about Israel’. The donor has specified that the capital, which is to be invested on professional advice in order to obtain the maximum long-term total return may be spent provided that ‘the total of income and realised and unrealised gains spent in any full financial year of the Association does not exceed 8% of the original grant of £523,000 at 31 December 2000’.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref>

The current level of unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets is £120,251.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref>

The total incoming resource in 2011 was £186,800 and £141,236 in 2012.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref>
In 2012, £51,387 came from donations. £55,781 came from the annual dinner, £2,210 from subscriptions, £6,000 from patrons and £23,374 from Investment income.
The total expenditure of the AIA in 2012 was £168,308. Of this sum, £104,742 was spent on 'Promoting education about Israel', £24,744 on the Ambassador Round Table, £10,425 on Meetings, Briefings & Conferences, £ 5,285 on clergy visits in Israel, £ 8,670 on AIA magazines, and £5000 on grants.<ref>Anglo-Israel Association Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2012</ref>

===The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust===
The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust is a charity run by Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale, who served as Thatcher‘s chief of staff.<ref>http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26767 accessed 18 February 2014</ref>
Simon Wolfson, son of Charles Wolfson, is the chief executive of the clothing retailer Next and a Conservative life peer. He was named by the Daily Telegraph as the 37th most important British conservative in 2007.<ref>Amy Wilson, ‘Simon Wolfson: Next chief who saw slowdown coming’, The Daily Telegraph, 6 January 2009</ref> He is married to Eleanor Shawcross who is an economic advisor to George Osborne. On 18 June 2010, Wolfson was created Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise, of Aspley Guise in the County of Bedfordshire, and was introduced in the House of Lords on 6 July 2010.<ref>House of Lords Business, 22 June 2010</ref>
The Charles Wolfson Trust was set up in 1960 to provide grants ‘with particular, but not exclusive, regard to the needs of the Jewish community’.<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April2009, p.3</ref> The trust has funded right-wing think tanks including Civitas, Policy Exchanges, the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Research Trust.<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April2007, p.23.</ref>
In 2007 the trust donated £5,000 to the AIA.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

G.R.P Charitable Trust
In 2011 the Trust made donations totalling £168,900.00. The largest donations in the year were £50,000.00 to the Jerusalem Foundation, £25,000.00 to Traditional Alternatives Foundation, £15,000.00 to Youth Aliyah - Child Rescue, £14,000.00 to the Weizmann Institute Foundation and £10,000.00 each to the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the United Jewish Israel Appeal.<ref>THE G.R.P. CHARITABLE TRUST STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5 APRIL 2011,
p.2</ref>
It has made regular donations to AIA (£13,500 in 2009, £2,125.00 in 2011 and £2,000.00 in 2012).

Lewis Family Charitable Trust
The Lewis Family Charitable Trust, constitute in 1969, is almost entirely funded from the Lewis Trust Group, an investment company that operates retail stores, real estate and hotels.<ref>LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST TRUSTEES' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2012, p1</ref>
From 12 June 2008, the trust exists to implement the charitable intentions of the family of David Lewis. David Lewis (June 2 1924- August 12 2011) was also a key supporter of the Israel Centre for Social and Economic Progress, the country’s main free-market think tank, and of the Conservative Friends of Israel.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8702861/David-Lewis.html15 Aug 2011 accessed 17 February 2014</ref>
The Lewis Family Charitable Trust gave £10,000 to Policy Exchange in 2007/8, £20,000 in 2008/9 and £10,000 in 2009/10.<ref>Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 May 2010.</ref> It has also funded Palestinian Media Watch, the United Jewish Israel Appeal and the Zionist Federation. It donated $10,000 to AIA in 2008.<ref>Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 May 2008</ref>

Stanley Kalms Foundation
The main objectives of the Foundation are the ‘encouragement of orthodox Jewish education in the UK and in Israel and to be particularly involved in the granting of scholarships, fellowships and research grants. Other activities include support for the arts and medicine and other programmes both secular and religious.’<ref>THE STANLEY KALMS FOUNDATION TRUSTEES' REPORT AND ACCOUNTS For the Year Ended
5 APRIL 2013</ref> The Foundation was created by Lord and Lady Kalms by a Trust Deed on 4 July 1989.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Harold Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms, Kt, (born 21 November 1931) is the life president and former chairman of DSG International plc (formerly Dixons Group). Lord Kalms was treasurer of the Conservative Party 2001-3 and the Director of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) think tank from 1991 to 2001.<ref>http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-kalms/3668 accessed 17 February 2014</ref>
Lord Kalms attacked William Hague for his position on the Israel attack in Lebanon, calling him an ’ignorant armchair critic’ and that his remarks were ‘downright dangerous’<ref>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2297096,00.html</ref>
The Foundation donated £5000 to AI in 20013.<ref>THE STANLEY KALMS FOUNDATION TRUSTEES' REPORT AND ACCOUNTS For the Year Ended
5 APRIL 2013, p. 7</ref>

==Notes==
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[[Category:UK]]

Matthew Burnett-Stuart:

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'''Bell Pottinger Communications''' (a subsidiary of [[Chime Communications]]) is the largest PR and lobbying company in the UK.

