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Revision as of 12:57, 21 February 2014

Not to be confused with the New Delhi based Public Interest Foundation

The Public Interest Foundation is a charitable foundation associated with the Jabbar Group. It was set up on 19 February 2007 with two directors: Imran Khand, a Glasgow based businessman and New Labour donor, and Willie Sullivan, a Fife Labour councillor and New Labour networker who was subsequently part of the group Compass.[1] Its website makes it appear to be a progressive campaigning organisation, though it also claims an expertise in 'lobbying'.

Activities

The PIF 'supported and provided some of the secretariat for the British All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Tackling Terrorism.' [2] The PIF sponsors the Journal of Global Policy and the Centre for Global Policy at the London School of Economics.[3] |

People

Is Griffiths a director?

In his entry in the Register of Members Interests Griffiths claims that he is a remunerated director of the Foundation. The precise wording in Griffiths register of interests is 'Remunerated directorships: The Jabbar Group and Public Interest Foundation (non-executive); an infrastructure company and associated charitable foundation.'[7] This is odd as Griffiths is not registered as a director of Public Interest Foundation and in its accounts of February 2008 it declares that it did no business and has no resources.[8]

Advisers

Claims to have a 'Global Advisory board' but no list of its members on the website at the end of February 2009. Prof. David Held [9]|

Donations to Civitas

The Public Interest Foundation provided a total of £18,000 to Civitas between April 2007 and April 2009[10] and donated £10,000 to the think-tank in 2010.[11]

Affiliations

Use Maclay, Murray and Spens of St Vincent Street, Glasgow as lawyers and Company Secretary.[12]

Contact

Notes

  1. ↑ Certificate of Incorporation of a Private Limited Company, company No. 6115626, Public Interest Foundation Limited, Given at Companies House 19 February 2007
  2. ↑ http://www.publicinterestfoundation.org/
  3. ↑ Public Interest Foundation Organisation, accessed 26 February 2009
  4. ↑ Companies House 30/06/2008 DIRECTOR APPOINTED WALTER HECHT
  5. ↑ Companies House 19/11/2008 DIRECTOR APPOINTED AZIZA KHAND
  6. ↑ Companies House, 30/06/2008 DIRECTOR RESIGNED IMRAN KHAND
  7. ↑ UK Parliament, Register of Members' Interests, accessed 25 November 2008.
  8. ↑ Public Interest Foundation Abbreviated financial Statements for the period ended 29 February 2008
  9. ↑ Public Interest Foundation Organisation, accessed 26 February 2009
  10. ↑ A full list of donors is provided by Portillo in the Register of Members’ Interests Session 2001-02 at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmregmem/memi22.htm
  11. ↑ Dominic Kennedy, ‘Lord Ashcroft, David Cameron and the “missing” £10,000 gift’, TimesOnline, 29 August 2009. Available at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6814380.ece
  12. ↑ Certificate of Incorporation of a Private Limited Company, company No. 6115626, Public Interest Foundation Limited, Given at Companies House 19 February 2007
  13. ↑ PIF contact, accessed 26 November 2008
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