The Hintze Family Charitable Foundation
The Hintze Family Charitable Foundation (Charity No: 1101842) is a charity registered in England and Wales with the Charity Commission.
Contents
People
Staff
- Dorothy Hintze Chief Executive
Secretary
- Kate Rees-Doherty - 2019 - resigned 6 January 2021
- Gemma Rooney - appointed 6 January 2021-resigned 12 December 2021
- Michael Bisson - appointed 12 December 2021
Trustees
- Michael Hintze 2005-2022
- Duncan Baxter appointed 13 January 2015 - reappointed 12 January 2021
- Sir Michael Peat - appointed 13 march 2014, reappointed 20 January 2020
Former trustees
- Alexander Marcham - appointed 12 December 2021, resigned 27 May 2022
- Nicholas Hunt From 2005 at least - resigned 24 May 2010
- David Swain From 2005 at least to 2012 at least
- Brian Hannon- appointed l9 April 2010
- Kam Lynn Wong - resigned 2 August 2007
- Adam Sorab - appointed 3 January 2013
- Steve Walters - appointed 7 February 2007
Donations
- Institute of Economic Affairs - 2005, 2012, .
- Atlantic Bridge - 2011.
Liam Fox and Atlantic Bridge
Hintze was caught up in the 2011 scandal involving then defence secretary Liam Fox and his friend and self-styled adviser, Adam Werritty.
Hintze had funded Fox's charity Atlantic Bridge, which was at the centre of the scandal. According to the Guardian, the accounts for former Defence Secretary Liam Fox's defunct charity Atlantic Bridge "show that £104,000 – or 58 per cent of the charities voluntary income – had come from one source: the Hintze Family Foundation." The paper concluded that if Adam Werritty drew a salary as executive director of the Atlantic Bridge, the money would in practice be largely coming from Hintze.[1]
Hintze had also provided Werritty with desk space at CQS' London office.[2]
One of Hintze’s employees, Oliver Hylton, was also the sole director of Pargav, the vehicle which funded Adam Werritty following the closure of Atlantic Bridge.[3]
Hylton was also a director of Security Futures which had donated £15,000 to Atlantic Bridge the previous year.[1]
In May 2011 Hintze's company paid an estimated £10,439 for a private jet to fly Liam Fox from Washington to Britain.[4]
In October 2011 the Financial Times reported that CQS had a $21.5 million stake in L-3, a US communications firm which had a contact with the Ministry of Defence. The paper quoted an un-named Tory MP as stating: “Hintze is not motivated by [financial] defence interests,” he said, “but a shared ideological agenda [with Mr Fox]. But perception does matter.”[5]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Simon Bowers, Michael Hintze: Liam Fox backer who helped to bankroll foreign trips, guardian.co.uk, 11 October 2011.
- ↑ Holly Watt, Richard Spencer in Dubai and Robert Winnett, Liam Fox's friend Adam Werritty linked to Conservative donor, Telegraph, 11 October 2011.
- ↑ Sam Jones, James Blitz and Elizabeth Rigby, Tory donor’s links add pressure on Fox, FT.com, 13 October 2011.
- ↑ Tom Ross and Holly Watt, Michael Hintze: the millionaire Tory donor who once said: the more you give, the more you get, Telegraph, 12 October 2011.
- ↑ Sam Jones, James Blitz and Elizabeth Rigby, Tory donor’s links add pressure on Fox, Financial Times, 13 October 2011.