The Chairman of Bell Pottinger is Lord [[Tim Bell]], a friend of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Bell ran the Tory Party's publicity campaigns for the 1979, 1983 and 1987 elections. He was the Deputy Chairman of [[Lowe Howard-Spink and Bell]] alongside [[Frank Lowe]] before founding [[Chime Communications]] in 1989. He got his peerage from [[Tony Blair]] in 1998.

Other ex-Labour Party staff who work or have worked at Bell Pottinger include [[Cathy McGlynn]] (an adviser to [[Jack Cunningham]] when he was Agriculture Secretary), [[Amanda Clow]] (from Tony Blair's office before the 1997 election), [[Amanda Francis]] (a former adviser to [[Mo Mowlam]]), [[Jav Chavda]] (a former researcher for the '[[Rapid Rebuttal Unit]]') and [[Nick Williams]] (a researcher for [[David Clark]]).

==Pro-Nuclear Work==
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Bell Pottinger have a history of nuclear clients:

In the late 1990s and up until 2002, [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]] was the main PR company providing strategic corporate communications advice for [[BNFL]]. In 2002, Bell Pottinger lost the account, although it still provides financial PR services and ad hoc project services, through the sister company Bell Pottinger Communications. <ref>H. Williams, 'BNFL Takes On Finsbury As Dewhurst Wraps Up Revamp', ''PR Week'', 5 July, 2002.</ref> <ref>P. Simpson, 'WSW Picks Up BNFL Public Affairs Work', ''PR Week'', 22 April, 2002</ref>

In 2004/05 Bell Pottinger received £24,000 from [[Nirex]] to "Provide commmunications advice related to the [[Nirex]] pension scheme." <ref>David Wild, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/9/94/Jean.PDF Freedom of Information Request, Letter to Jean McSorley, Senior Advisor to Greenpeace UK], 15 July 2005.</ref>

In November / December 2005, ''Private Eye'' revealed that Bell Pottinger was receiving £8,000 a month to give strategic advice to the [[Nuclear Decommissioning Authority]]. The Eye noted: " Why is the Bell Pottinger PR firm passing on potted biographies of MPs focusing on their supposed attitude to nuclear power to the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (NDA)? The NDA's job, after all, is to clean up the mess left by the old atomic generation, not to promote new nuclear power stations."

The Eye noted: "The files certainly give the impression that Bell Pottinger thinks the NDA is part of the cosy nuclear club rather than a body charged with sorting out some of the worst problems created by the industry. In its bidding document Bell Pottinger emphasised that its chairman [[Kevin Murray]] 'worked on the BNFL account during a tumultuous four-year period'. It also said Bell Pottinger director [[Tim Walker]] was a 'former special adviser to [[Jack Cunningham]]' when he was a very pro-nuclear MP and spent 'more than a decade closely involved in the politics of the nuclear industry'. <ref>[http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1934 SpinWatch website]</ref>

Using the Freedom of Information Act, NuclearSpin has obtained a copy of Bell Pottinger's pitch to the NDA. It underlines the extent of the companies involvement with the nuclear industry. It states that Bell Pottinger's consultants "have worked in a variety of capacities with the nuclear industry. These include:

* Providing strategic advice and support for the Chairman and Chief Executive of BNFL including crisis management
* Advising BNFL on corporate and financial communications
* Developing day-to-day public affairs programmes for BNFL and the BNIF
* Working with Parliamentarians with interests in the nuclear industry
* Monitoring and tracking nuclear issues ranging from Parliamentary committees to public enquiries
* Directly managing the in-house communications for the [[UKAEA]] and [[AEA Technology]] through privatisation
* Briefing and rehearsing industry executives appearing before Select Committees." <ref>Bell Pottinger Communications, in FOIA release from NDA to NuclearSpin, February 2006.</ref>

The NDA's briefing paper for potential PR consultants boasts that the "NDA is not unique in being an organisation committed to open and transparent engagement with stakeholders, but it may well be the first organisation that has such objectives built in to its statutory requirements". Nevertheless, Bell Pottinger's successful pitch includes:

* "Advising on the handling of particular announcements identifying the issues and bear traps in advance, advising on messaging, media strategy and tactics, questions and answers"
* "Advising on an appropriate contact programme ie who are the journalists that should be courted, what are their issues, how best to handle them"
* "Providing off the record information". <ref>FOIA, ibid.</ref>

== General Augusto Pinochet ==
In 1998 the former Chilean dictator, General [[Augusto Pinochet]], was arrested in London at the request of Spanish prosecutes requesting his extradition on murder charges. <ref> BBC News, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/195413.stm World: Europe Pinochet arrested in London], 17th October 1998, accessed 18th December 2011 </ref> At the time Pinochet, who died in 2006, was a Chilean senator who had claimed diplomatic immunity for the murder of Spanish citizens between 1973-1990. <ref> BBC News, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/195413.stm World: Europe Pinochet arrested in London], 17th October 1998, accessed 18th December 2011 </ref>

As Richard Wilson points out in his blog [[Bell Pottinger Communications]] relationship with brutal regimes has a longer history than recent contracts with Belarus and Sri Lanka "Bell Pottinger were paid apologists for the brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, lobbying hard to help the General evade justice after he was arrested in the UK on torture charges in 1998." <ref> Richard Wilson, [http://richardwilsonauthor.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/pinochet-bell-pottinger-and-reconciliation/ Pinochet, Bell Pottinger, and “reconciliation”] accessed 18th December 2011 </ref>

In 1999 New Internationalist reported that defenders of Pinochet in the [[Chilean Reconciliation Movement]], a UK based organisation, were paying [[Bell Pottinger Communications]] to mount a defence of the former dictator in a $310,000 contract. [[Bell Pottinger Communications]] had worked on the 1989 presidential campaign of [[Hernan Buchi]], Pinochet's former finance minister and candidate in Chile’s first presidential elections since 1970.

:"Bell Pottinger has sent 14 postcards, in the name of the Chilean Reconciliation Movement, to 5,000 British ‘opinion makers’ (including the heads of the top 2,000 corporations, the members of the Houses of Commons and Lords, and the major news media)"

:[[Tim Bell]]’s public-relations expertise was also employed for a televised meeting between Pinochet and [[Margaret Thatcher]] in the house where the ex-dictator is confined. The meeting was arranged by [[Robin Harris]], a senior advisor to Thatcher. Harris has also produced and sent to over 5,000 UK ‘opinion formers’ (the same 5,000 as the postcards, perhaps?) a paper entitled ‘A Tale of Two Chileans: Pinochet and Allende’. Harris’s paper rehearses the same accusation as the postcards – President Allende had planned a ‘self-coup’ with dictatorial aims. Over half of the paper’s footnotes cite a document produced by the dictatorship with CIA assistance shortly after the military coup. Harris also promises shortly an appendix detailing ‘Plan Z,’ the fictitious plot under which Allende and his associates were to eliminate an extensive list of enemies including prominent members of the armed forces." <ref> Alejandro Reuss, [http://www.newint.org/features/1999/07/05/peddling/ Peddling Miracles And Amnesia] issue 314 - July 1999, accessed 18th December 2011 </ref>

==Sri Lanka==
In 2010 the BBC reported that a Sri Lankan government source had hired Bell Pottinger Group to try to enhance Sri Lanka's post-war image for a fee of £3 million a year. The work has involved lobbying UK, UN and EU officials on a range of issues, including assisting Sri Lanka's attempts to prevent the UN secretary general appointing an advisory panel on alleged war crimes committed during the country's civil war.

Bell Pottinger also helped promote the UK visit of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Prof [[GL Peiris]] who gave the keynote speech at London's [[International Institute of Strategic Studies]] in October 2010. <ref> Saroj Pathirana , [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11606899 Sri Lanka 'pays PR firm £3m to boost post-war image'], BBC Sinhala Service, ''BBC News South Asia'' website, 22 October 2010, acc 15 November 2013 </ref>

==Relationship with Bahrain Government==

Bell Pottinger has held a number of contracts with the Bahrain Government. In 2009 The Economic Development Board (EDB) of Bahrain appointed Bell Pottinger to handle its global FDI (foreign direct investment)with a contract believed to be worth a seven-figure sum in pounds annually <ref> [http://www.prweek.com/article/873574/bahrain-passes-brief-bell-pottinger],"Bahrain passes brief on to Bell Pottinger", accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>. Bell Pottinger also contracted [[Qorvis]] to carry out public relations work in the US for Bahrain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2010. <ref> [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406325-5483-exhibit-ab-20100806-22.html],accessed 18 November 2012, </ref>.

Bell Pottinger's work in Bahrain came under pressure in February 2011 for holding the contracts even after the killing of seven protesters in a police crackdown on the anti-regime campaign <ref> [http://www.prweek.com/article/1057005/bell-pottingers-work-bahrain-government-spotlight], "Bell Pottinger's work for Bahrain Government under the spotlight", accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>. Following this pressure Bell Pottinger suspended some of its contracts, including the EDB one <ref>, [http://www.prweek.com/article/1064256/bell-pottingers-bahrain-brief-suspended-amid-countrys-crisis], "Bell Pottinger's Bahrain brief suspended amid country's crisis", accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>.

However, this disengagement did not last long as in May 2011, Bell Pottinger was awarded a contract worth US$ 199,000 by Bahrain's Information Affairs Authority for an undefined period of time. <ref> [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406923-bahrain-tenders-may2011.html#document/p12/a66758], accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>. In July 2011, the government's holding company Mumtalakat renewed a contract with Bell Pottinger, worth US$ 853,000 for a period of one year. <ref> [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406909-bahrain-tenders-jul2011.html#document/p16/a66759], accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>. In January 2012, Bahrain's Economic Development Board awarded Bell Pottinger with a renewed contract for over US$ 10.5 million for a period of two years. <ref> [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406907-bahrain-tenders-jan2012.html#document/p14/a66760], accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>. In May 2012 Bell Pottinger's contract with the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution was renewed for a year for about $ 367,000. <ref>, [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/408447-bahrain-tender-may2012.html#document/p16/a67354], accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>. The information about these contracts have been taken from the website of the government's Tender Board, and there may be other contracts that are not yet listed.

According to a posting on the website of the Bahraini government’s Tender Board in October 2012, Bell Pottinger has made bids for the tendered public relations contract. <ref> [http://www.tenderboard.gov.bh/Tendering/Reports/OpenedTendersReport.aspx?TenderID=224886], accessed 18 November 2013. </ref> Exact details of the services required by the Bahraini government have not been made public, other than that it involves “PR services” for the Economic Development Board (EDB).

==Refusal to join the Association of Professional Political Consultants==
Update: Bell Pottinger finally joined the [[PRCA]], the rival trade assocation to the [[APPC]], in March 2010<ref>PRCA, [http://www.prca.org.uk/%5CBPPAjoins press release], March 2010</ref>

In February 2008, it emerged that Bell Pottinger was one of three agencies refusing to join the [[APPC]], following a committee inquiry chaired by Labour MP [[Tony Wright]]. Despite attempting to "make amends" by drawing up its own code of conduct, the controversy surrounding Bell Pottinger's steadfast refusal to register resulted in chairman [[Peter Bingle]] giving evidence to MPs at the Public Administration Select Committee.<ref>Staff writers, "[http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/search/785709/Lobbying-inquiry-zooms-APPC-non-members/ Lobbying inquiry zooms in on APPC non-members]", ''PR Week UK'', 21.02.08, accessed 10.09.10</ref>

==Personnel==
*[[Jonathan Oates]] – Director
*[[Claire Cater]], Group Director. Claire leads the Group’s public sector work which typically includes media, public affairs, advertising, marketing, medical education, stakeholder engagement, digital and publishing.
*[[David Wilson]] - chairman. In July 2011 Wilson was appointed by [[Rebekah Brooks]]' lawyers following her resignation as [[News International]] chief executive and subsequent arrest over the phone-hacking scandal. <ref> Sara Luker, [http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/1080522/Rebekah-Brooks-hires-Bell-Pottinger-chairman-David-Wilson-handle-media Rebekah Brooks hires Bell Pottinger chairman David Wilson to handle media], prweek.com, 18 July 2011, 8:55am </ref>

===Former staff===
**[[Peter Bingle]], was previously Chair, left the company in 2012 to set up as an independent consultant

==Subsidiaries==
[[Bell Pottinger Corporate and Financial]] | [[Bell Pottinger Good Relations]] | [[Bell Pottinger International]] | [[Bell Pottinger North]] | [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]] | [[Bell Pottinger Public Sector Health]] | [[Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres]] | [[Bell Pottinger Sport and Sponsorship]] | [[Bell Pottinger USA]] | [[QBO Bell Pottinger]] | [[Bell Pottinger Security]] | [[Bell Pottinger Special Projects]] | [[Bell Pottinger Middle East]] | [[Pelham Bell Pottinger]] - corporate and financial public relations | [[Pelham Bell Pottinger Asia]] | [[Harvard]] | [[Harvard GmBH]] | [[Corporate Citizenship Company]] | [[Resonate]] | [[Insight]] | [[MMK]] | [[BMT]] | [[Ptarmigan Bell Pottinger]]

==Clients==
'''December 2010 to February 2011'''
:[[Alstom Power]] | [[Anadarko]] | [[Ascertiva]] | [[Aspers ]] | [[Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers]] | [[Astrazeneca]] | [[BAE Systems]] | [[BACTA]] | [[Bank of Ireland]] | [[Berkeley Homes]] | [[BT MPP ]] | [[Canary Wharf]] | [[Capital One Partners]] | [[Carlyle Group ]] | [[Citibank NA]] | [[Constellation]] | [[Courtauld Institute]] |[[Deloitte ]] | [[Derwent London]]| [[Eclipse Hotels]] | [[Emirates]] | [[Equitable Members Action Group]] | [[Fluor]] | [[Food and Drink Federation]] | [[Frasers – Camberwell]] | [[Global Warming Policy Foundation]] | [[Government of Bahrain]] | [[GSG Holdings]] | [[Historic Royal Palaces]] | [[HomeSun]] | [[Imperial Tobacco]] | [[Inmarsat ]] | [[Jacobs]] | [[Kellogg’s]] | [[Ladbrokes ]] | [[Law Society]] | [[Mercedes-Benz ]] | [[Motor Sports Association]] | [[National Grid Commercial]] | [[National Grid Property]] | [[Park Group]] | [[Permira]] | [[Places for People]] |[[Port of Dover]] | [[Port of London Authority]] | [[Press Complaints Commission]] | [[Provident Financial]] | [[Red Bull]] |[[Rio Tinto]] |[[Rolls Royce]] | [[Royalton Ltd]] | [[Stannah]] | [[St James]] | [[Sunderland City Council]] | [[TAG Farnborough Airport]] | [[Tottenham Hotspur FC]] | [[Treasury Holdings]] | [[University and College Union]] | [[Visteon]] | [[Voreda – Woodlands]] | [[Waitrose]] <ref> PCRA, [http://www.prca.org.uk/assets/files/AboutUs/Files/PRCA%20Public%20Affairs%20Register%20Dec%202010-Feb%202011.pdf PRCA Public Affairs Register – December 2010 to February 2011] accessed 7th December 2011 </ref>

Bell Pottinger's past clients have included:
:[[Nike]] | [[BSkyB]] | [[Natwest]] | [[BNFL]] | [[BP]] | [[AEA Technology]] | [[GlaxoSmithKline]] |[[Prudential]] | [[BAE Systems]]<ref>David Singleton, Bell Potinger sets sights on security industry, PRWeek, 14 December 2007, p. 1.</ref> | [[Rolls Royce]] |<ref>Singleton, ibid.</ref>[[MBDA]] | <ref>Singleton, ibid.</ref> | [[Libyan National Council]] - although no contract had yet been signed in June 2011, according to Lord Bell: "Bits and pieces are going on,’ ... ‘We are involved in it all, but no one has made any decision and contract. At the moment, the work we are doing for them is informal. Whether we will get in a situation with people in which it will come to something, I’m not sure."<ref name="Libyan"> Matt Cartmell, [http://www.prweek.com/news/rss/1073892/Bell-Pottinger-aids-anti-Gaddafi-Libyan-National-Transitional-Council/ Bell Pottinger Aids Anti-Gaddafi Libyan National Transitional Council], ''PRWeek'', 08 June 2011, accessed 15 June 2011 </ref> | [[Mohammed El Senussi]], the exiled ‘crown prince’ of Libya (since 1988)<ref name="Libyan"/> | [[Economic Development Board of Bahrain]] - remit was expanded to support the government of Bahrain during uprisings earlier in 2011.<ref name="Libyan"/>

==Contact, References and Resources==
===Contact===
:Website: [http://www.bell-pottinger.co.uk/ www.bell-pottinger.co.uk]

===External Resources===
*Melanie Newman, Oliver Wright, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/caught-on-camera-top-lobbyists-boasting-how-they-influence-the-pm-6272760.html Caught on camera: top lobbyists boasting how they influence the PM], ''Independent'', 5 December 2011.

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:Nuclear PR, lobbying and consultancy firms]]
[[Category:Nuclear Spin]][[Category:Financial sector lobbying]][[Category:Sri Lanka]]

Bell Pottinger Communications

2013-11-18T13:09:08Z

Matthew Burnett-Stuart:

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'''Bell Pottinger Communications''' (a subsidiary of [[Chime Communications]]) is the largest PR and lobbying company in the UK.

The Chairman of Bell Pottinger is Lord [[Tim Bell]], a friend of former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Bell ran the Tory Party's publicity campaigns for the 1979, 1983 and 1987 elections. He was the Deputy Chairman of [[Lowe Howard-Spink and Bell]] alongside [[Frank Lowe]] before founding [[Chime Communications]] in 1989. He got his peerage from [[Tony Blair]] in 1998.

Other ex-Labour Party staff who work or have worked at Bell Pottinger include [[Cathy McGlynn]] (an adviser to [[Jack Cunningham]] when he was Agriculture Secretary), [[Amanda Clow]] (from Tony Blair's office before the 1997 election), [[Amanda Francis]] (a former adviser to [[Mo Mowlam]]), [[Jav Chavda]] (a former researcher for the '[[Rapid Rebuttal Unit]]') and [[Nick Williams]] (a researcher for [[David Clark]]).

==Pro-Nuclear Work==
{{Template:NuclearSpin}}
Bell Pottinger have a history of nuclear clients:

In the late 1990s and up until 2002, [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]] was the main PR company providing strategic corporate communications advice for [[BNFL]]. In 2002, Bell Pottinger lost the account, although it still provides financial PR services and ad hoc project services, through the sister company Bell Pottinger Communications. <ref>H. Williams, 'BNFL Takes On Finsbury As Dewhurst Wraps Up Revamp', ''PR Week'', 5 July, 2002.</ref> <ref>P. Simpson, 'WSW Picks Up BNFL Public Affairs Work', ''PR Week'', 22 April, 2002</ref>

In 2004/05 Bell Pottinger received £24,000 from [[Nirex]] to "Provide commmunications advice related to the [[Nirex]] pension scheme." <ref>David Wild, [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/9/94/Jean.PDF Freedom of Information Request, Letter to Jean McSorley, Senior Advisor to Greenpeace UK], 15 July 2005.</ref>

In November / December 2005, ''Private Eye'' revealed that Bell Pottinger was receiving £8,000 a month to give strategic advice to the [[Nuclear Decommissioning Authority]]. The Eye noted: " Why is the Bell Pottinger PR firm passing on potted biographies of MPs focusing on their supposed attitude to nuclear power to the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (NDA)? The NDA's job, after all, is to clean up the mess left by the old atomic generation, not to promote new nuclear power stations."

The Eye noted: "The files certainly give the impression that Bell Pottinger thinks the NDA is part of the cosy nuclear club rather than a body charged with sorting out some of the worst problems created by the industry. In its bidding document Bell Pottinger emphasised that its chairman [[Kevin Murray]] 'worked on the BNFL account during a tumultuous four-year period'. It also said Bell Pottinger director [[Tim Walker]] was a 'former special adviser to [[Jack Cunningham]]' when he was a very pro-nuclear MP and spent 'more than a decade closely involved in the politics of the nuclear industry'. <ref>[http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1934 SpinWatch website]</ref>

Using the Freedom of Information Act, NuclearSpin has obtained a copy of Bell Pottinger's pitch to the NDA. It underlines the extent of the companies involvement with the nuclear industry. It states that Bell Pottinger's consultants "have worked in a variety of capacities with the nuclear industry. These include:

* Providing strategic advice and support for the Chairman and Chief Executive of BNFL including crisis management
* Advising BNFL on corporate and financial communications
* Developing day-to-day public affairs programmes for BNFL and the BNIF
* Working with Parliamentarians with interests in the nuclear industry
* Monitoring and tracking nuclear issues ranging from Parliamentary committees to public enquiries
* Directly managing the in-house communications for the [[UKAEA]] and [[AEA Technology]] through privatisation
* Briefing and rehearsing industry executives appearing before Select Committees." <ref>Bell Pottinger Communications, in FOIA release from NDA to NuclearSpin, February 2006.</ref>

The NDA's briefing paper for potential PR consultants boasts that the "NDA is not unique in being an organisation committed to open and transparent engagement with stakeholders, but it may well be the first organisation that has such objectives built in to its statutory requirements". Nevertheless, Bell Pottinger's successful pitch includes:

* "Advising on the handling of particular announcements identifying the issues and bear traps in advance, advising on messaging, media strategy and tactics, questions and answers"
* "Advising on an appropriate contact programme ie who are the journalists that should be courted, what are their issues, how best to handle them"
* "Providing off the record information". <ref>FOIA, ibid.</ref>

== General Augusto Pinochet ==
In 1998 the former Chilean dictator, General [[Augusto Pinochet]], was arrested in London at the request of Spanish prosecutes requesting his extradition on murder charges. <ref> BBC News, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/195413.stm World: Europe Pinochet arrested in London], 17th October 1998, accessed 18th December 2011 </ref> At the time Pinochet, who died in 2006, was a Chilean senator who had claimed diplomatic immunity for the murder of Spanish citizens between 1973-1990. <ref> BBC News, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/195413.stm World: Europe Pinochet arrested in London], 17th October 1998, accessed 18th December 2011 </ref>

As Richard Wilson points out in his blog [[Bell Pottinger Communications]] relationship with brutal regimes has a longer history than recent contracts with Belarus and Sri Lanka "Bell Pottinger were paid apologists for the brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, lobbying hard to help the General evade justice after he was arrested in the UK on torture charges in 1998." <ref> Richard Wilson, [http://richardwilsonauthor.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/pinochet-bell-pottinger-and-reconciliation/ Pinochet, Bell Pottinger, and “reconciliation”] accessed 18th December 2011 </ref>

In 1999 New Internationalist reported that defenders of Pinochet in the [[Chilean Reconciliation Movement]], a UK based organisation, were paying [[Bell Pottinger Communications]] to mount a defence of the former dictator in a $310,000 contract. [[Bell Pottinger Communications]] had worked on the 1989 presidential campaign of [[Hernan Buchi]], Pinochet's former finance minister and candidate in Chile’s first presidential elections since 1970.

:"Bell Pottinger has sent 14 postcards, in the name of the Chilean Reconciliation Movement, to 5,000 British ‘opinion makers’ (including the heads of the top 2,000 corporations, the members of the Houses of Commons and Lords, and the major news media)"

:[[Tim Bell]]’s public-relations expertise was also employed for a televised meeting between Pinochet and [[Margaret Thatcher]] in the house where the ex-dictator is confined. The meeting was arranged by [[Robin Harris]], a senior advisor to Thatcher. Harris has also produced and sent to over 5,000 UK ‘opinion formers’ (the same 5,000 as the postcards, perhaps?) a paper entitled ‘A Tale of Two Chileans: Pinochet and Allende’. Harris’s paper rehearses the same accusation as the postcards – President Allende had planned a ‘self-coup’ with dictatorial aims. Over half of the paper’s footnotes cite a document produced by the dictatorship with CIA assistance shortly after the military coup. Harris also promises shortly an appendix detailing ‘Plan Z,’ the fictitious plot under which Allende and his associates were to eliminate an extensive list of enemies including prominent members of the armed forces." <ref> Alejandro Reuss, [http://www.newint.org/features/1999/07/05/peddling/ Peddling Miracles And Amnesia] issue 314 - July 1999, accessed 18th December 2011 </ref>

==Sri Lanka==
In 2010 the BBC reported that a Sri Lankan government source had hired Bell Pottinger Group to try to enhance Sri Lanka's post-war image for a fee of £3 million a year. The work has involved lobbying UK, UN and EU officials on a range of issues, including assisting Sri Lanka's attempts to prevent the UN secretary general appointing an advisory panel on alleged war crimes committed during the country's civil war.

Bell Pottinger also helped promote the UK visit of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Prof [[GL Peiris]] who gave the keynote speech at London's [[International Institute of Strategic Studies]] in October 2010. <ref> Saroj Pathirana , [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11606899 Sri Lanka 'pays PR firm £3m to boost post-war image'], BBC Sinhala Service, ''BBC News South Asia'' website, 22 October 2010, acc 15 November 2013 </ref>

==Relationship with Bahrain Government==

Bell Pottinger has held a number of contracts with the Bahrain Government. In 2009 The Economic Development Board (EDB) of Bahrain appointed Bell Pottinger to handle its global FDI (foreign direct investment)with a contract believed to be worth a seven-figure sum in pounds annually <ref> [http://www.prweek.com/article/873574/bahrain-passes-brief-bell-pottinger],"Bahrain passes brief on to Bell Pottinger", accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>. Bell Pottinger also contracted [[Qorvis]] to carry out public relations work in the US for Bahrain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2010. <ref> [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406325-5483-exhibit-ab-20100806-22.html],accessed 18 November 2012, </ref>.

Bell Pottinger's work in Bahrain came under pressure in February 2011 for holding the contracts even after the killing of seven protesters in a police crackdown on the anti-regime campaign <ref> [http://www.prweek.com/article/1057005/bell-pottingers-work-bahrain-government-spotlight], "Bell Pottinger's work for Bahrain Government under the spotlight", accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>. Following this pressure Bell Pottinger suspended some of its contracts, including the EDB one <ref>, [http://www.prweek.com/article/1064256/bell-pottingers-bahrain-brief-suspended-amid-countrys-crisis], "Bell Pottinger's Bahrain brief suspended amid country's crisis", accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>.

However, this disengagement did not last long as in May 2011, Bell Pottinger was awarded a contract worth US$ 199,000 by Bahrain's Information Affairs Authority for an undefined period of time. <ref> [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406923-bahrain-tenders-may2011.html#document/p12/a66758], accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>. In July 2011, the government's holding company Mumtalakat renewed a contract with Bell Pottinger, worth US$ 853,000 for a period of one year. <ref> [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406909-bahrain-tenders-jul2011.html#document/p16/a66759], accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>. In January 2012, Bahrain's Economic Development Board awarded Bell Pottinger with a renewed contract for over US$ 10.5 million for a period of two years. <ref> [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/406907-bahrain-tenders-jan2012.html#document/p14/a66760], accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>. In May 2012 Bell Pottinger's contract with the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution was renewed for a year for about $ 367,000. <ref>, [http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/408447-bahrain-tender-may2012.html#document/p16/a67354], accessed 18 November 2013, </ref>. The information about these contracts have been taken from the website of the government's Tender Board, and there may be other contracts that are not yet listed.

==Refusal to join the Association of Professional Political Consultants==
Update: Bell Pottinger finally joined the [[PRCA]], the rival trade assocation to the [[APPC]], in March 2010<ref>PRCA, [http://www.prca.org.uk/%5CBPPAjoins press release], March 2010</ref>

In February 2008, it emerged that Bell Pottinger was one of three agencies refusing to join the [[APPC]], following a committee inquiry chaired by Labour MP [[Tony Wright]]. Despite attempting to "make amends" by drawing up its own code of conduct, the controversy surrounding Bell Pottinger's steadfast refusal to register resulted in chairman [[Peter Bingle]] giving evidence to MPs at the Public Administration Select Committee.<ref>Staff writers, "[http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/search/785709/Lobbying-inquiry-zooms-APPC-non-members/ Lobbying inquiry zooms in on APPC non-members]", ''PR Week UK'', 21.02.08, accessed 10.09.10</ref>

==Personnel==
*[[Jonathan Oates]] – Director
*[[Claire Cater]], Group Director. Claire leads the Group’s public sector work which typically includes media, public affairs, advertising, marketing, medical education, stakeholder engagement, digital and publishing.
*[[David Wilson]] - chairman. In July 2011 Wilson was appointed by [[Rebekah Brooks]]' lawyers following her resignation as [[News International]] chief executive and subsequent arrest over the phone-hacking scandal. <ref> Sara Luker, [http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/1080522/Rebekah-Brooks-hires-Bell-Pottinger-chairman-David-Wilson-handle-media Rebekah Brooks hires Bell Pottinger chairman David Wilson to handle media], prweek.com, 18 July 2011, 8:55am </ref>

===Former staff===
**[[Peter Bingle]], was previously Chair, left the company in 2012 to set up as an independent consultant

==Subsidiaries==
[[Bell Pottinger Corporate and Financial]] | [[Bell Pottinger Good Relations]] | [[Bell Pottinger International]] | [[Bell Pottinger North]] | [[Bell Pottinger Public Affairs]] | [[Bell Pottinger Public Sector Health]] | [[Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres]] | [[Bell Pottinger Sport and Sponsorship]] | [[Bell Pottinger USA]] | [[QBO Bell Pottinger]] | [[Bell Pottinger Security]] | [[Bell Pottinger Special Projects]] | [[Bell Pottinger Middle East]] | [[Pelham Bell Pottinger]] - corporate and financial public relations | [[Pelham Bell Pottinger Asia]] | [[Harvard]] | [[Harvard GmBH]] | [[Corporate Citizenship Company]] | [[Resonate]] | [[Insight]] | [[MMK]] | [[BMT]] | [[Ptarmigan Bell Pottinger]]

==Clients==
'''December 2010 to February 2011'''
:[[Alstom Power]] | [[Anadarko]] | [[Ascertiva]] | [[Aspers ]] | [[Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers]] | [[Astrazeneca]] | [[BAE Systems]] | [[BACTA]] | [[Bank of Ireland]] | [[Berkeley Homes]] | [[BT MPP ]] | [[Canary Wharf]] | [[Capital One Partners]] | [[Carlyle Group ]] | [[Citibank NA]] | [[Constellation]] | [[Courtauld Institute]] |[[Deloitte ]] | [[Derwent London]]| [[Eclipse Hotels]] | [[Emirates]] | [[Equitable Members Action Group]] | [[Fluor]] | [[Food and Drink Federation]] | [[Frasers – Camberwell]] | [[Global Warming Policy Foundation]] | [[Government of Bahrain]] | [[GSG Holdings]] | [[Historic Royal Palaces]] | [[HomeSun]] | [[Imperial Tobacco]] | [[Inmarsat ]] | [[Jacobs]] | [[Kellogg’s]] | [[Ladbrokes ]] | [[Law Society]] | [[Mercedes-Benz ]] | [[Motor Sports Association]] | [[National Grid Commercial]] | [[National Grid Property]] | [[Park Group]] | [[Permira]] | [[Places for People]] |[[Port of Dover]] | [[Port of London Authority]] | [[Press Complaints Commission]] | [[Provident Financial]] | [[Red Bull]] |[[Rio Tinto]] |[[Rolls Royce]] | [[Royalton Ltd]] | [[Stannah]] | [[St James]] | [[Sunderland City Council]] | [[TAG Farnborough Airport]] | [[Tottenham Hotspur FC]] | [[Treasury Holdings]] | [[University and College Union]] | [[Visteon]] | [[Voreda – Woodlands]] | [[Waitrose]] <ref> PCRA, [http://www.prca.org.uk/assets/files/AboutUs/Files/PRCA%20Public%20Affairs%20Register%20Dec%202010-Feb%202011.pdf PRCA Public Affairs Register – December 2010 to February 2011] accessed 7th December 2011 </ref>

Bell Pottinger's past clients have included:
:[[Nike]] | [[BSkyB]] | [[Natwest]] | [[BNFL]] | [[BP]] | [[AEA Technology]] | [[GlaxoSmithKline]] |[[Prudential]] | [[BAE Systems]]<ref>David Singleton, Bell Potinger sets sights on security industry, PRWeek, 14 December 2007, p. 1.</ref> | [[Rolls Royce]] |<ref>Singleton, ibid.</ref>[[MBDA]] | <ref>Singleton, ibid.</ref> | [[Libyan National Council]] - although no contract had yet been signed in June 2011, according to Lord Bell: "Bits and pieces are going on,’ ... ‘We are involved in it all, but no one has made any decision and contract. At the moment, the work we are doing for them is informal. Whether we will get in a situation with people in which it will come to something, I’m not sure."<ref name="Libyan"> Matt Cartmell, [http://www.prweek.com/news/rss/1073892/Bell-Pottinger-aids-anti-Gaddafi-Libyan-National-Transitional-Council/ Bell Pottinger Aids Anti-Gaddafi Libyan National Transitional Council], ''PRWeek'', 08 June 2011, accessed 15 June 2011 </ref> | [[Mohammed El Senussi]], the exiled ‘crown prince’ of Libya (since 1988)<ref name="Libyan"/> | [[Economic Development Board of Bahrain]] - remit was expanded to support the government of Bahrain during uprisings earlier in 2011.<ref name="Libyan"/>

==Contact, References and Resources==
===Contact===
:Website: [http://www.bell-pottinger.co.uk/ www.bell-pottinger.co.uk]

===External Resources===
*Melanie Newman, Oliver Wright, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/caught-on-camera-top-lobbyists-boasting-how-they-influence-the-pm-6272760.html Caught on camera: top lobbyists boasting how they influence the PM], ''Independent'', 5 December 2011.

==Notes==
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